if u're thinking of a way to kill a car. maybe i can give you some advice coz i seem to be on a car-killing streak lately.

incident 1
what turned out to be a rewarding dust-sweeping experience turned out to be one of my biggest nightmares. you see, i was quite excited about the new magic-clean duster, so i bought one to clean up the dust that was collecting in the car. so i cleaned cleaned cleaned. then to prove to my mum how effective and wonderful the duster was, i stuck it all the way into my handbrake. and it happened. my detachable duster got stuck INSIDE my handbrake!! omg. so my mum gave me these mini jewellery pincers to kiap it out. oh. then it happened again. the pincers dropped into my handbrake and it got stuck inside too!!
what a disaster! so operation 101 started. we tried to dig it out with our fat fingers, we shone a torchlight(which was rather dim and only slightly helpful. and finally as our last hope, we used the vaccum cleaner, which successfully sucked out the feather duster! BUT the pincers were still stuck inside. so how? hmm. well i tried to drive the car up and down the slope, hoping that the pincers will fall into a spot that will allow us to retrive it easily. oh but no. it kinda disappeared into thin air. i was so worried it would cut my gearbox and send my car spinning while i'm on the PIE.
last resort: we sent it to the servicing centre just now. the technician told us they'll have to dismantle both front seats, the gear box etc etc to take out that tiny pincers. oh dear.
on a slightly brighter note: i drove the car to school yesterday and it seemed perfectly fine.

incident 2
i drove my mum's car to send my bro to camp on sunday night. so while my bro alighted, i pulled up my handbrake. then after driving for about 10minutes on the PIE, i realised my handbrake light was on!! but the funny thing was, the car didn't seem to be encountering much friction. and i tried to push my handbrake down, it was already down. but why was my handbrake light on?
to my horror. i realised that the handbrake was only HALF down!! coz my spectacle case was blocking it!! yes. i felt so stupid. ok i still feel stupid. yar and the worst part is, i was driving at 90km/h with the handbrake half up!!

ok. yar so if you wanna kill a car. you can seek my advice. btw did i mention i once did a parallel parking with my handbrake up? sigh.

my mum says i am a sheng1 huo2 bai2 chi1. sigh.

oh btw UP is a great movie! =D
*********