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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 First Post for 2009

Lots of people asking for updates, hmm... i shall update now so as not to disappoint my friends. Now a days don't really feel like blogging, i'm getting lazy. Hope that 2009 will be much better =D

Sunset @ Pulau Busing

New Year Resolution 2009

To ride safely on road
Spend more time with family
Save more money
Get a new job
Good health
Exercise regularly
Complete a 1/2 marathon with knee are working fine
Go somewhere far for holiday

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Hey guys, it has been a long time sine I last update my blog or I should say more then a month. I am kind of lazy and tired due to work man, unexpected OTs and training from the company. So when I reach home go online check my mails then goes to bed after that, I don't even have that extra energy to stay awhile more to blog. You might be wondering why during my off day I did not update right? I spent my time going out to relax and meet friends, doing some St. John stuff down in EVSS.

2 weeks ago I finally got my confirmation from my company but the sad thing is that there is no increment. It is so disappointing after working for more then 3 months in the company. There is lots of better job in terms of the S 11 sign and working hours out there. I'm just waiting for a good opportunity from else where after I get my bonus at the end of the year and one more bonus at the end of January which I guess will be at least 2 months. After that I will plan to change my job once the time is right.

This month I’m station at the jetty for work, the "Jetty man" who brings in all the big vessel and setting up all the connection to the ship. I enjoy being at the jetty although it is tiring when I have to cycle up and down from point to point but time pass really very first when there is vessel coming in. Work get so busy that you can hardly find time to eat, I had 2 times of experience that I only mange to go back to the pantry to eat my meal drink a cup of water then go back to the jetty again. The whole dam process to eat is just less the 10mins, that’s when the ship comes back to back to the same jetty.

Next good thing is that you can enjoy all weather out there, rain or shine, hot or windy, day or night. But the best part is the beautiful sunset in the evening and sunrise in the morning. It’s another 2 more night shift then I have my precious long weekend off day which I can spend with my love ones. Opps not for this coming Sunday which I need to attend the F1 race to cover first aid duty for the final day. Hope the time spent there is worth while. Do come back for more updates and remember to flood my tag board, just like Xueling say that I bluff her coz I promise to update and Kenneth pressing for updates.

From one of the Tank Top

2 Big Vessel

Jetty View

Jetty Pipe Lines

At the Jetty Platform

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Hello everyone, it have been a long time since i last updated my bloggy. I'm too tired and lazy to update as i fall sick recently with a terrible flu, yet i still have to work because i have not receive my confirmation and if i take MC they will deduct my pay. So i took some medication to recover from it and i makes me sleep after i reach home from work till the next morning till i go to work. I did not feel like blogging then.

080808 should be a good and auspicious day but it turned out to be bad. Had my afternoon shift and everything was fine and till about 8pm in the evening one of the storage tank overflowed. Totally spoil the team day, all of us was busy for this damn shit. A few of us went to look for lots of barang barang to cover the asphalt on the tank ground if not it will melt and i will damage the tank structure. Busy covering the circumference of the tank with the droplets of black field oil dripping down on us. By then my blue coverall have become 1/2 black with all these oil stain all over me.

When the tools all arrived, we climb up the tank and clean the whole entire platform which is filled with a thick layer of oil. Squat on the platform for hours clean up with oil to the containers and cleaning up the stain with Jet fuel which we carried up all the way up from another place. We just continue to clean and not knowing that it was already 2am in the morning, it was almost done and the operation manager tell us to stop clean and we will continue another day. Went back to the mess room to hydrate myself. We are so happy that the OM say that we can take the specially arrange 0230 boat back home. We quickly have our bath and went to the boat to the wait. Reach home at 0330hrs then straight away K.O on the bed. I will never forget the Tank 183 in my life. This incident is cause by human error which my supervisor did the wrong calculations and cause the overflow.

Had my off day and I went down to EVSS to clear some documents with the cadets and some issue with the teacher. Then went for a walk around TM and went home after that, i spent my 2nd off day sleeping at home to replenish my energy for the next block of my work. Then the same cycle comes again, another 7days till off again.

