| I couldn't quite believe that a/ I had actually held down a job for three years and b/ I had seen, done and experienced so much over those three years. And I wasn't even touching upon the reality that three years felt like three days. |
| It seemed like only a few hours ago that I had, on my first day at work, been handed the keys to an orange Fiat Siena 1.2 and told to "just drive off somewhere for a few days and write a story". I drove all right "" a 2,200 km round trip to Gujarat in torrential rain, a distance I would otherwise have taken at least three months to tot up under normal commuting circumstances. |
| I remember clenching my teeth as I handed in my first article, terrified that it would be flung back in my face with a "Hah! I spit on your story-telling ability!" retort. Luckily for me, it passed muster and I've had a much easier time since "" although I still get a little jittery before writing anything. |
| Since August 1, 2003, I've travelled the length and breadth of this country and been to six other countries. I've become an automobile photographer by default, discovering abilities I never knew I had. |
| I've seen, heard, touched and driven some of the world's biggest and smallest, fastest and slowest, funkiest and ugliest, newest and oldest, most exciting and most boring vehicles. I've done in about 1,100 days what most others don't get to do in a lifetime. |
| I love my job. Ha, ha and ha. |
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