Friday, July 10, 2009

What A Day~

Salam & Greetings~

Today for the 1st time, I went back home at 7 p.m since I was quite busy helping the team to put some assemblies into the basket for load-out (FYI,those terms are oilfield terms). They were GT Packers, Side Pocket Mandrels and others that I could not recall for Bokor Project, Well Bo-221. So we finished somewhere around 5++ p.m. So I stayed at the office,did some readings while waiting the clock to tick at 7 p.m. Oh yeah,maybe some of you are wondering what the hell I was talking about at the early sentences. Just so you know, I'm currently in Completions Segment,to be specific in Core Completions. In this segment,we deal with equipments such as Safety Valve, Isolation Valves (such as TIV,FIV), Packers, Sliding Sleeve and many more. Every equipments has their own function,if I were to explain those all,memang sampai ke esok tak abes. So,to sum up everything,those equipments mentioned before are installed for oil production (to know more,you may ask me later k). In CC,we have 4 Field Engineers namely Agnes, Amy, Elly & Suba-Rao. So just imagine, I need to satisfy all four engineers in order for me to pass my internship. Crazy huh? Yup,each of them ada la perangai masing2 & understanding yg berbeza-beza for every equipments. So,memang pening la aku bila diorg nie explain kat aku pasal setiap equipment sebab masing2 ada version yg tersendiri walaunpun basically lebey kurang je (tp diorg still nak jawapan ikut pemahaman diorg). Memang susah nak satisfy diorg berempat tuh. Kalo Field Specialist ada ramai,dalam 10 org, I guess. Tapi diorg sempoi je walaupun suh aku wat macam2. But it's ok cause it's for learning purposes. Nak dijadikan cerita, all three female engineers kat segment aku nih couple dgn specialist dlm segment yg sama. Oh,Amy dah kahwin pun dgn Ah Teng (nama Melayu nyer Fadzli), Elly and Hasfia will engage somewhere this Discember but Agnes and Jilbert "teman tapi mesra". Gitu lah cerita sedikit sebanyak dlm segment aku nie.

So,normally aku pergi kerja dlm pukul 7.10 a.m camtu and balik around 5 p.m (by pick-up which is a bus). For lunch,normally I had at the cafe at base,just need to pay RM3 and you'll get 4 dishes including drinks and fruit. Tapi sometimes ada gak la engineer or specialist ajak aku kuar lunch sekali dgn diorg. Yg pasti,sume di tanggung. A day before yesterday,my Manager belanja 10 of us for lunch. Apa lagi,bedal la lauk byk2 time tu. Bila lagi kan Manager nak belanja. Thanks ya Pak Orient (he's Idonesian,so all of us call him Pak). For dinner,depends la. If I was like damn fucking tired,right after Maghrib prayer I went to sleep already. But if I still have some energy, I walked to the nearest restaurant which takes nearly 10 minutes from my house (normally with Ridhwan and Naseer). Kalau dah malas sgt,makan jela Maggie. Haha..cam zaman sekolah lak kan. Nak wat camne. Kalau rajin lagi,gi la town by taxi,so pegi la KFC ke, PizzaHut ke, McD ke or other restaurant available in Labuan. Weekend?? How about my weekend eh? Hmm..here in Schlumberger,we only have one day for weekend which is on Sunday. On Saturday,we still need to work okey (half day only but if got lotsa work to do,it might drag until five or seven o'clock). So during weekend,it's for me to rest heavenly in the house. Layan cite kat external hard disk (cite2 yg telah di download kat UTP dulu) or layan la cite kat TV (kalau ada cite best la!). Or maybe hang out with my friends (tapi kat Labuan nie,kalau hang out pun,alih2 kat Financial Park tu gak~). But then, I just been here for a month. Lotsa places to be visted really soon~ Haha..

p/s: I'll be going to Miri this Sunday (12/7) until Friday (17/7) for Sea Survival course. Last month I went to Kemaman,so this time to Miri. Next month hopefully (really2 hope to) that I'll be going offshore~

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Memories : Rindu kepada sahabat - sahabat lama...