Wake up early last Saturday and went down to EVSS again to collect some cert from the cadets so that i can submit for some applications of badges then took a cabby down to St. John NHQ to meet up with Chui Yee to submit the documents and collect the blank certs for printing. My objective is to get MR Chua to sign some certs so that i can purchase the badges but i did not waste my effort to go down even to clear some documents. Walk to Suntec to see the career fair and it was very crowded not with Singaporean but plenty of foreigners to apply for jobs. There is nothing there that interest me except for the Uni booth which i went to ask on some off the Uni course that i want to study in the near future. Walk over to MS Food Court to have my lunch as i knew that it will be crowded at Suntec side. I shop around MS after lucnh before i make my way to work.

Work as per normal that day till 8 plus till my supervisor coms me.
Supervisor : "Chen Come In"
Me: "Send"
Supervisor : " Want to do OT anot, I just receive call from Alpha team need one more man OT"
Me:"ok lor"
Supervisor: "Paiseh leh no body cover liao then ask you because tomolo so and so cover OT le"

Working night shift OT is good money but you can hardly get any rest. Finished the night shift and 3 of us took the 0640 first boat back to main land. Took a bus home and reach back at 0805hrs and mange to fall asleep only at 0830hrs then sleep till 12pm then i need to wash up and go to work again for afternoon shift again. It is very tired as i spent more then 16hrs for work. i tell myself to endure because 2 more days off day coming.

Tonight will be night shift and tomorrow one more then off for me. For those who have nothing to do at night can always chat with me on MSN mobile to help me kill my time if not from 2-4am then my eyes open 1/2 very hard to endure. =) I'll update whenever i'm feel so don't feel dishearten when the blog is not updated. =P

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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Hey guys, it have been more then a week since my last entry. I'm rather tired after work last week so i hardly spent more then 1/2hr on my com. Basically only clearing emails and doing CPBS documents which suck up all my energy.

Went for my bike lesson 3 on last Tuesday evening and did not manage to clearing any of the subjects. It spoil my day maybe because i push myself to hard to try to complete all my subjects but did not focus and do well during lesson.

This week during my night shift i did not try to sleep as i know that when i just close my eyes i will be stone when i wake up and i will do the wrong thing. Manage to endure the first night by red bull due to the long day i had before work. The last night shift was rather relax as the time pass quite fast.

After work uncle chew ask me to go to old airport road to have our breakfast and he gave me a treat. We had the famous "Law Mee" and it was delicious, i can say with $3 you can have fresh fish and lots of duck meat inside the bowl of noodle. Head down to Hougang that morning to have my hair cut at aunt saloon, she cut for me almost every time i goes down. She gave me a hair wash follow by a face wash. During the wash i fell asleep unknowingly as I'm too tired.

Take a bus down to EVSS in the noon to clear all the out standing documents for the CPBS. Stayed that quite late till around 5+ and went Simei to meet PT for dinner. Even I'm so tired after work and done so much stuff that day, i feel happy and good because i did not waste my rest day sleeping at home which i could so. Had a nice shower before having my beautiful sleep till next day noon. =D

Woke up and mum have prepare "breakfast" for me, had that and i did some stuff before i went to Suntec to get the national heritage trail tickets for the cadets on "Expedition X" and there goes my off day again.

Wake up as normal that morning which i suppose to go for work, but got a day off because i went for dragon boat race for my company. Reach lower seletar reservoir about 0730hrs got our breakfast sponsor by company and did some warming up before the race. I thought i will be in the team to row the boat, but i was tasked to be the drummer =( we manage to qualify to the next round even the timing is not very good during the heats. Prepare for the next race and again ask me to drum, this time round even more =( we did not get through the next round even we came in 3rd because the officials are only taking the best 2 from each race. We lost by 4 sec but the team was very happy as we can row together as a team with the few training that we had before the race.

Melvin from the sales department gave me a lift to Tampines and i went to EVSS again to clear the CPBS document once more. Reason because the applications forms are being rejected due to some minor mistake. Had a small meeting after lunch and went to to rest for a while before going to downtown east that evening to have sakura buffet for the senior cohesion. I went home while the rest went for "Pool" as i have to work the next morning.

As usual went for work with that tired and sleepy face for morning shift, the day was good as there are not much work to do. So i went to the jetty to pick up more skill on berthing of vessel and connecting of loading arms. Went to NHQ to submit the applications to Chui Yee that evening.

