Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Farewell to West Berani

The time has finally come, to bid farewell to West Berani ... a rig that i have worked for the past 5 months .... it's being like part of my life then ... and i have so much fun working with all the crew onboard ...

Not until my last day that i realized that i have never take any pictures at West Berani, ermm ... wait a minute, i actually never really taken any picture on any rig since the beginning of offshore job ...

b4 i leave, i finally manage to take some pictures ... also maybe my last picture wearing my red coverall ... :P




Me in the Halliburton Unit

Team Halliburton at West Berani

Me and "Fearless Lead Engineer" Benjamin

Me and "Super MWD" Yiek

Me and "Specialist" Yip

Me and Directional Drillers, Irwin and Kan

West Berani Derrick

West Berani Floater

Goodbye West Berani !!!!!

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Friendship

Throughout my life, i am glad that i have been able to know a lot of friends and some have been a very good buddy to me until today. Friendship is the best thing that happened to me.

I have always enjoy knowing new people, and making friends along the way. Good friends especially are irreplacable, as they have gone through good and bad times in life with me, the one that inspire me, the one who share common interest and basically someone that i can talk forever with. I have realize that there is a lot of things that we can learn from our friends whether intentionally or unintentionally, something that has been so important to my lifelong learning journey.

People used to tell me that friends usually come and go, from the moment you enter and leave schools, enter and leave university and when you start working at different companies and locations. Even tough friends might be physically be around or leave us, I still stubbornly believe that we can maintain a very strong friendship bond among us if we put in the effort. And thank god with existance of the current communication technology, keeping in contact with friends have been much easier, something that is very important to me due of my job nature as an offshore engineer.

And right now, i can't wait get myself back to Miri to spend my remaining time I have there with them. I am also very excited to be able to move back to KL to meet catch up with my old buddies and also to make new friends ... and even though i will be leaving Miri, I still believe that we can remain good friends ...

"I live my life revolve around my friends" ... :-)

Friday, September 5, 2008

Bad day

Yesterday was a day when everything that can go wrong, goes wrong ...

First our tools downhole failed ... then when it finally reached to the surface ... we have problem communicating with the tool ... so we decided to change out a new set of tool for our next run ... just when i was starting to work on the rig floor making up the tool ... suddenly it rained so heavily ... coupled with strong wind at about 20 knots ... even tough i was wearing rain coat ... it did not prevent myself to be fully drenched ... and after that more and more problems .... #$%^^@#$!

Just when we finally manage to solve the problem and finished our work... suddenly the sun started to shine again .... by then I was awake for almost a day ... it was day that really tested my patience to the limit ....

However, things do work fine again and the sun do shine again ... so i guess it might the god's test to me on my final hitch at West Berani

Monday, September 1, 2008

Wake Me Up When September Ends

1st of September --- suppose to go offshore but boat cancelled .... woke up as early as 4.oo am and waited for over 2 hours b4 i decided to call the rig only to find out there is no boat today :-(

What a good start for the month ... :-P

This is a crucial month, reason being ----

1) Starting a new job
2) Moving back to KL for good after spending 3 years++ at Miri
3) Moving into new house
4) Good friends leaving and coming back to Malaysia

A month full of uncertainties .... full of excitement ... full of emotions .... and definitely going to be a tiring month ....

I just hope that i can sleep thru the whole month ... and wake up when september ends ....