Sigh~

Huhu..starting lagi dah mengeluh kan. Hmm,actually I just read few of the blogs belongs to some of my old friends (time kat MRSM Jasin). So,mula la teringat all the old memories when I was studying in MRSM Jasin. Seriously, I miss them soooooo much. Rasa cam nak turn back the time je. Well,now masing-masing dah ada life sendiri. Ada yg study in local U, ada yg kat oversea. So,nie some of the blogs that I read:

Tu jela, takde la byk sgt. But looking forward to read from others as well. Miss u guys so much. =)
Cheers~

Sunday, July 5, 2009

My Life: A month in Labuan

Oh,it has been almost a month since my last post in this blog. Even though azam nak update every week but since mood utk tulis blog cm takde je,so tak update2 la blog nie. Lgpun bkn ade readers pun kan. So,no pressure! Hehe..ok,after a month plus in Labuan,a lot of things happened to me. So,let's recap what I had after a month in Labuan (besides working at the base):

1) Going to Kemaman Base

Ok,on 25th June 2009 (Thursday) at 4.30++pm, I got a call from Hasfia (my senior,his a Field Specialist for Core Completions) to go upstairs, meeting him (i was chatting with Hector & Airil at the smoking area at that time,but I don't smoke ok!). Then I went upstairs and he asked me to accompany him to Kemaman Base on 26th (which is the next day) and our flight is at 8.00am. Damn,it was so last minutes and I couldn't say NO of course,so I went with him to Kemaman then. We took a flight from Labuan to KLIA and from KLIA to Kuantan. The gap between both flights is 7 hours approximately,so we went to Times Square and Low Yat in between the flight time. Then once arrived in Kuantan,a pick-up took us to our hotel in Cherating which is at Impiana Cherating Resort. It's a 4 stars hotel, I guess and one room per person,no sharing. From the hotel to Kemaman Base,it took almost an hour I think. There at the base,I helped him to take our stuff (most of them are lock-out tools) to be shipped to Labuan Base. After 3 days in Kemaman,we went back to Labuan on the 30th. Again,the gap also was 7 hours,so we went to Times Square also where I watched Transformer and had a lunch at Secret Recipe & bought some Big Apple's donuts (since Labuan's cinema sucks big time and there's no Secret Recipe & Big Apple - so cam org jakun cket la time tu. =P),so when I had the opportunity to be in K.L, defenitely la I enjoy myself to the fullest. Haha..total expenditure of the trip per person would be: hotel - rm1300 & flight - rm1899 (ditanggung sepenuh nye by Slb,thanks ye Slb~ =D)..


the balcony of my room (view nyer adalah pantai cherating~)

the living room~ =D


my comfy bed..


my dinner during the flight back to Labuan (MAS Flight)

the view from my seat~

2) Good boy gone bad...
Haha..pada tanggal 4 July 2009,pukul 11.00 p.m, officially aku gi ke Pub at Dorsett Hotel. That's my 1st time to be in a pub. At 1st,I was hesitated to go,but I changed my mind and followed Ridhwan & Radzi that night. We had our dinner 1st,then around 11 p.m,we went to the pub. But no worries guys, I didn't do anything that against our religion (such drinking or having sex.. =P).We just sat there and watching the live band (the band was pretty cool though). There were some rugby guys (I think they just had a tournament) that rocked the pub by making lotsa noise and other weird stuff. Haha..around 1 a.m,we went back home laa...do I want to go to the pub again? - MAY BE..


In the pub bebeh (taken by my hp's camera,so not that good la~)

3) VT's day out!!
On the afternoon (today),we as the Vacation Trainee in Schlumberger had a day out together. Me, Mamoo, Aini & Faris. Since Mamoo & Aini are just about to finish their internship,so they both 'borong' kain & some other stuff since kat Labuan; kain, rokok, arak & coklat memang la sgt murah. But Mamoo was the highlight of the day. Haha..beli kain tak ingat dunia. Me as the Fashion Consultant Trainee, Aini as the Advisor @ Senior Consultant while Faris just tengok2 jela si Mamoo shopping tu sambil hisap rokok dekat sekotak gak la. Hehe..They spent I think almost rm300 or more for all the stuff. Owh yeah,some introduction of them; Mamoo (a.k.a Scofield Jr.) & Aini (a.k.a ustazah rock),they're both from UTM and only 2 months in Slb; Faris (bajet Awie..) plak from GMI and he just been in Labuan for 2 weeks but he'll be here for 4 months. So,those are my new friends here in Labuan la. But both Mamoo & Aini will be going back to UTM on this coming Thursday,so no more VT's morning meeting,no more Mamoo yg gila2 even though kadang2 quite annoying gak. Hehe..so sad bila diorg nak blah dah. Well,setiap pertemuan akan berakhir dgn perpisahan,so redha jela kan...


