Last day at Shell

The last day was too stressful...i didnt have enough sleep because i was out clubbing with my colleagues the night before and i havent even practiced anything for my presentation till the day itself. BUT it all went well.. Thank you all who made my learning experience such a memorable and joyful one. Im missing the office already.

Picture of me giving a 30 minute long presentation in the alpha boardroom



Me and Boss No. 1, Haji Zaid


Me and Boss No.2 on the right in purple Abdul Basir


Behind - Audrey, Edwin and Mahathir
Me and Maria


Posing after my presentation..stress reliever...phew...


Azlinu... the person i worked with for the business excellence project


My cubicle comrades. Zairi, me and Aqil. Thanks Aqil for all the "entertaining" jokes.


Mureen!!


Sigh..didnt manage to get a picture with the rest of the ppl because of the chinese new year holidays.. but oh well..

genting->penang->australia

I was trying very hard to enjoy whatever is left of my holidays..so it started with a trip to visit uncle lim.


All of us in the car but Jc driving. Cant get a shot with him.


Finally learned how to parkour. Me doing a tic tac against the wall


Posing happily after our investments in Genting paid off. Bwahahhaha. We beat the odds..


Me and the grandmasters of gambling. both of their bets hit a numbered bet in roullete..crazy shit..




Ahh... nothing much in penang.. just food.. mainly went there for food

Lets start off with some assam laksa....


Some penang lobak...yummmm


Penang Char Kueh Teow made by the sisters at lorong selamat


We waited 1 hour under the hot sun in the line for it and it costs 6 bucks a plate. total ripoff. no more going back there. i think they are over rated.





Then shopping at Queensbay mall.. Me and my brother.. i think this is the first picture of him in my blog. Well anyways..glad i spent whatever time i had left in msia with you.. it was good times catching up.

self explanatory

Happy 22nd Jc!

Happy birthday bro!!




Hope you liked our concoction, made with love, delivered with care, drank without a clue

Since your bday was such a public scene, you had to drink a cup of wasabi diluted alcohol and a cup with a pax of pounded chilli padi which sern liang and i pain stakingly wash, pulled the tips off and pounded with the kampung like pounding stone thingy

Guess which is which?
Left wasabi, the other chilli padi...hot like shit



Being your bitch for the night.. hahahha..this is sick. Wearing my new specs which i chipped on the night itself.And it was the first time i wore it out..GREAT


Jc managed to cake my face while i did to him.



Hope you enjoyed your birthday. Thanks for being such a great friend, brother and a associate chef, teaching me your spring onion beef and tumeric chicken. Thanks for all the haku moments which cheered us on. Stay haku..stay jc

Happy Birthday Bro!!!

Honsuka Campsite

I attended the Eagle Link-Rover Crew-Court of Honor meeting of the Eagle Scout Group.
The campsite was somewhere along hulu langat. at some turn off in some kampung area. The place was so secluded that there was no one from the public there, even on a sunday. But of course the road there was like...a kampung road. I pity nanda he drove his lowered fully modified naturally aspired car through the pot holes. The road was so bad that his car wheels got stuck in the holes and the chasis was on the road. It was like on first gear, then a scraping sound.. then stop..then first gear again..deeper scraping sound. There was once I had to get out of the car and push the car out of the hole. Besides the chasis wreck, the branches along the way scratched his car and the other. When we reached there, he took out his ciggs and dragged as if his life depended on it..

We took about a 30 minutes hike inside the jungle trying to locate the waterfall, but it was no where near as we couldnt hear it after 30 minutes, so we decided to takea dip

Me, Nanda and Vick at our dam before taking a dip



Eagle scout group in woodcraft sign. luckily the 3 of us remembered



It was so refreshing to get out of the city and head back to nature. Got a leech in my sock for about an hour or two. Didnt know it was inside eventhought i felt it.. I though it was some insect, so i wiggled my toes to kill it, then it stopped. But when i headed back to the river for a second dip, there it was all fat like and full. My socks was full of blood and the fat leech was still on me. So i pulled it off with a leaf and stepped it to death. =)

Eventhough i had like 5 hours of sleep the previous night, the jungle is sure refreshing and it managed to keep me awake and enthusiastic the entire time.

Month of February

In between all that time, i hope to meet everyone before i leave.. sigh..

Happy 21st "Joleen Tham Hsu Lynn"!

Hope you enjoyed your all in one maturity kit. Took us an extra set of manhoods to get what you got. Shall not enclose here :)

Anyways, thanks for being a great friend and company. Eventhough ive just met you in aussie, but the times we spent together were priceless, like laughing about whatever nonsence your horny brain could think about. Hahaha..were going to rock SEF man!!!

HAPPY 21st!!!

