well, the title should read from west alliance/ miri/ ocean rover/ miri/ ss3 with love... with a little bit of labuan here and there... =P
the past one month has been crazy (in terms of travelling) for me...
05/11/08 - miri
06/11/08 - west alliance
13/11/08 - labuan
14/11/08 - miri
16/11/08 - kl (i'll talk bout this later...)
17/11/08 - miri
18/11/08 - labuan
19/11/08 - ocean rover
23/11/08 - miri
07/12/08 - labuan
10/12/08 - ss3
and hopefully back to kl before xmas... *fingers crossed*
how crazy was that? and really, all those travelling and changing of locations just took the whole month away from me in a blink of an eye... actually, thinking back, the whole year went by in a heart beat didn't it? the year started kinda slow, picked up pace by around may or june and now it's coming to an end at warp speed...
anyway, here i am, on ss3 once more for a datafrac job on barton 206. simple job in terms of the operation and execution but pretty much technical. it'll be interesting coz for the 10 weeks or so that i spent in oman, we've been performing datafrac before every prop frac job and i didn't have a clue on what's going on... i just knew that we were getting critical data out of the job, but that's about it... and now, after school and after catching up on all the technical aspects of the job, i'll actually be able to read the plots and know for sure (i hope) what it is exactly that i'm looking at...
but really, lately, i've been so absorbed in my work and trying to catch up on so many things that i've just lost touch on almost everything else... i barely called/ chatted with cl over the past one month... i've barely called my parents... i missed one of my best friends' wedding... and as you've probably noticed, i've abandoned this space of mine as well... at times, i was just too busy to do anything about it... but at times i've gotta admit, i was just purely tired and lazy... so while the ss3 is being anchored down, i'm just taking this opportunity to tell the world (if anyone is interested) that i'm still here!
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congratulations on your wedding... i'm so sorry that i had to miss your wedding and trust me, if i've had any other options i would have been there... the first among us to tie the knot and i missed it! darn... anyway, wish you all the happiness with spl and may we soon see little angs running around... =P
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btw, although i've always dreamt of celebrating a white xmas - christmas has always been associated with snow so i guess that holds true for every kid who's never seen snow... but i'm in danger of celebrating a very blue xmas this year... surrounded by the wide, blue south china sea... =(
right now it still looks very likely that i'm still gonna be able to make it home before xmas... but there is a slight possibility that i won't and i'm praying hard that i'll be home for xmas...
well, i've gotta go now... it's getting really late and this post is getting really long... i'll end this post with all the pictures to make up the past one month that i've left this blog alone...
flaring on the west alliance - thanks to this very successful well, we once again went to the west alliance, rigged up and rigged down without executing our job...
this is me letting out all my frustrations at having to go through the same experience... twice!
just being a proud malaysian on the west alliance...
been on a few rigs now, but i've never seen them jacked down before... here's 2 of them that came in for maintenance at the labuan jetty...
here is the ocean rover... and a successful job for murphy oil...
remember the west setia and the kikeh spar?
they never cease to amaze me... we're in deep waters here - water depth at 1300m... some ppl feel sick even on the rig and these fishermen stay on those boats for days - come rain or shine...
after 4 visits to miri, i finally had the chance to see the grand old lady on canada hill - the first ever land rig in sarawak... thanks to amie...
sadly this is just a replica of the original... not only the structure but also the location... i think it would have been so cool if they could have maintained the original... maybe they can still do that with the last land rig in sarawak?
the view of miri from canada hill... see that tall building in the middle? i stayed there on my last trip to miri for 2 weeks - that's the mega hotel... and the building on the right is the imperial hotel which i stayed in my first 2 visits to miri...
tusan beach... also in miri - courtesy of amie amir again... says this is a good place for her geological field work of some sort... =)
we arrived just in time to catch the sunset...
need more work with my photography skills...
9 comments:
son,good pixs.btw there's a lot of yummy food waiting at hme.pray n thank God for all the good gifts been showered upon us.lots of love
me wants! me wants to barf flames like you. :D
hope to see you in kl for christmas man. :)
'since went my son became a dragon!'....very creative.love-mummy
haha..nice..gotta put this to you:
in simple terms - either your life sucks,or you're natural born workaholic, i.e. you're addicted to work, and doomed to have lonely christmas like the scrooge!
Just kidding. Hahaha. Take life easy mate.....precious things in life can slip away without you noticing it, particularly when you take it for granted. :)
don't ever sell your soul to the company
a chinese proverbs ' bitter first n sweet later'. pa,mi feel that dedication,result oriented,leadership is not something to take lightly in this ever revolving world. son, our understanding is that u work not just for the sake of work itself but to achieve ur goal in life n perform da best. 3-5 yrs down da line, than u'll b able to smell success for all da hard work. whatever work task,whichever organization we ar working, we've to put in da best of our effort.in today's Gospel, Simeon was waiting to die untill he had seen da promised Messiah. Anna had spent years of worshipping,fasting n praying...so there ar certain things to sacrifice now n u'll b able have a big smile later.'no pain,no gain.'pray n ask God to lead n guide u, u'll b amazed at all blessings that flow frm a humble, worshipping heart.' love.
hope to see you this Saturday! Ganbatte!!
jim - you'll get the chance to barf flames... if you ever wanna wear the blue coverall again... =)
kam - i'm not a workaholic, am i? and i do appreciate what i have right now which makes it harder for me to be away...
cl - they say our soul is sold the moment we sign on those dotted lines... hahaha...
mummy - this is not dragon... this is pig breathing fire... hehehe..
pa - it's tough to look so far ahead when we're stuck in this moment...
choy yee - looks like i'll definitely be missing the gathering tonight... =(
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