My Uber Experience in Singapore

Women are great drivers too! In general, most of the time men thought that all women are bad drivers. When we heard news that woman driver crushed their car into the long kang ( a.k.a drain) due to a cockroach, people will tend to make the news go viral (especially men), as they want to show prove that men are superior drivers than women! As time went by, due to it's "deep seated root culture", this kind of thinking becomes a norm that all women are a bad driver as compared to men. However, this is not true! There are also woman driver who can drives far better than most of the men and vice versa. Women nowadays have far more contribution than men as not only they need to take care of the family, they also need to help men put breads on the table. Therefore, it is very important for each and everyone of us on the road to show respect to one another irregardless of gender . Lastly, wishes all lady uber drivers here a happy internation...

Ubering after a year! Time flies, it was about a year now ever since I started ubering one year ago. I started then when UBER introduced the free rental and free petrol via UFC (Uber Flexi Club) platform. During that time, I was using the car from Smove . It was an hourly rental platform, however during that promotion, we are able to rent the car for FREE for a week. Likewise for petrol, we can claim it and get it for FREE too. Those were the days.......... Right now, I'm renting LCR car as after my 5 weeks contract with them ( FREE rental also as I won a lucky draw ), they gave me some rebates which I thought it was worth it to continue the rental. Also, during CNY, I opted in to distribute Ang Baos to 20 selected riders. I felt like a Chinese Santa Claus ! And these are the best wishes from the lucky riders who have taken my rides during CNY! Zoom in to view! It was very enjoyable to see all these well-wishes! Not every drivers will get to dist...

Superb Navigation Skill of a Taxi Driver It was consider a partial peak hour which I usually start my ubering in the morning at around 0930am. This time round, I got a request from NEX, Serangoon (one of the hottest request area in the northeast side) "Please go to Genting Lane via Wan Tho Ave ", said the lady who just came on board. "Sure, no problem!", I said it with confident as I know where exactly this location is. However, when I take a look at Uber's GPS , it was prompting me to go MacPherson road from Upper Serangoon road as shown below. The usual route from nex to genting lane as shown by google map (same as uber navigation) As I usually "switch off" my brain by following Uber's GPS when I'm ubering, I asked the lady out from my curiosity, "How did you know about this short cut?" "From taxi driver! They are the best!" the lady said blissfully. "Usually, in the mor...

PDVL EXAM Yesterday 29th January 2018, I just took my PDVL exam. I was very nervous as I told myself I do not want to waste time and money to retake again. Therefore, just one day before ( which was Sunday) the exam, I studied real hard. I studied all the highlighted portion (which our trainer, Ken told us to highlight) and also did the online mock papers . As I was told by someone that there are total 4 sets of paper per exam , so in order for me not to miss out any of those, I did multiple times of revision online . Basically, the online platform which you can do your PDVL exam revision is @   TP Tests   and the PDF copy of   the FAQ private hire car driver's vocational licence commencement can be found here . One of the methods as told by our Purely Uber Drivers Group Chat member for Paper 2 revision is to try to practise till you get perfect score consistently because it is all about factual stuffs (demerit points, fine, suspensio...

LCR Car breakdown It seem to be another normal day as I picked up one Aussie passenger from his condo to his workplace.  However, on that particular day 22nd December 2017 (few weeks ago), my Toyota Sienta decided that she needs a "break", so just right after the traffic light had turned green, she decided not to move anymore. I did a few attempts to "wake" her up, but she insisted on having a long rest.  Therefore without having much option left, I have to call for LCR car servicing @ 6262 4620 , my passenger also has to get out from my car and request for another uber driver. "What a bad day!" I said to myself But I can't just leave my car alone there. I need to do something about it without leaving her strand on the road. Luckily, I still remember what I have learned during my car driving lesson days (thats was about 20 years ago!). So, immediately I went behind my "car booth" to look for the red...

Credit: Pixabay Experience with the pilot rider I thought it was just another usual night while ubering in Singapore. Usually, it's pretty common for us; uber drivers to fetch passenger like pilots or air stewardesses. However, this time round, the experience was different. And below is the conversation between the pilot and me: Pilot: Why do you guys (drivers) enjoy stepping on your accelerator intermittently? Do you know that you jerk the passenger forward and back? Me: I didn't enjoy doing that, Sir. I was controlling my speed according to the road speed . You do know that Singapore's road has a lot of speed camera , don't you? Also, I'm trying to maintain my fuel control in the "ECO" mode in order to save fuel (one of the highest expenses in our "business cost") Pilot: Nah, all of you are being trained to drive like this. Traditional taxi drivers are even worse! Nowadays, I don't even take traditional t...

Unusual Promo Code "FOMOPLAY" Some of you might already know what does " FOMO " stands for. As for those who don't, let me explain; FOMO basically is an acronym stands for " Fear Of Missing Out ". It could also means " anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere, often aroused by posts seen on social media " as explained by dictionary. So what's so special about FOMO and why am I talking about it? Well, most uber drivers have observed and commented that these few days were exceptionally quiet. For most of the entire days, its either no surge or no request (aka no ping) at all! So for those full-time uber drivers, how are they going to hit their target? Luckily, uber promo code "FOMOPLAY" is coming to the rescue! For the entire 12 hours (9am - 9pm) 28th Dec 2017, you will get $5 off "unlimited" uber rides. Once you applied the promo code " FOMOPLAY ...