SGP - Viet (Ho Chi Minh) - Viet (Vung Tau) - SMIT BORNEO

This is the barge i am gonna stay for the nest few days, "SMIT BORNEO". Skipped lunch to survey the barge and end up by 5.30pm, the time it is due to sail, the work is not yet completed. End up i have to acc the barge out to the sea to inspect the work before approving the sail away of the barge.

Here are some photos of the barge.

There is cats on board the barge. lol guessed they are in for a trip to nowhere.

Took them one whole night to get the job done. In between, they still wanna smoke their way thru by fixing up the lashings with unapproved methods. I was quick to catch them doing it and reported back to the office and double checking if the method was allowed. So i walked over to th person incharge and wisper to the guy in charge, "I hope tat is not the way u are going to lash the equipment coz it not approved by our standards." I was expecting him to give me some explanations. but he jus shout across the worker to tell them to stop working, " Hey, stop working! Rejected by insurance party!" U should be there to see the faces of the workers then! All turning around and look at me, giving me the "wat the hell" look. i was pretty worried coz in the middle of the sea at late night, the wole lot of them can do anything!!! Eventually i state my stand in the lashing procedures and the foreman was quiet to my explanations. I guessed they know that it is not really a good idea but they wanna smoke me. They were short of the clips required in our standards, so in the end, they got supply from shore, which is another 2hrs wait... End up i left the barge at around 11pm... The barge sailed of the next day morning and due to arrive in another 5day in Vietnam.

So three days later, i am on the plane to Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh) to join the barge the next day.

The interior of the airport looks so much better then the Bangkok one.

Sights outside from my transport.

Took a afternoon flight to Vietnam and was picked up by my client before taking a 1.5hr boat ride to Vung Tau. Staying in Palace hotel, which sounds pretty nice, but sadly its jus some simple 4-star hotel. But i guess it pretty good for a hotel in such a country ba.

Some looks of the hotel. Notice the hotel pic is a photo as i haben step out of the hotel since i got here. Hopefully the heli trip tml is delayed and i got to explore this town tml.

As for now, gonna sleep soon. :)