Mamoo & Aini sedang membelek-belek kain, Faris tgk jela..

Sunday, June 7, 2009

1st Week of my Internship at Schlumberger~

Assalamualaikum & greetings to all,

Ok,today is my 6th day in Labuan. I'm thinking to regularly updating my blog,weekly perhaps not only for someone to read,but for me to treasure every moment here in Labuan (I've never been in East Malaysia before,this is like the very 1st time I'm here..). So lets talk about what I've gone through this week.

1st Day

I had my flight to Labuan on Tuesday, 7.50a.m at LCCT (by AirAsia obviously). Since I need to check-in quite early, an hour before the flight time,so I had to wake up 5 o'clock in the morning. Me & my parents were heading to the airport somewhere around 5.45a.m and we arrived there I think around 6.20a.m. I did all the necessary things and then waited until 7.30a.m before going on board. The journey took nearly two and a half hour to arrive at Labuan Airport. Then,me & Epit went straight away to the base (Asian Supply Base) to report to our respective manager a.k.a Field Service Manager (FSM). Mine is Orient Balbir Samuel,an Indonesian. Oh,another thing,here in Schlumberger,we don't call people with Mr. or Ms. or Dr. or what knot since for them,everybody here is the same,regardless of your position or qualification. Then,I've introduced to my Mentor, Agnes Tan, a Field Engineer in Core Completions. Yeah,forgot to mention before,I'll be in Completions segment for the whole 8 months in Schlumberger. Later on,my Mentor showed me to all the people in the segment before we went out for lunch. During lunch, I met some girls (all of them are engineers ok..), Airin, Premjit, Ruby and Husna. Then,we back to the base,got all the PPE (hard hat,coverall,safety class and boots) from Ruby,the segment Admin and had a shop tour at the workshop with my mentor. After 5 o'clock,I went to my house by the company's bus. Just imagine,my Admin gave me the wrong key and I could enter the house and waited for an hour for my housemate to come. I have three housemates, Ridhwan, Naseer & Indran but only Indran is in K.L for sometimes. At night,we all went to have our dinner by walking to the nearest restaurant and they paid for me. Hehe..

2nd Day

Nothing much I did for the 2nd day but I had the opportunity to observe the engineers to pressure test one of the equipment which was SSD (I can only observe cause I don't get enough training to do any work yet). During lunch time,my mentor again brought me out to Blue Whale and blanje me. Hehe..they said, VT (Vacation Trainee) nt need to pay. Of course la,they earn like rm10,000 per month. For them,money is not a problem especially in Labuan coz there's nothing to do much here except to spend their money for food. Hahaha..at night,my housemates again treated me at Pizza Hut. So,no money spent that day. =D

3rd Day

Today,I got NEST (New Employee Safety Training) for the whole day. It just about the HSE policy and issue in Schlumberger. Kinda bored actually,just imagine,it's like you were listening to HSE lecture for 8 hours. Haha..but the interesting thing is,all Schlumberger employee need to wear seat belt everytime we are in any vehicle including bus or even when you seat at the back. If not,you might get terminated by the company. Hoho..sounds crazy right but it actually can reduce the impact of the accident since vehicle accident is no. 1 cause of death in Oil & Gas industry. So guys,please wear your seat belt ok,it will keep you safe at least.

4th Day

On Friday,I just completed all the orientation checklist so that I can start working a.s.a.p somewhere next week. I'm a lil' bit happy today since my FSM finally allows me to have sea survival training (it's compulsory for someone who'll be going to offshore). So,I hope my FSM will allow me to go offshore during my training here. Really want to go there cause it's once in a life time to have the experience going offshore unless you're the real engineer and not many of them have the opportunity though. At night,I went to Choice Restaurant (a famous Indian Muslim restaurant in Labuan) with Naseer and again,he paid for me. I had Murtabak Daging which was so huge and I couldn't finish it myself. Later on,we went to Ramy's house,to lepak2, had some chit chat and watching Astro (since our house doesn't have one). Ramy is from Saudi Arabia and he's in Cementing, Well Services segment. We were at his house until 12 midnight and the we went back home.

