Huge room in HCMC.

My last day in this bloody long project and the client checked me into one of the suites in HCMC. The hotel is not that great though but the fact that its one of the biggest room in the hotel. I am pretty honoured. Check out the video that i took.



Almost midnight singapore time and 2300hrs in HCMC. Kinda bored, think i will go get some booze before i turn-in ba. Worried i will land myself in one of those girly bars... lol

Wild day on shore! Last last last part!

Guess they have selective hearig when one had too many beers.

Saved the arguement, I was unhappily eating my breakfast as the other two had theirs and end up having omelette n French bread for brrakfast. Unsatisfying meal loh...

Luckily or this trip I managed to gets some DVDs and a headphone to make Internet calls. Which pretty good for ts price tag - 130,000 VDN = S$14. Cheap. The DVDs were like USD$¹a disc, so we didn't bother to think too much to the selecitions.

Ok finally this ultra long story is done! All thanks to this iPod. N shozu. Now that I can to back to sleep me. Night!

Wild day in shore! Last last part.

So we were suppose to meet at 9.30, before taking the 10am boat back. By 8, I was trying to pull myself up coz I worried I will oversleep. At exactly 9.15 I walk over to ring kevin up. No response... Either he is still sleeping, showering or have already check out. So I went down to check with the recept. turn out he haven check out. I hurried up again as I was worried that he is still sleeping. Rang he doorbell quite a lot of time before he opened the door. Apparantly he was in the phone that's y he didn't answer. LOL.

No one was around, so we check out before going to the other hotel to find the other. Realized the other two is not in their room, but their passwords are still with athe recept. We were thinking, they cant be so drunk last night an totally forgot bout the returning boat?

Took them till 1030 to appear. War happen was they actually got up early n went out for breakfast! When we ask y they didn't stick to the plan of 9.30 they say they didn't hear us say that...

Wild day on shore! Last part.

We drank till 3am n the bar is closing. By then, kevin is already holding hands with a girl n talking about going to the beach. For me, I already know my limit n wanted to go back to hotel le.

In the end, we sorted the scottish guy to one hotel, with his "girlfriend" LOL. While kevin n I checked into the other "clean" hotel. Suite room each!

Apparantly, in Vietnam, there are some hotel which strictly restrict these kinda girls to the hotel. (like the one kevin got for me.) U can easily book one in the other hotel nearby for those "business", but u need to book two rooms. One for the girl, one for the guy. Then whether u wanna do ur "business" in which room it's up to u. LOL.

End up I hardly enjoyed the room cuz I was rather drunk liao. But it's huge! With two toilet n a living room! Maybe I post some pics later.

Oh crap, one last bit before I end...

Wild day on shore! Part 3

We end up at red parrot. But the moment we walked in, a number of girls stormed in front of us, like gold had jus arrived. Oh, must be that scottish friend with us that gave them the impression.

But we only sit down for less then 15 min, got a drink n left. Coz we felt "pressurized" as there were too many of them n the attitude is not right.

So next one we went to Black Cat. This time, kevin knew a few girls there n we started to sit n drink. The Scottish n another were goners, as the sat at the sofa, sleeping. This time we even fit a bottle if tequila! Crap... This is crazy.

By then, u was already quite tipsy liao. So n drink n stop n drink n stop. The girls started to char around, asking me to drink. But I was smart! I fooled around with the drinks n water, end up the girls drink more then me. Wahahaha!

Last part, to be continued...

Wild day on shore! Part 2

Of course, all these drinks came with those bar girls around loh. Two of the guys went straight to the ladies went we entered the bars and they eventually got themselves one each. Definately not for me man! I nvr like this kinda girls loh. Luckily the client was quite a decent chap, so I won't feel awkard around.

But I can see that there are a few who are not there for that kinda "business" loh. In the end I was having a few chats with them. Actually one of them is quite sweet! Kevin likes her though. LOL.

After around 8pm, it was left with kevin n I. The rest have gone to do their "business". They call it "Bombom" LOL. I dun need to explain further la. :p

Dinner was nice. We had a firewood pizza and lamp chop/steak for us. Love the pizza as the crust is thin n ingredients is quality stuff. Finally, fine food after 4weeks!

After that we returned to the bar n saw more people around. Sat down, had another few drinks. N kevin suggested bar hopping.

To be continued...

Wild day on shore! Part 1

Had one of my wildest day on shore last night when the while lot of us had a chance to get on shore for a night.

We are suppose to return late night yesterday but the captain gave us the green light to stay over. And that was the start of a wild wild night...

