In a cookie

I am having difficulty with my cookie. I can't open gmail, or even my blogger. I can't leave messages on my friends' frenster pages and so I can't update as often as I'd like to. Crap.



Cookies are out to get me! Haha. Tu la, dok sebut cookie-cookie lg.



My chopper is on the 2nd. Oyea!

A taste of offshore

Clockwise: Madi, me and Adzlan.

Im offshore. Still. And its only my 9th day away from terra firma. This is how it looks like from here, sometimes. It takes some getting used to, but you could say that now I don't have a problem crossing the 'bridge' (don't really know the formal name for it) that connects the 2 platforms together. The two being the drilling platform where they have all the wells, and the processing platform.

Thats the bridge I was talking about. That is RCPP. Our Living Quarters are there too. I work from 630am to 1830 hrs.

The smoking area, the boys smoke all the time. Going to RDPA (the drilling platform), coming back to eat, before meetings... and the list goes on like crazy. Adzlan and I would be the only ones going 'lebams' waiting for the ordeal to finish.

Mijie and lan. One supervisor, one vacation trainee. Two good guys.

Madi, our pump operator. Always around to make my day with a stupid joke or two. I'll post more later.

Super Puma

30 mins by chopper. 48 lbs luggage. 140 lbs body weight (like are you serious?). A whole handful of people in coveralls. Yellow. in color.

I was excited as pea ready to pop out of a damned pod. But I had to contain it all inside. Who am I kidding? They all knew that it was my first time, especially when the safety instructor guy in the briefing room bluntly asked if there were any first timers going onboard that morning, 7am to be exact. And to make things worse, I was travelling alone. Crap. I remembered how scared silly I was when I had to travel alone from KL to Dhaka. And I was in 6th grade at that time. 10 years ago.

The helly was a loud and noisy one. It was pretty hot in it too. Luckily the vent was working and I had cool air jetting on my face throughout the trip. I didn't sit next to the windows, as they were safety exits and it was my first time travelling on one. So I couldn't really see where we were heading, but could witness the other passengers fall asleep one by one. I was drowsy as on drugs, but too excited+sad+worried at the same time that I couldn't fall asleep.

We finally landed on the all famous helideck.

And then all I could think of was how hard it would be for me to climb down the stairs with my big blue bag.

The Warning

Yusof Muda and Azizi, RCPP.

Sometimes I question the role of the alpha male in a chemical reaction. They are like the base, supposedly calm with control. Always with a vision. And the female is like an acid. Spunky. Emotional. Acidic. So sharp the acid taste that all it needs is a few drops of base and the equilizing aftermath that eludes total serenity is the main attraction of just being with someone.

I question your role all the time. Maybe that is why you will never be on the same pedestal as you have put me. There is this one word which sums it all. Tegar. What is the english version of it? Steadfast? Strong and unconditionally in control? Yeah, I forgot.

Not really talking about the same thing. We both got a pretty nasty warning the other day. Boy, was it rough. Ever since I joined the company, planning anything other than what time to sleep was by far the most hardest thing to do. I have no control over the things I do tomorrow, the day after or even if I get to apply for leave (like I am having trouble with now).

It was a rather bad hit for us. And now we are both parted by the South China Sea.

Padan muke.