The Happy Melbourne Family plus SL and Rowena





6 of us... Aik.. we miss you... as you can see.. SL is replacing you.

haphazard cogitation

haphazard thoughts
drifting voices
varying views
many perspectives

hardened back
wizened up
thankful for what i have
greatful for what i have found

hands wet
deeper in life
decisions arise

nearing crossroads
no retreating, no astern
gasps and ponders while it ticks, congitating

blessed against statistic
opportunity against chance
fearing to let go; longing for more through time

youre almost here...
so close.. so far..
with a blink of an eye, everything will be where it was.
everything will fit like a jigsaw piece into the picture of life
which you are

Working in PD for the 2nd week

Was in the pd from the 14th to 19th Feb. Was overseeing the project, shotblasting machine installation and the requalification of the rail tail wagon

Some pictures at work. Other pictures cannot be published due to confidentiality issues

RTW with ventilation hose and lighting inside during the Magnetic Particle Inspection


Meter during the hydro testing of the tank


Contrast paint sprayed on the testing spots during the Magnetic Particle Inspection to check for cracks.


In full gear at the reconditioning plant(safety specs, helmet, fire retardant jacket)


Friday was offday because of awal muharram (is that how you spell it?"). So it was sunbathing and 37 laps in the pool for me.

Dont have shades with me.. so i guess the safety specs is as good as it gets



The view from my sunbathing spot


Random shot


Picture of the sunset taken from my room


This time, i only at room service food.. didnt bother to go down to the coffee house coz it would be too sad. I practically tried EVERYTHING on the menu by now

The lunch before i left for PD, Club sandwich


Tropical platter and salmon steak with balsamic sauce


Chicken chop


Tropical platter, lychee and mee goreng.. the mee goreng was damn nice


Singapore Fried Mee Hoon and mushroom soup.

Which pair of shoes?? hrmm.....

While waiting for my boss to give me work at the office...ahh.. this is how my office looks like. finally got a chance to take a picture early in the morning of the office.

This is my office desk. 2 laptops, 1 for engineering drawings and the other for internal mail,shell network resources and of course internet. The two people who sits infront of me are Aqil(Incharge of all the LPG tankers) on the left and Tee Siong(incharge of the distribution of the shell tong gas in the klang valley) on the right.




View directly on the right of me, Venesa(in charge of bulk sales in south peninsular) on the left and Nazreen(in charge of engineering matter of installation of tanks at customers,factory,hotels) on the right.


View from the left of me. Hanif(handles order processing) on the left, Zairi(handles metal management, purchasing,s crapping and allocation of cylinders) on the right



As i was saying, while waiting for my boss to give me work, i was surfing online and spoke to my brother. Since he was coming back, Im planning to get a pair of onitsuka tigers since my brother is coming back from US and the shoes are cheaper in compared to australia. and you cannot find them in malaysia. anyways.. i narrowed down to 3 designs






Probably going to get the first one displayed..what do you think? hehehe, time to splurge on myself with my pay cheque and allowances. =)

Fuel for thought

Conversation on the way to work with my dad

Dad:Guess how many miles a battle tank can travel on a gallon?
Me: Err.. 4 miles?
Dad: Reverse it..
Me: Huh?
Dad: 4 gallons per mile...
Me: Are you sure the consumption is so inefficient?
Dad:Yeah...

Then to my disbelief i searched online.. and... its 8 Gallons PER MILE DAMMIT!! for an M1A1 Abrams Tank.

Then i came across lotsa figures on the fuel consumption of the US Army.

Here are the facts which kept me off guard

"M-1 Abrams tank can eat up 252 gallons an hour in battle"

"500,000 gallons a day to supply an armored division of 348 tanks "

"A B-52 bomber gulps down 86 barrels per hour"

"F-4 Phantom fighter/bombers devour 40 barrels per hour"

"At peak thrust, F-15 fighters burn 25 gallons per minute".

"An F-16 jet on a training mission ignites more fuel in a single hour than the average car owner consumes in two years. "

"To reach supersonic speeds, a pilot turns on the plane’s afterburners which can triple a jet’s speed and increase fuel consumption twenty times. With its afterburner kicked in, Cutler states, the "relatively fuel-efficient" F-15 fighter torches fuel at the astounding rate of four gallons per second — 14,400 gallons per hour."

"Now try to magnify these figures by factoring in the 300 US jets stationed on four aircraft carrier groups in the Gulf, another 700 planes stationed in Saudi Arabia and 22 Stealth bombers."

Now the conclusion

"Between wars, one would think the military’s main purpose would be to "guard the peace." Not so. During times of peace, Tom Cutler writes: "The military’s primary objective [emphasis added] is to ensure adequate oil supplies for the national defense...." Cutler should know: he once headed NATO’s Petroleum Planning Committee and the is the author of The Military Demand for Oil (Petroleum Economist, London, England)."

Read the whole article here
http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=593

No wonder US attacked Iraq...oh... like duh...

Happy Belated Birthday Iqram!!

Really sorry it took sometime to find a picture of you and me and to upload stuff on photobucket..but anyways..being the youngest of the lot, 31st december baby!!!

Happy Birthday man! Glad to have finally met up and laugh like we used to, as if we just left high school yesterday. Thanks for being such a great pal under all circumstances.