My manual car ride!

I thought I'd blog about how I came about to transferring from an auto to a manual car. It all started last week on the stand in gig for the "Beauty & the Geek" rehearsal shoot and when the 2nd Assistant Director asked if anyone knew how to drive a manual car and, well...no one did. I didn't know either but a part of me was burning to learn this skill to hopefully put it to use when needed.

So the following day, my thoughts committed to buying a manual car, and with any callings in life, it works. My mum's friend was selling his Holden 2004 Barina for a seriously dirty cheap price and and that time my rego on my current bomb car was running out in three days.
I guess when opportunities present itself, one must seize it, as this same opportunity may not come back. So without have much skill in driving "Manual" cars I risked it; bought the car and decided to D.I.Y learn it via the help of You Tube. This clip is where I solidized my knowledge and understanding of what "manual/ transmission/ driving entails and after taking a few minutes to watch it, I decided to put it to practice.
Unfortunately, at the time, no one was able to help me but I knew I had to move my car to a more secure parking location to avoid any potential damages by passagerby deliquents (trust me, you get slightly paranoid when you own something new). So with my you tubey knowledge, paired with several stalls and strange car shrieks, it finally frog leaped forward (instead of backwards) to its destination.

Interestingly enough, my Dad discourage me from taking on this decision as I recall him saying that its difficult to learn, more dangerous and if I really want to learn, I should hire a professional to teach me 3 months prior to making my purchase.

So my risk taking decision has set me thinking, to change and grow in life, one must put themselves in challenging situations all the time and quickly adapt to it and channel it into something beneficial.

Learning how to drive a manual car (even though its not really a big deal) in a time space of 24 hours is a pretty good achievement that highlights the week. I guess one can do anything if they put their minds to it.

So check out my upgrade ride (courtesy of Mum's late birthday present to me). Also a shout out to Roger (the next door neighbour), Dad, Ali Kadhim (Parkour pal :p) and also Tiffany Lee Shoy for a demo, advice or free post lessons!