Some updates

Been some time since i blogged. Perhaps due to my busy schedule also uncertainty that i have now with my work schedule. Also, there seems to be less significant happenings in life, most of the time i would be either working or at home sleeping, probably go out with friend and so on.

Since my last entry, i have been out to my first lonely rig up job. It was partial rig up as 50% of the task has been done by one of my colleague, Kumar. I was there to finish up what was not done the other time. Before i reach there, i was kind of worried of how things would be for the rig up and heard some not so positive comments regarding the rig. It was more to the accomodation not up to the normal standard where heard from his experience that have to sleep in those construction cubicle aka container with attached toilet where the air quality is bad, stuffy and leaking aircond. I was in the impression i would be landing in the same fate as well, that's why i feel so dreadful to be heading there, especially that i would be alone. Upon reaching there, things seems to be for the better. The briefing was good, the Medic on board was friendly. He even helped me to take one of my extra lugguage, so good of him. I even raise a CARD for him, for helping me out. Then i was assigned to the twin room with the Mechanic for Special Project. So it was a small room, but a decent room, with TV (Astro) also, too bad i was always on the work and less time to spend on the TV. My work there was from Friday to Sunday, so means i have to rush and get those things working if i want to get out of the rig on Sunday. Yeah, i was stuck at the helibase for like 6 hours, sigh...take my advice, try not to travel on the Friday, 13th. It is really not that lucky and smooth. Adding on to the stories, while i was there, few incidents happened. One was where the supply boat ramp into the leg, causing tremors for like 5 seconds and bending the supporting leg and also while drilling, discovered H2S which the OIM was asking the RO to prepare to signal everyone to abandon the rig, but luckily that did not happened :) Coming back was not smooth again, as i was at the Kuantan airport since 1pm and waited for like 6 hours until 7 plus night before it departed back to KL. I bought a small portion of Choc Cookies from Famous Amos from the airport for my dad, as his Father's Day gift :) At least i made it back in one piece and on time.

That was on my rig experience, not mentioning details of the whole rig up, i can say that it is not easy to DIY and also to setup everything as i am so new to do the setup and etc. Then i came back, took a day off from work as i was working throughout the weekend to get the system up. Then went to work on Tuesday - Friday (halfday). That is just 3.5 working days. I wanted to take off on Fridya, but due to short of hand, i need to get back to attend the morning meeting and then only i can leave work. Had a long weekend, by going to movies on Friday night with my parents, then Saturday went out shopping with my ex-coll, shopping for the upcoming dinner event @ MidValley and Bangsar retails areas then had filling dinner with family at Kam's Kitchen. Wow, so many dishes that we ordered, all sum up to RM210, but it was a nice dinner all together. Sunday went for a morning swim at the pool, it was sleepy and cold at first but after 5 minutes, i was fully awake. At night, checked that i have the weekend shift for the coming week, so i would have another 3 days of off day to add on top of the existing weekend.

How i spend those 3 extra off days? Most of it to rest myself and also to enjoy myself. I went for bowling, went for movie alone in the afternoon, while waiting for one of my friend to get off work and few other things that i forgot. Sigh, spending weekdays at home while others working, sometimes really makes me feel lonely and stupid. Sigh, but that is my work. So here i am today, sitting in the office early and blogging for the past week. Hope things will be well this week, i would only be working from Thursday to Sunday, in between i will be taking off on Saturday to attend a function which was pre-planned well ahead of time. Don't care about work, need to have work life balance at times.

Hmm... that should be all for now. More updates later, looking forward to Saturday :)