Entri Pertama dari Pesisir Luar Pantai

Mungkin anda pelik mendengar perkataan Pesisir Luar Pantai bukan? Itu bukan lah sesuatu yang pelik kerana ketika pertama kali saya mendengar perkataan itu, tanpa ragu-ragu saya terus membuat muka seperti memakan makanan yang masam. Anda dapat bayangkan? Ya seperti itu.

Sekarang saya berada di pesisir luar pantai Thailand. Mungkin anda pelik bagaimana di tengah lautan ada sambungan internet. Pelik tetapi benar dan inilah buktinya. Semasa saya bekerja di pelantar pesisir luar pantai di Malaysia, rata-rata semua tidak menyediakan kemudahan internet untuk semua orang. Kemudahan internet ada tetapi hanya untuk membuat kerja dan dikhaskan hanya untuk orang-orang tertentu di atas pelantar. Tetapi tidak di Thailand. Kemudahan internet disediakan untuk semua orang. Maka semua orang tanpa segan silu boleh menggunakan kemudahan internet selama mungkin. Seperti saya ini. Setiap masa memeriksa emel untuk membuat kerja dan membuat rujukan bersama orang-orang di ofis saya. Terasa seperti berada di darat.

Berada di Thailand mungkin suatu perkara yang susah untuk semua orang kerana kita perlu mengadaptasi gaya kehidupan dengan pekerja-pekerja warganegara Thailand di atas pelantar ini. Tetapi bagi yang sudah biasa, bekerja di sini bukanlah satu masalah yang besar. Ternyata rakyat Thailand memahami kehendak orang-orang Malaysia yang berbangsa Melayu dan beragama Islam. Mengapa? Setiap kali saya hendak makan, mereka sentiasa akan menunjukkan makanan mana yang dimasak menggunakan daging khinzir. Tetapi alhamdulillah setiap hari mesti ada makanan laut. Mungkin ada sedikit keraguan tentang periuk yang sama digunakan untuk memasak tetapi apakan daya, darurat sudah keadaan di sini.

Tetapi berada di Thailand adalah lebih baik daripada berada di negara China. Sekurang-kurangnya masih ramai lagi rakyat Thailand terutamanya di selatan Thailand yang beragama Islam. Ok saya sudah mengarut tak tentu pasal. Kegirangan kerana esok saya sudah boleh balik ke darat.

P/S : entri penuh bahasa melayu kerana terlalu banyak berbahasa Inggeris di atas pelantar.

Two Puluh Nine

That is why they called it a countdown. The number will keep decreasing. But how I loved you? Will always be increasing.

P/S : You are far away but always near in my heart

Three Puluh

Counting days. And today I will know whether it is reactive or not.

P/S : Oh I'm very sure is not reactive.

Are We There Yet?

Will I be prepared for my big day? Yes I am always ready for that. But I am just taking things a little slow to make sure that everything will go my way with a little opinion and suggestion about this and that. What I am not prepared now is that the money that will be out of the pocket to buy things. Well the overall budget is there but just imagine on what some people might suggest without thinking about how we really want to spend it all on? It will be an obligation to say no but at least I am relieved that I have the rights to say YES and also the right to say NO.

I'll be on medical break for almost 2 weeks before my site works begins. So I don't have enough time to prepare everything by myself and I need people who knew what I want to help me with the preparations. 33 days to go!

And I need a time off from the office to do my things. Staying in the office will not help me anything plus I will be bored to death staying in the office for more than 8 hours, pretending at my temporary cubicle that I have things to do and to work on. How lame right? But that is the nature of the site based work. We do have plenty and tons of work onsite(plus standby where we can just sit the whole day doing nothing) but once we're too long in the office, we will be left unrest in our not so comfortable seat. We'll be running up and down the office and we'll be in and out of the office trying to make ourselves look like we do have works to do and many things to think.

Wifey to be is out of town and it sucks when she's not around. Wish you were here right now :(

Blabbering Bollocks

There were times where things are doing great to you but this is the time where things are not that great to us. I have spent too much time for my work that I don't have time for myself or my loved ones especially to both of my beautiful and charming girls.

The future prospect and possibility is showing towards the positive side. There is an old saying, no sacrifice no glory. Well I think sacrifices is all I've done all these while. The pay was good and alhamdulillah I couldn't complaint more on my earnings but with the money that I can have in the whole world, I couldn't but the precious times that I have lost.

Family needs me and my loved one need my attention.

Oh God! Please help me! Show me the way and show me some signs.

