What a wonderful week

Wake up – drive to work – trapped in the traffic jam – drive home – trapped in the jam again – sleep  

Life goes back to this kind of dreadful routine again… I miss last week so much because I had GREAT FUN along the week!  

I went on a rafting trip in Gopeng, Perak on 22 Oct to 24 Oct 2006 with my friend’s colleagues without my friend’s presence. Weird right?  

* This situation just reminds me so much over Venn Diagram (Refresher: Venn Diagram, in mathematics, a diagram representing a set or sets and the logical relationships between them. The sets are drawn as circles. An area of overlap between two circles (sets) contains elements that are common to both sets, and thus represents a third set. Circles that do not overlap represent sets with no elements in common (disjoint sets) *  

 

Before the trip, I was quite worried that I couldn’t get along with the gang, but thank god, I just blended in! It is either I’m too sampat or they are outgoing indeed…  

The following photos speak for themselves, about how fun was the trip:-  

   

I was so surprised, seeing the commotion at all the places we go cari makan in Ipoh… I even overheard someone talking loudly over the phone while passing by the most famous chicken rice shop, "@#$%^&*! Everywhere is already cramp full of people! @#$%^&! Where to eat la?"  

 

Why everywhere also so many people one?   

After the trip, came Eddy’s big day!  

 
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Eddy’s the first one to get married, that’s why he has full commitment from us, for the wedding dinner and bride-picking. Hopefully I won’t be the last, or everyone will be too sien to attend anymore occasion like this.  

Last but not least, let’s bet, WHO WILL BE THE NEXT PERSON/COUPLE TO GET MARRIED. Here comes the long awaited betting table, person/couple with higher probability, gets the lower betting odds. So, faster place your bet now!  

Call me ME, Miscellaneous Engineer – Part 3

Another miscellaneous scope of work of mine is to prepare shop drawing for gantries before sending them for fabrication. “What is shop drawing?” I asked this question when my senior gave me the assignment. What I manage to capture is that, shop drawing is not a construction drawing, neither an as-built drawing. It is the drawing prepared to be referred by site people and to ease the construction (I know this is a vain explanation…) in brief, what I need to do is propose the dimensions of the left and right vertical posts as well as the dimension of the horizontal girder according to the finished road level. 

I was instructed to go on duty at night time on 16 Oct 2006, there would be a gantry-launching. I needed to be there during the launching, so that they could put the blame on me in case if the gantry instead of looking like this:-

 

It looked like either one of these:- 

“@#$%^&*! Who’s the idiot preparing the shop drawing?”

“Neh! Samantha loh!”

As asserted by Squashy Boy, working at night is not bad after all. 

Instead of having scorching sun, I had romantic moonlight. 

What a romantic night…Yawn…. 

I also had companion from those macho safety officers. 

My initial intention was to give these 2 macho guys a macho shot, but end up they looked like skeleton-alive or invisible man pulak…

The steps

1) Delivery of gantry to site.

2) Erecting vertical posts at left and right sides

 

Firework? No, it’s welding work for the plate.

One side done.

3) Fixing the horizontal girder

It’s done!

Brighter future?

Someone keeps on commenting that I will have brighter future if I go develop my career in Hollywood rather than being an engineer like now (obviously he’s trying to tease, I think my performance at work must upset him very much). The reason he gave was: Mat sallehs like my kind of look. And my kind of look refers to eyes like slits, high cheekbone and flat nose. Trying to convince me even more, he said, “Look at Lucy Liu, Pocahontas and Mulan, they are famous characters, you know?”

        

Pocahontas? Mulan?