first real job...

hey there...

guess what? i'm working... yup... you heard me all right...

so, i hope that explains the long break from writing anything here...

lets see... where do i begin?

well, right before i started my job, i travelled to penang a couple of times... one was for pleasure, one for family business, one for st anne's feast and one for a funeral... that's why there were no updates about my trip to penang with kam and gf...

and right now... wanna know where i am? well i forgot the exact address... but just come all the way to kemaman, terengganu and ask for house no 106, lot 144... the cab will bring you straight to my house...

so... about my job...

first and foremost... i'm a field engineer (trainee for the moment)... with schlumberger... it's funny how i've always wanted to join schlumberger and now that i'm part of it, yeah... it feels weird... i'm in well services, simulation - fracturing... i know this might sound alien to you guys, but i just wanted a record for myself...

i'll try to post a pic of me in my blue coveralls and fashionable red wings safety boots... haha... i didn't know how the conditions here would be like so i packed as light as i can and with that, i left my camera at home...

and when did i start? officially, i started on the 30th of july, but i spent one week in kl for a seminar/ induction called the ofs-1 which was held in renaissance hotel. so this is just my second week here...

so anyway, hows the job? i'm not too sure... right now, there's still a lot of learning and stuff... but i think i'm going offshore end of this month, so that'll be cool... oh yeah, speaking of offshore - i went for this offshore survival and helicopter underwater evacuation training (huet) thing and it was loads of fun! it's actually to get my passport to go offshore... so they had this training where they put you in a cockpit which is supposed to resemble a chopper and they simulate the conditions of a chopper going under water... scary at first but it's cool... =) but they also had us going through this firefighting part where they made us crawl through some rooms filled with smoke... that was bad... wasn't life threatening or anything like that... but, if you're claustrophobic - stay away!

so other than that... it's study study study... and some time spent in the yard, redressing valves, performing function tests and stuff... so, for the first 2 weeks, the job's not bad...

the thing that's hitting me the hardest right now? i miss my home... =(

seriously, i never thought it would be this bad... the first three days was horrible... although it's getting better... i think it will take quite some time for me to adjust to this new environment...

so the new environment... not too bad actually... the fact that i'm able to blog from my room is better than what i expected... hahaha... ok, honestly, it's good life... i'm staying in a bloody spacious bungalow with 5 rooms... the whole house is air conditioned, there's astro, they've hired someone to help clean the house, wash our clothes... so... it's comfortable...

the only thing that would make it perfect is - my family... =(

dun really wanna talk about it here or now...

anyway, this blog is getting a bit too long and because i never planned on writing tonight, i feel the sequence is kinda messy... so i'll just end it here... and i'll end it with a pic for you guys (my loyal, non-existing followers)... hahaha...

i've joined the simpson's family! hahaha... one of my favourite cartoons of all times but i did not manage to catch the movie in the cinema... busy, busy schedule... =(

the photo (not too clear as it was taken by an ametuer... ehem... you know who you are...) was taken a while back when i went to the curve for dinner with pui leng, yi kang, choy yee, choy yee's bf (sorry i always forget his name) and chuu liu... we had a good time that night and we watched shrek3... oh... those were the good times... =)