It definately applies to my driving in the traffic at the moment. I'm not proud of it at all, but I'm currently chasing time to often and there are no margins between the various activities. Bad planning maybe, but I try to squeeze in as much as possible and I'm still no good at saying NO.

During my year in Kuala Lumpur, I got acclimatized to the local traffic there and developed a Malaysian driving style. I actually liked it and I think it suits my personality. Not so oriented towards following the rules etc, more a pragmatic approach to make the most of what's possible in each situation. During the following year in Seoul, I also had to cope with very intensive pace in the city traffic where it always were to many cars everywhere. Tough experience during rush hour traffic. The small nice Koreans developed devilish horns on their heads when they got behind the steering wheel. That's probably why 99% of the cars in Korea have tinted windows. Once I gave a guy "the finger" because he provoked me on the motor way and he actually started a bit of a fight with me during high speed driving. Dangerous and scary. I let him "win", so he could speed on in his ego macho proud manor.

It also make the traffic jams here in Gothenburg looking like the kids driving circuit at Legoland. Still, I drive like in Asia even here. Probably due to the internal stress factor of always being without any margins, in combination with hating to be late to meetings etc. OK, I'm also rather restless by nature.

It will be nice to be in the traffic chaos in Bangalore again next week. That will make my driving back home here look like going to the Sunday school.