5th & 6th Day

For both days, Saturday and Sunday, I went to Epit's apartment in Unjana Kewangan since his apartment located exactly at the town. There's shopping mall and some interesting shops to visit. But since I'm not in a good condition (got flu and sore throat since day 2),so we just went to shopping mall to buy some chocolates (it's duty free ok,like Langkawai) and I bought 2 pieces of short pants. On Saturday,we had our lunch at chicken rice restaurant (forgot its name) and we cooked for our dinner,just a simple Nasi Goreng with telur dadar and some chicken wings we bought outside. On Sunday, we ate at Mamak Restaurant and it cost me rm7.50 for nasi+ayam+telur masin+sayur bayam+teh'o suam where I can get it for rm4.00 if I bought it at Pak Ali,UTP. Haha..but the foods in Labuan are quite expensive like in K.L even though it's not developed like K.L. I don't why...

p/s: I'm a lil' bit excited for tomorrow since I'll be doing my SIPP (Schlumberger Injuries Prevention Program) hopefully and then I can start working at the workshop. Yeay~

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Welcome back to myself~

Greating~

It has been a very longgg time (around 5 month I think~) since the last post. Yeah, I had been very busy for the past 5 month with an event called T.E.C = Technology, Education & Career. I was the Project Manager of this event plus being a 3rd Year student with a lots of projects and assignments. Well, it's the nature of a student I guess. Owh, not to forget, the internet in UTP was damn slow (until now,it has been better). Not only giving us trouble in surfing the internet, we couldn't even do research for our projects or assignments. Our students used to call UTP as Universiti Tenet Perlahan. Hahaha..it's match rite? But lately,the connection was getting better. Thank god but you what,we just came to the end of the semester. Now we're in study week. So,what's the point of having faster connection during this time?? (perhaps to encourage the students not to study?? Hehehe..) And paling menyakitkan hati is that,next sem I'm going to do my internship!! Gosh, UTP should fix this problem much earlier. We had this problem since last year.

Ok,enough for the internet thingy. As I mentioned before, next semester, I'll be doing my internship for 8 months (very long time rite??). Alhamdulillah, I got the offer from Schlumberger for my internship placement. For those who are not in Oil & Gas industry, you might find that Schlumberger is a funny name rite? Yes, indeed. I also laughed at the 1st time I heard the name. I even pronounced it as "slumbejer". But the fact is,this is the top leading company in providing services for Oil & Gas industry. It's a giant company,based in US and they pay you a lot. Just imagine, for internship, they pay me $350 = RM1200++ and also provide accommodation & transportation. My pocket money (given by MARA) is approximately around rm600 and plus some money given by Mom around rm200. So total up, I'll be getting around rm2000 during my internship. Wow!!! Hahaha..it's like a salary for some people who have worked for some times. I'm looking forward to start my internship soon (insyaAllah this coming June).


Wednesday, November 19, 2008

CoretanKu : the Present and the Future

Salam to all~

It's been a while since the last time I wrote in my blog. Well,currently I'm still in exam mode. However, I only have one last paper to go which is Reaction Engineering. It's the toughest subject for this semester. I'm hoping that I could do better during the exam. I had done 4 papers before and among fours, I think only two papers that I did well. Another two I would consider just ok la (I'm hoping I'll get at least C+ for those two papers. Hehe..but hopefully B or B+ laa..). So,this week would be the last week of this semester and officially I've completed my 2nd year 2nd sem in UTP. Next year, I'll be in 3rd year 1st sem. Oh gosh,I can't believe it,seriously. I'll be having ETP (Engineering Team Project) where we need to do a project in a group consist of all the Engineering's fields in UTP (Chemical, EE, Civil, Mechanical & Petroleum) and I wonder who will be team mates for the coming ETP. Not to be forgotten, I'll be applying for internship as well for next semester starting February onwards. I'm kinda scared actually since my seniours this semester had so much difficulties in applying for the placement. My target would be Oil & Gas company namely Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, Weatherford, Halliburton or Shell. I hope that I can get a place among those 5 companies that I mentioned just now. But though,the competition is very tough. UTP students are damn good is every aspect and I won't be easy to undergo the intership in those companies. I need to be the best among the best and show them that I have the qualities that they're looking for. And yet,I still think that I need to improve myself a lot and I only have like 2 months from now. I really need to work hard on it and I'll do anything to make sure that I will be doing my internship at those 5 companies especially Schlumberger. I'm like dying to work with them as they have a very great reputation in Oil & Gas industry and they pay a lot u know. Hehe..well,just pray for the best and may the best be with me, insyaAllah~

