SFR2894H

2005-2015

It wasn't the fanciest car,

Nor the fastest car around.

But I spent a huge part of my formative years being ferried around in that car. 

I remember the years my mom fetched me to AHS in that little black car,

Coming out of school exhausted from a day of NPCC training and seeing my mom in that black car there waiting for me.

Those years spent being driven to MJC.

After I learnt driving, I spent hours driving around leisurely in that car,

Singing at the top of my lungs and doing mini dances at red traffic lights.

The groggy mornings on my way to NUS in that car.

The almost accident that occurred when a rogue cockroach appeared when I was driving to school. 

That one time I actually burst a tyre when I hit the kerb while doing a right turn at the junction near my house. 

That time I was driving my mom and brother to Katong Shopping Centre and the car suddenly overheated for no reason.

All those fond memories that I had.

That car was the first car I confidently drove after I've gotten my licence.

It was a car that impressed a lot of people because people never fail to be surprised that I'm a girl driving a manual car.

And I could proudly say that my skills in driving a manual car far exceeds the skills of any other person I know, male or female.

Driving an auto car just isn't fun anymore after you've spent so long driving a manual one.

That car was the only car that I could refer to as mine. 

It was my car just as much as it was my mom's.

I had a tiny wishful hope that we would renew its COE instead of buying a new car to replace it.

But it was dashed when my parents came home from the Mitsubishi showroom bearing paperwork of the new car.

I was really disappointed,

But I understand that renewing the COE meant that the car would have to go through a major overhaul because so many of its parts were failing due its age. 

Afterall, it has been a long 10 years.

I miss you.

Thank you for those 10 years of happiness on the roads.

I would give anything to have you back.

To wake up, walk to the carpark and see tiny little you in a parking lot, 

Solid and sturdy as always.

Farewell, old friend.