We reached shore at 1pm and our "tour guide", kevin brought us straight to the VFB bar. That's with coherence with the rest of the guys loh. N all I can do is tag along, I need a food cold beer man...

From ¹to 8, we were drinking n drinking. I had 12bottles of heinken already as every one was busy buying each other beers. We play pool, losers have to "ring the bell" which means buying everyone a drink! Even the owner of the bar bought us a round! That was pretty nice of him. We were all having fun. After a few games, I couldn't help but lost twice and that resulted in a damage of almost USD$100!!!

Drinks were cheap, like USD$5 a cup, but to buy almost 15 pax twice, I realized it's enough for me from the day. LOL.

Post that didnt go thru from shozu

*Project Manager!?! Me?!?*

Well, I was writing about this topic on my bed when I recieve this news the previous week. And untill now i dun have a chance to resume the duties...

That night, I recieved a email from my boss that he have spilted the whole team of naval architects into two teams and i happen to be a project manager managing one of the teams!?!

Basically, i need to manage the projects assigned to my team. And allocate projoct handlers and surveyors for the jobs. At the same time i need to manage the progress of all these projects and be kept in the loop at all times. Then i will report the jobs to my boss. Who was initially in this position but he handles ALL the projects in the company alone. So as the number of projects grows, he gets stressed and stretched, but he really really manages it very well. But in this new setup. He gets relieved from all those stress and yet still be able to manage the projects and he would be able to set his sights further to reduce conflicts and problems.

The thing is, i am hardly in the office at all!?! 3 weeks after I joined the company, I was sent to the first part of my company sponsored "curise to nowhere" for three weeks! And when i return to office, i got myself another weekend "holiday to nowhere" in Lumut, one of the "tiny" town in Perak, Malaysia. Then after that i got myself another week in the office and "Boom", i am back in the "cruise to nowhere" again....

Actually I am very honoured and happy but at the same time, I am worried that i wouldn't live up the to expectations of my boss. Hope that i dun dissappoint him, or rather. I MUST NOT do that!

Wah... So fast stress liao...

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Well bascially that wat i wrote that night.

Now I am brainstorming the things that can be improved in the office whenever I have some free time (which means after i got bored in my games. lol) I know that i have to get rid of my laziness before i can succeed in my career. And i need to improve my "Ang Mo" sia, really "terok" leh. Communicating with the "Ang Mo" on board raises lots of "huh? yes? i beg your pardon? i am sorry..." So full of shit... Then again i dun think writing such shit on this blog will help anyway. Maybe Wii got some games to improve english. lol

Talking about Wii. I have been sourcing some forums about modding Wii. Seems like is quite a hazzle to use the machines ones it gets modded. U got to be really cautious not to allow un-necessary updates to the system, if not u will get your machine "brick". Basically means that your Wii will en up like a brick, useless...

Anyway, after convincing my best friend to get a Wii for his birthday, and more friends of mine are getting that too, i guessed that i have to get one too! That is after my room/house is renovated. I guess that will means a christmas present for myself. Or anyone out there wanna get me a Wii for christmas?!? :P

Cheers all,
Kenny

Crap...

Apparently it works now, and u should see a few photos being posted in at this moment. But I hbe also written some stuffs but these cannot be resent again... Sianz. Cannot cut n paste some more. WTF...

Anyone care for a suntan?

I can nvr believe this is happening. But seeing is believing...

Everybody is actually busy or here with a purpose and I really dun understand why these people are here.

They are a group of japanese divers, who are responsible at the last phase of our project, which is the riser tie-in. But a number of them are here the moment the barge moveout from sg. I understand they need to maintain the equipments on board, but so many? Further more, 2 weeks ago, another lot of 20+ came in. I understand about a dozen of them will be in the sat chamber coz the dive is more then 50 meters. But the rest? Wat I see most of the time they are smoking around the barge and near the gym n now this. Lol They sure seems very "eng" around log...

MWA installation

Shown here is when we successfully lifted this 277.5T MWA + GB system off the material barge and off to the sea bed.

Took the contractor 12hrs to take out the sea fastenings and lift it just above the water. And another 4hrs to drop it into the sea bed. After this, they are supposed to have the ROV fixed with a cutter to cut the wire followed by fixing a pump to provde the suction to further sink in the GB under the sea bed. And this took another 20hrs as they have problems with the ROV and the setup of the pump has some hiccup. Can you imagine the contractors initially estimate 12hrs for re installation! We took 36hrs to complete...

Sianz...

Can't seems to get my previous fib posts to be posted. Irritating.

ROV

This is our ROV on board. It's from Sonsub Saipem. Initially I tot ROV would be a small machine nvr expect it to be this huge!