O&G: Not For The Faint Hearted

I'm sorry I can only update my blog now; I'm having some major (i mean major!) situation at the refinery I'm working at. Basically it involves a lifted 46" feed pipe into the distillation column. Basically we are not quite sure what caused the lifting, and we are now looking at the possibility of the incorrect settings on the support spring systems. Long story short; the maintenance team are put on standby 24/7. To make things more interesting, I am covering both the maintenance planner and the mechanical supervisor job.

I'm not here to talk or ramble about what is going on; I rather talk about the experiences gained from these major challenges. Despite the good pay, being in the O&G industry is indeed tough. It's a dynamic work environment; anything can happen in anytime, and it takes sheer determination, hardwork and being plain nuts and crazy to survive in this world. Imagine, being called early in the morning if something came up then requires urgent attention; imagine working 18-20 hours straight without proper rest. We are also juggling our acts up in pressing situations; we have scaffoldings to erect, insulations team on standby, bolting crew, even heavy lifting machinery. Operations, Engineering, and Technology will sync up their mind body and soul to complete the tasks at hand. Every second counts, because in the end, time is money (literally speaking!). We are indeed playing with our lives in our everyday worklife. At sometime, even our body could not cope with the workload and stress; not to mention our biological clock gone nuts due to working shifts; lack of sleep and so on. So in the end if you guys complaining that we got paid so much, trust me..we deserved every single cent.

Till the next post...

A Manic Monday Indeed...

Hey all. I just got back from this Chinese dinner organized by my department; basically to celebrate the completion of project we're involved in (more on that in the future, perhaps..too tired to tell you guys about it now). I was the emcee for the ceremony (yet again..FYI, I am now the unofficial emcee for my department). I've been taking the emcee job for many occasions now. Of course it's a good thing career wise as you increase your so-called 'visibility' to the top management (the CEO was there, GMs and SMs were there), but sometimes you can't help it but to think 'Aisehhh, takde orang lain lagi ker nak jadi...'(loosely translated means Gosh, like there is no one else..). Well, what's done is done, mission accomplished, got myself a few praises from the attendees (as well as from my boss, huhu)...

So, what's with today you ask? Was that the only thing I did? Let me brief you what happened today. I only found out that I've got to be the emcee this morning. I have to prepare the text, find out who's coming, who's giving the speeches, bla bla bla. To make things worst, my laptop suddenly got this blue screen of death (you know what I'm talking about, do you?), and my text files got corrupted. So I have to redo it again2, bla bla...Didn't even got the change to ask for my boss to review it; it's all on me..aiyoooo. Then we had this meeting in the morning. Then we have another session on our assessments (more on that on the later posts), what topics to cover, bla bla bla again..and that ends around 4-ish, and I still haven't produced the final emcee text...

Anyway, enough of me babbling about routine stuffs. Before I log off, here's a cartoon strip which evolves around..teamwork! I've decided to post it as it relates to the key to the successful completion of our job, which is repeatedly emphasized by the CEO..till the next post (with hope that I'll maintain my self-discipline), signing off; roger and out...