Offshore again

Currently i am at Miri, waiting for my time to go offshore to Teknik Berkat again. I was back on land for 3 days and off i go again. But the past 3 days, i really enjoyed myself in town; spend time with my family, Sarah, Jack and also got to do some window shopping and have some different kind of food in town.

Hmm... how i feel this time? I would say better as i have been there before and also know some of the people there, not so alien. But to come to think of 2 weeks there doing nothing, hmm, that might be the turn off coz boring, nothing much to do, i dont have much movies with me, internet connection gonna be scare and also not nice to use internet and chatting away while the others do their daily work right...

Can consider i got myself prepared, in the way where i prepare some stuff to eat to pamper myself, my 3G connection (hope it works like a charm at TB) and also my movies (not a lot, but hope it is enough to last me through) and some nice treats for the people up there.

Now i just hope to earn more money from this trip and use it on something that i treasure, probably treat my parents and also for my photography gears :-) What i miss most is the good time in KL and also Sarah. Didnt get to spend much time with her lately as i was busy in work, and she also has her studies to juggle. So hope by year end, i can spend some time with her, probably a short weekend trip to somewhere for our vacation.

Year end coming, so much excitement in me. Year end means Christmas is coming to town, liked the christmas spirit a lot, though i am not a christian, but beats it and i join in the fun :-) Also looking forward to vacation with Sarah, her parents and also with my parents. Just hope i can get enough leave for year end :-)

Okay, that's for all now. Hope to blog more when i am up there (if possible). Would like to extend my condolences to Kumar for the departure of his grandpa. May he rest in peace and may your family be strong throughout this emotional period. To all other people, i miss you guys!

Great weekend...

Weekend was GREAT!!! Why? Able to spend quality time with my loved ones as i have been busy throughout the weekend for the past few weeks, probably 3 weeks ago. This weekend, due to the slow down of activity for PCSB rigs, i was able to spend more time with my family, friends and Sarah. As time past by, come to new week again, hence thinking if the coming week will be busy one for me or perhaps i might need to go offshore? Hope not as i would still like to have some relaxing weekend if possible :-) Hope all well for the coming week then!!!

Late then never - My CNY wishes :-)

Happy Chinese New Year, though late wishes, today is already the 12th day of the chinese calendar, but better than no wishes for this year. Hmm... CNY this year had its pros and cons. This year, the CNY leave is considered good, as for those in KL working, taking 3 days off will result in straight 10 days holiday. What more can you expect if it was not 10? I wanted to take more days off but guess good things need to come to an end, why not leave it to later when it could be best utilised :-) Cons is that i am so happen to be on-call throughout the celebration, with money for sure, but the feel of not able to enjoy the fullest and had to carry my laptop with me when visiting. Imagine, bringing laptop bag around during CNY, not the best thing that could ever happen. Why? Cause laptop bag can be considered as 'book bag' or in cantonese is pronounce is 'shu pau' which means sure lose. Surely those gambler would not want to meet me with that bag :-)

Since this year is not that good in terms of economic stability of the world nations, which also include our tiny country, just hope that things will turn out fine for me in terms of my work and hope there is progress over all and chances of advancement. Also hope all my family and friends would stay healthy and happy in life, bet that is the most important one in life. Some may hope for wealth and etc, but come to think of it, happiness is the main thing for me in life. Old fashion? Perhaps but what more can we get out of life if we are not happy clocking our daily shifts of our lifetime? Tell me or share with me if you have your thoughts.

What is left? Another 3 days more to go and CNY is over. Sigh, why time passes so damm fast, and the meaning of CNY seems to be fading, more to a days off rather than some big celebration. This year i tried to bring back some tradions back to my home, helped to decorate my house with some red stuff and hangging items, that could obviously bring up the CNY mood and as well to chip in to the reunion dinner with my relatives. Also to help out in preparing the food and not just sit and wait for food like the previous years, kind of like the idea of preparing for CNY as one whole family :-)

All well so far... hope this year will be a better year for all :-)

My thoughts for today

Coming year end, but seems work is picking up, more than what i can imagine. Been alone in office these few days and has been pretty tired as lots to do, yet so little time. From today, there will be another 8 days until going into year 2009. What has been accomplish so far for year 2008? I am still pretty much in the dark of what has happen, looking into 2009 is not too much brighter after all.

Now i am just waiting for Christmas, but before christmas will be attending one musical show, Mamma Mia @ Istana Budaya which happens to be tomorrow. Can't wait to watch this smashhing musical show...
http://www.mamma-mia.com/



Then coming to Christmas, as usual to have Christmas Dinner meal, especially the turkey @ Sarah's place :) Not her cooking, but her mum... Thanks in advanced. What's more for Christmas? Nothing much, as this year is a busy year, as for Christmas day itself, i might need to provide support to PCSB customer as few rigs would be tentatively drilling on that day. Come on, give me a break :( Its Christmas... Santa, i want a worryless Christmas...Can i?

What is after Christmas? I plan to take a day leave on Boxing Day, so that can relax a bit after working for logn long hours for the past week. Been pretty hectic actually, so think this is the best time to recharge and at the same time to prepare for our Penang trip on 27-29 Dec 08. Will be driving up to Penang and look for few friends to seek their help to bring us around, those that i am targetting will be Chin Leng, Khai Chen and also Mei Leng.


After that, then will be new year already. Not sure what is my plan yet, as this year been pretty unplanned and the pretty gals in my team all have teamed up and took leave for this whole week, so it is not that easy for me to take leave. Lets see how it goes, hope all goes well for New Year, 2009. Hope all turns out well for the coming new year and hope all will have a great year ahead despite the economic downturn that affecting globally.

Promises?