Bored again and again

Believe it or not I am going into my 7th months with ROSEN. Quite an achievement for myself. Why? Because I have never been very loyal when it comes to work. Trust me I bored with things even worse a girl change their handbags or a tech freak change their gadgets. True story.

First place I worked at is Aquaria KLCC as a part time Customer Service Assistant. At first I was happily working there when suddenly every friends that I have made there quit the job or be changed to another department. I was left alone in the CSA department, moving nowhere. So I decide to find some other places before I got another job in a traveling agency company called Tri-D Travel and Tours.

Sales executive was my position there. What is my role? To make sales for the company from the government sectors. I am a newbie in that area but I guess I was just trying to guess what will be my greatest ability. It was okay traveling every single day and work without any time boundaries. I get to see people and talk about anything to get a strong relationship bonding for me to do my work. Made some new friends and clients. But shit happened and I started to get bored with the work. So I decide, let's go back to studying and finish my degree.

4 years I stopped working and concentrate on my studies. I didn't do any good anyway but at least I have finished my studies with a scroll in my hand. Yeah ho!

Back to job hunting again. JobStreet, StarJobs and almost all engineering companies website is what I looked at every single minute. Until I got a few interviews before I was offered an acceptable salary at Bright Fire Protection. A company which work 6 days a week with some crappy office I must say. Guess how long I was there? 4 days before I got an interview at Matco Malaysia Sdn Bhd. Why leave? Because I think I don't agree with working 6 days a week, in an office. No one does that anymore. Can you please get a newspaper and read some statistics, Mr Bright Fire Protection? Thank you.

Matco Malaysia. An Oil and Gas Instrumention company. Providing instrumentation equipments and services for Oil and Gas pipeline. The post? Sales and Technical Engineer. What did I do? Sales, proposals, documentations, invoices and quotations. I did enjoy learning about instrumentations when I realized my learning curve was very shallow. A lot to learn but limited to only a certain level. And a very confusing management. I got bored with the job, AGAIN. The website is my best friend from that moment onwards. I was looking for a field job actually but my current post in Matco doesn't give me much opportunity to travel and get the field experience that I want. Then I got an interview which I have to lie to get a leave that I am not entitled to. Unpaid leave we all call it. But the risk taken paid off when I was offered a position at ROSEN Inspection as a Survey Engineer.

In May, after going for a holiday with my fiancee's family in New Zealand, I reported to ROSEN Inspection for my first day. A lot of new things that I need to learn when I was nearly gave up. If it wasn't because I want to get married, I would have leave at that time and look for another job. Staying in the company make me actually love my job and I started to love traveling.

Long story short, here I am. Still standing strong in ROSEN. Tomorrow is my appraisal interview and presentation. Slides ready and I am good to go. Few things are in my head right now but I need to do what I have to do.

Morale of the story : Some risk are worth to be taken. Just trust yourself and be strong.

Lastly, I will still love you even for another thousand years to come, Baby D

Beauty and the Beast

The title might fit the story but since I think it is, that's the title that has been chosen for this entry.

It has been almost 4 months working in a new company. New environment, new colleagues and new experience. Everyday is a brand new day when there were many things to be learned and to catch up. This happens not only when you were working for a technology based company, but also applies to other fields. A friend once said that when you started working, you will never stop learning even after you have retired and settle down.

Back to the main reason of why I'm writing this post. Well I guess no one likes working. It is very annoying, very unpleasant and all sort of things that people always whine about their work. Same goes to me. I whine and whine to myself whenever I am working. But that is the reality of work where nothing goes the way you want it to be. But as long as it pays the bill, people decide to stay at their current work. But I am slowly adapting to my work and slowly I fell in love with it. Right now I am still enjoying my work even though it is very tiring and very time consuming. Why time consuming? Because of a few reasons that I decide not to spill it here. Company's private and confidential knowledge property. Well this is the beast part of my current work. It may shift to the beauty part especially when the figure's on the bank account has been changed end of the month.

The beauty? Here what I think is the beauty of my job. Firstly, I was given a chance to earn extra money every time I am assigned for a job outside of the office which I'll be spending 80% of the year. An extra day means extra allowances. Then I have the chance to travel which is very good. Even though it was only limited to the Asia Pacific region, but I guess that is fine for me. I do enjoy traveling and I really wish that I can travel everywhere and see the world. The best thing is I have the chance to travel to places that have never been thought by most people. For example places like Urumqi, Hami, Shanshan, Guazhou and Khorgos in China. I have never heard of these places before until I was assigned to execute some work last month. It was a priceless experience that I can never stop sharing with other people. Beauty? Yes it was a great and beautiful experience and place.

There goes my Beauty and the Beast. Until next time,peeps. Heading for bed.