Friday, November 7, 2008

CoretanKu : Perasaan yg x tenteram

Salam,

Hmm, xtau nape tp skrg nie rase x tenteram sgt. Nak luah kn kt mmber pn xleh sbb xtau sbb ape x tenteram. Then tibe2 t'pikir la blog yg dh lame x update. So aku pn tulis la. Skrg nie rase mcm something bad will happen or I did something bad tp x perasaan. Buat sume bnda cm serba x kena. Kenape ek? Ya Allah, tenang kan lah hati hamba-Mu ini. Berikan petunjuk dan hidayah kpd ku Ya Allah. Adakah sbb amanah yg diberi nie? Yes,it's a huge responsibility that I need to carry with. Bkn senang nk jadi Project Manager to one of the biggest event in UTP nih. Expectation pun sgt lah tinggi. Aku mmg sgt cuak sebenarnyer. Mane penah jadi PM sebelum nie. Mampu kah aku menjadi PM yg b'wibawa?? Mampukah aku melaksanakan amanah & tggjwb yg diberikn sebaik mungkin?? Mcm yg b'main di fikiran. Dgn pemilihan EC yg x settle lg. Hrp2 1st meeting esok ok la. Harap diorg b'semangat utk melaksanakan TEC nie. Lps tu risau dgn pemilihan committee lg. Hrp2 diorg dpt memilih committee yg bagus2 la. Ke aku nie yg risau t'lebih?? Final exam start Selasa dpn tp aku x study pn sgt. Dok cbuk dgn TEC nie. Yela, selagi x settle,mmg xleh nk study. Even nk tido pn asyik t'pikir2 psl TEC. Boleh kate sume benda yg aku buat, mesti pikir psl TEC. Hrp2 aku leh la control otak aku nie drp asyik t'pikirkn psl TEC nie. Besar betul penangan TEC nie kt aku yeee. Xpela, mungkin nie ujian dr Allah utk aku. Supaya aku lebih tabah & kuat. I need to take everything positively. Walaupun ade few masalah time awal2 Hicom TEC nie dibentuk. Tp biase la tu kan,setiap bnda kt dunia nie mesti ade mslh. From that we'll learn. That's a challenge for me. Skrg aku just buat yg t'baik utk TEC nie dan juga utk final sem nie. Aku berdoa agar aku b'jaya dlm kedua-dua perkara nie. Mungkin bila kita diberi ujian atau ditimpa musibah, kita akan lebih ingat kpd Tuhan. Makna nyer Tuhan sebenar nyer syg kat kita. Dia xnk kita hanyut & lalai dlm hal2 duniawi nie. Setiap kali kita lalai je,dia akan uji kita. Supaya kita ingat kpd-Nya. Tp tidak b'makna org yg tidak lalai itu tidak di uji. Selagi kita b'gelar hamba Allah,selagi itulah Allah akan uji kita dgn pelbagai ujian. Utk menambah & meningkatkan keiamanan serta ketaqwaan kpd-Nya. Aku b'syukur sgt2 sbb aku masih berada di jalan yg benar. Walau pernah suatu ketika,aku terpesong. Tp Allah itu Maha Penyayang. Dia beri aku petunjuk ke jln yg lurus & benar. Itu sume lumrah hidup. When everytime we make a mistake, we must learn from it. People who never made any mistake will not learn anything. Mungkin kita jahil pd masa tu. Yg pasti,kita belajar & cari jln yg betul. Ok la,dah byk aku tulis nie. Ingt nk tulis sikit je. Tp Alhamdulillah,hati aku lebih tenang skrg. Walaupun masih terdapat sedikit kegusaran di hati ni, tp hrp2 ia akan pergi & aku akn jd lebih tenang. InsyaAllah~~