A promise is dear to me. I have learnt it from the hard way where promises were just mere words to me. It cost me a lot for me to learn the true meaning of it and how to appreciate it in our life and just not make empty promises. Because of what I have experienced previously, I would not want to raise promises and never be able to make it come true, or probably just for the sake of promising something to make one feels good with the promises that I made.

Currently, I am facing this problem as well which is due to my work commitments where I would not be able to have a fix or more reliable work schedule for me to make other commitments in life. This sucks and I am really not enjoying it much as time passes by where I have been missing some occasions which is dear to me as well. Sigh, work and personal…called as work life balance. How balanced could life be at this time of life, I ponder… Anyway, I tried to think positively and perhaps this is due to the fact that I am a new joiner in what I am doing now and we are still, I stress…still running low on resources and at the same time, we are currently going on some reform of work structure. Looking at this, hope that work could bring some changes and also same goes for my life, between work and life being balanced to an acceptable level.

As for those promises, both to myself or to those that I cared for, let’s hope and pray for a better tomorrow in my work where things can be more calm and organised to a certain level. Then, I would be able to make promises and also to keep up to those promises that I made.

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 :)

Meaningful Thought...

One of my friend blogged something meaningful to her blog the other day, its regarding relationship. The question goes like this "How do you perceive a relationship?" The content of the blog is related to Family, Friend and Love relationship. I find her post so right and meaningful where i would like to this opportunity to make a duplicate of her topic and to voice out my view as well.

Family
Family would be the first and most essential love or relationship of all to each of us. Why? Like the Chinese saying, we don't break out of rock, so we all would have parents which is also known as our parents. In general, our parents aka family would be the first person we meet and also to care for us in this world since our birth. Therefore the Family is the most essential and also valuable to us before achieving the love of Friend and Love. With Family love, we would be able to receive support and care from then as we progress thru the path of childhood, from the age of 1 and above. Family love is not only available during the young days, but also throughout the rest of our life. Why? As all parents would behave, their child is forever their child regardless of what age their child have achieved and they would always have the love of their family. Most of all, they would be willing to support and care no matter what situation that he/she encounter. Isn't the Family love being wonderful of all where it starts from the moment we are born until the end of our journey of life.

For me, i am blessed with a good family members, being supportive and helpful at most time. I once thought why my parents were being so strict with me previously and also care for me so much all the time. But now as i grew elder, i have understand the need of this and also know that if without what my parents have done previously, it would be hard to be whom i am now. Thanks daddy, mummy and all :)

P/s: The above is on a general basis where the child lives and being with their family and not of those on special cases where either the parents not with the kid or those kids that live under broken family where not able to receive the full of Family love.

Friend
Friends would be the most common in life unless if we choose not to befriend with anyone. If we open out our heart to those around us, it will be easy for us make friends, but regardless if the friend is out of pure heart of not, but that really depends on how to make sure that friendship is of pure and both mean for the best of the friendship. Friends would be the one that we spend most of our time in life, either we call it as school friends, college friends, university friends, working colleague/friends and other individual we meet throughout the way. Friend will be the one whom we share secrets, problem, spend time, hanging out together, doing some crazy things while being young and etc. Without the love of friends, our life would be so boring and rather dull, also when we need someone to be by our side, either to support us or help us in any way, then if without them it would be something regretful in life as we live the life in emptiness, without friends to be part of our life.

My bunch of friends that i have developed throughout the years, i have no complaints with them. They are great friends and i do admit that some of them i have lost contact and also some have got distance as we get busy with our daily life or distance grew between us, but i deeply remember those great time that we have shared in part of our life together, as great pal or friends. I hope in the days and years to come, we would be able to reunite and catch up on old times and i do think i need to find the time to locate most of you :)

Love
Having said about family and friends, i would have to reach Love finally. Love, it is so magical yet best thing that could ever happen. Why magical? As we would never have been lovers if we were never been Friends and after we been Friends, we could then proceed on to Love each other as a special one in our life time. What happens after Love? Then he/she would be Family, the Family of his/her in their life. See how the family of one got extended, also extended would be the friends of life for both he and she. See the magical of it? Not only that, having said about the magical part of what i have mentioned just now, imagine having found someone whom you truly love and care(from both sides), isn't that magical? Our love that we find to be the eternal, might not be the first love or the second, it might be the third, ten or more as the journey to look for someone compatible and suitable, that is never easy so that both can build a life of their own. Having the loved ones, then we would be able to rely more to them for most of the things that happen in our daily life, not that we need their help to solve each and every issue identified or to do each things together, but having someone to share some stories, jokes, happenings, laughter, sadness, grieve and etc is always blessful as we need not go through all those alone. I admit that we can always share that with friends, but do remember that friends might not be available 24x7 but hopefully our love one could be avaiable more than that :P

For my case, i have found my love :) Though it took quite some journey and time consuming also it does gave me the bad names at some time as some may have perceived me as player, where i like to play about, flirt here and there. Yes i agree that i flirt, who doesn't flirt being with great individuals? So that we gain acknowledgement and so that they take notice of our existance. I don't really want to walk past someone and that person never took notice of me, no i don't want to be that. So most of the time, while being friendly some may perceive it as flirting. Sigh, can't change how some people may perceive some things of a gesture of friendliness as flirtatious. But to heck with their view or belief, i know what i am doing :) and i know i am not what they perceive me as. Everytime i get know to anyone or a friend, i am being true to them and not with that intention of - I am going to tackle that girl and etc... I am happy being with my loved one now and great that i have found her :) I love her much :D

Hmm...guess that is what i have to say now, if there is more to be said after this where i remember more, i would certainly add it in :) Sigh, a little tired already after blogging so long, let me listen to some music to relax a bit :) Cheers, and may all have the best one deserve for Family, Friends and LOVE !!!