Had my re-lesson 3 on Tuesday morning and i manage to clear all subjects that day. I'm so happy as I'm one step closer to my goal. =) Went for work after that. Yesterday no need to go to terminal for work but company sent me for safety course. It was from 0830hrs-0500hrs, total waste of time for the course. Listening to those subjects which i had taken during my polytechnic time. So decided to Zzz... in class wahaha =D. Came back home after that and had dinner clear my mails before i turn in early.

Decided to blog today because I'm working night shift again, i have to sleep take a nap later in the noon if not i will be a zombie at night. Tomorrow another night shift and it will be a long weekend off again =) do date me on Sunday and Monday if you are free. Here are some pictures taken during work, please give a shout on my tag if not my blog looks rather boring and dead.

Sisters Island

Southern Island

Another Sunset Sky

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Its another week again, don't really remember what done on my last off day... Ya i know already, i went down to Funan IT Mall to collect my free mini note for my Starhub Maxonline plan. Reached city hall and it was raining heavily, luck i brought along my umbrella and manage to reach there with my shoes wet. I pressed for the queue and it was about 150 number away. I walked around challenger and got bored so decided to sit outside the shop and play my PSP. After a while my eye become like this -_- and i took a little nap there. I woke up on time an the queue is just 10 numbers away.

Head back to Tampines to shop for some ingredients for Japanese curry to cook for the next day lunch. I also get some bread for my breakfast and i am like a auntie carrying stuff all over my hands. The went to starhub to look for Siau Ling and had a few words with her while waiting for Joyce to come for dinner. Then met Alvin, Hui Ting and Yan Ting at starhub shop and Joyce came and we went to Mac to have our dinner. Had a great time chatting with her since i saw her about a year ago at Marina Square.

Finally got home and cook my curry and in between got my mini note started with all the installation of OS and softwares. Took me about an hour to get the curry done and pack some of it into the container to bring to work. Then went to bed early because of work the next day.

Met Yuan Zheng on friday night after my work and took a bus down to his work place. We had supper nearby his work place and chit chat till 2+ before he send me home to catch some sleep before going for a jog in the morning.

I woke up late and suppose to meet YZ at 7.30am but i reach at 7.45am =X. We went for a 2.4km jog round EVSS and i was rather full of energy and stamina after not excerising for the pass 3 months ever since i went Taiwan in april. Follow by breakfast at the coffee shop and went back in to clear some issues with the Mrs Cho. Rush back home after that to get my helmet before going to CDC to have my bike lesson. Completed and pss my second practical and heading for the third one soon. Then go home sleep for 2 hrs there goes again to work.

Can't take it that night as i was really very tired due to the above activities and went for a liitle nap during work. End work and went home to have my precious sleep that morning and proceed for my second night shift. Same thing again nap again since there is not much work. It seems that the more i sleep the more tired i am. =D

YZ met me over at my place to have dinner before i head for my last night shift and he gave me a lift to Eunos. Went to work as usual and it started to rain. Went to one of the jetty to disconnect the hose and let go the ship. Following by instruction was given to me to stay there for and ship come to the same jetty for loading. Tide was rather normal but the stupid captain took one and the half hours to get the go dam ship to the jetty. I waited there like a fool to berth that "Armanda" ship and start to connect the hose to the ship. After that went back to the rest room to cook my tom yam noodle for supper and had three hours sleep as i am not feeling well with my stomach. Woke up do soem area cleaning and got a routine check on the ship i in charge then change up go home. Nice and sweet night shift to end the week.

Took a bus to Bedok Mac that morning to meet Jane for the financial report and its a rubbish wasting my time and explaining to me about their "GOOD" policy. Then went home to sleep till evening bfore waking up to have dinner and did some SJ stuff before i turn in for the day.

Off day and i went to Tampines UOB centre to apply for the internet banking token so i can make online banking. Then have my breakfast at pasta mania and later went sport connection to bought a laptop case. Head to EVSS to get the CBPS document from Yan Ting and off i go for my blood donation at HSA. ITs my 19X today and i'm going to hit 20X by the end of this year. Had dinner at peoples park and shop around central mall then went home. Hey guys regular donors kindly date me the next time if you are going for your next donation. Same old thing tomorrow work again and i have to wait for another week for my off day. =(

Credit to Kenneth for the pics

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