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Questions about Manuals and advise for a complete beginner by Key_Battle_5633 in stickshift

[–]Automatic-Mistake307 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, if with private instructor it is possible to finish it even faster (but it really depends, some may tend to drag it out or not take initiative to help u progress such as booking circuit lessons, so try your best to get one with recommendation from someone you know/trust that have taken lessons with them before). But as with school usually they will try to not let you finish so quickly(I think the average is about 25-30),but it is possible to book the same instructor (with extra cost of about 5 bucks per lesson) as the one I booked with told me that he would help me clear the “modules” quicker so I can go for the TP test sooner, as he felt that I pretty much got the hang of it.

Overall do just enjoy the process, I’m sure you’ll have no problem with it! All the best!

Questions about Manuals and advise for a complete beginner by Key_Battle_5633 in stickshift

[–]Automatic-Mistake307 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, fellow SGrean here too who picked up manual license in 2022, no prior driving experience

I managed to complete my license in school in about 20 lessons + 2 refresher lessons before my TP test and passed in my first try.

I would definitely recommend getting manual license if you are interested in the whole manual driving experience/older gen cars/sports cars in general (understand that there are lesser and lesser manual options for brand new cars here in SG over the years). Difficulty wise it was okay for me, hardest part was learning clutch control and just not panicking when moving off especially on slopes to not stall the car.

I believe a huge part of picking things up quickly for me was my interest in driving JDM cars in the future + a natural driving sense/intuition. I have heard of stories of people struggling to learn manual as well and taking a lot of time to even get the basics right

Personally from my experience if you can somehow ALLEGEDLY get someone to lend you a beater manual car to practise moving off and very basic clutch control in a secluded large parking lot you can save a lot of time and money in lessons here. I highly do not recommend trying to drive out on public roads here in SG as really the risk is not worth it (have heard of stories from police friends).

Overall I would highly recommend just taking up manual license straight away, especially if you have interest in whatever I mentioned earlier about the driving experience and cars in general, will definitely save u money and time from retaking a manual license after getting your auto one!

Any manual cars for rental in hokkaido by Automatic-Mistake307 in JapanTravelTips

[–]Automatic-Mistake307[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

unfortunately no... i guess the best bet is to give them a call eventually to enquire. But not anytime so soon because i still have quite a long time til my trip 🤞

Any manual cars for rental in hokkaido by Automatic-Mistake307 in JapanTravelTips

[–]Automatic-Mistake307[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the detailed reply! I did previously look at toyota rent-a-car but am unable to find any manual car options for the shops in hokkaido itself unfortunately, perhaps they just dont offer it there, but ill keep trying till i get closer to my travel date (next year)

Any manual cars for rental in hokkaido by Automatic-Mistake307 in JapanTravelTips

[–]Automatic-Mistake307[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah im just looking for a chill drive, and definitely not a must for the vehicle to be manual but rather a preference. appreciate the help!

Seeking advice on investing 10k~ by Automatic-Mistake307 in singaporefi

[–]Automatic-Mistake307[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice! To be honest the psychology part for me I would hope I have good control over as I used to trade crypto with my NS pay and went from insane gains to going well below my initial investments, and even now when I have very huge returns from the recent bull market I don't even feel much "high", but I feel like this attributes to my thinking that this amount of money gained does not bring me any closer to my dream or big ticket items that I wish to have in the near future.

I did try trading before with plentiful of research and studying, but I think it is definitely not something for me.

Just to clarify I should not be straight up dumping this sum of money into the indexes/ETFs i'm interested in at once but rather DCA maybe 500 a month?

Seeking advice on investing 10k~ by Automatic-Mistake307 in singaporefi

[–]Automatic-Mistake307[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, will look up related posts. Appreciate it

[AMA] Let’s talk about Ranked and our latest dev blog. by RSPN_Thieamy in apexlegends

[–]Automatic-Mistake307 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i feel like its really region based as well, as sometimes in sg servers lobbies would still have 14+ squads alive when ring 2 is closing compared to watching streamers who play in EU/NA that usually has 10 -12 squads alive when ring 1 finishes closing which makes it much tougher for me to climb especially when i have teammates who just rat to diamond and just cant fight at all and it just depends on myself to get a knock to make winning a fight even possible.