End of year entry

Salam w.b.t and hi all.

First all, I look forward to go home, Malaysia. My flight will be on Monday, Aberdeen - London - Malaysia.

Hopefully will be arrived home safe and sound, and not miss my connecting flight.  

I have several projects line up when I am home.

One of the project is to fix the house. After all the years, my mother's house need a maintenance since many things damage. Toilet door fell off, roof leaks here and there, cracks in our bedroom, and many more.

I just remained silent and did not say a word to my mother about fixing things because I did not have enough budget.

Alhamdulillah, now I can confidently say to my mother, "Mak, go find suitable and reliable builder to fix our house. This is the budget I have, and Mak can use it to fix the house".

I told her about my intention last week. So, right now I am sure she is pretty occupied with surveying and finding what need to be done to fix our house. She is a pro about this, as long as we have the resources.

So, when I come home next week, I will help about cleaning, moving furniture, etc.

I told her, for now, just to fix the main damages first because that is the budget I have for now. She has a dream to renovate and enlarge the front of the house, make a beautiful garage, roof, and gate. I will try to fulfill her dream next year or earlier, InsyaAllah.

Also, I want to go back to our hometown to visit Atok. He must be very surprised since I don't tell him about I am going home.

I am ready to leave Aberdeen. I already packed my bags, let go many groceries, and other items. Tomorrow will be the final cleaning, basically just to mop the house, dispose the rubbish, and do the laundry. I already vacuumed and cleaned it yesterday, so not much to do.

I have been sleeping in the sleeping bag since last week. See...how ready I am to go home for holiday. Hahaha..

Two days ago, I thought I want to sweep the leaves at the backyard, but it was just to chill outside. I reckon around 3-5 degree C and I cannot work in this cold. So, I think forget it. I might get frostbite if I stand outside a minute longer with only wearing shirt + sweater + sweatpants.

Do you expect me to wear winter jacket, socks, scarf, gloves, and thermal shirts just to sweep the backyard? Nah, thanks. 

Tonight, will go out with friends, have dinner, and celebrate Hogmanay. Hogmanay is the Scottish version of New Year.

I don't know what to expect in 2017 actually since all my resolutions are still in draft stage. Hahaha...shoot.

Okay, I think that's all I have on my mind for now.

Take care and see you guys next year.

Salam w.b.t.

P/S - I gotta the feeling...hooo...that tonight is gonna be a good night

Before I leave

Salam w.b.t and hi all.
Time flies really fast. We are three/four days away from 2017. Well, I don’t really look forward to the New Year actually because, I don’t.
It is not really a big deal, well, it is a big deal. It is just this is where everybody will be away and have a lot of holiday. I really need to be really patient for them to reply my emails!
Anyway, I am still in Aberdeen as a vacation, trying to use up my annual leave. I have a lot of things to do during my vacation before leaving Aberdeen.
So far;

• Already buy the one-way flight ticket to Malaysia. So sad and nervous
• Watched Fantastic Beast at the cinema. I am a bit disappointed with this movie, I don’t really understand what is it about apart from magic wound whoosh here and there. Whoosh £10.60 for the ticket

Eddie is so weird and awkward in the movie, although it is part of the character. I don't like it

• Packing my stuff for shipping. See the state of my house! Like a shipwreck

• Donated my pre-loved items to the charity shops, mostly the winter clothes since I will not require it in Qatar
• Sold my car
• Sold many of my items as I am trying to lessen weight for luggage
• Get my SLB Laptop fixed as I screwed up with the software
• Met the dentist, four appointments back to back
• My beloved wisdom tooth on the left cheek started to grow. I was in pain for three to four days but now, it is no longer sore. Yay!
• I have been going to the city for 4-5 consecutive days before Christmas, just to see/survey the price for my favourite things. Today, I don’t see much difference although it is Boxing Day. So, I just buy it instead of waiting for another "cheaper" version. I bought three shirts
• Snow fall heavily today. Nice opportunity to see it before I leave Aberdeen

Still considering whether I need to buy the tablet-laptop convertible or not. I was at the Curry's PC World for nearly two hours today, but I did not buy it. The price is £149.99 + £45.00 for Window installation. I don’t know if it is a need or a want. Besides, I surveyed the price sold in Malaysia is way much pricey.


Buy it or no? I don't know.

Not much I have been accomplished for the past two weeks. Sometimes, I felt lost as in, "What I want to do today since I have a lot of free times". So, I decided to write to-do-list every day. At the end of the day, I will cross out what I have done and see what else I can do. It is boring when you are alone and don’t have any plan.



So lame and unorganized life

That is why I write this entry so that I can cross out the to-do-list for today. Haha…Ok, I will write properly next time.


Take care guys.


P/S - Anyone is going for vacation/backpacking/volunteering event next month? Any vacant spot? I would love to join.

 

Quick Life Update 9

Salam w.b.t and hello everyone,

How is everyone doing? It is been a while since the last entry. I was pretty occupied and a lot of changes happened since the last two months. So far, I am doing great actually. I will give a quick updates on what's going on with my life so far

D&M

Finally, the decision was made. I will be in Drilling & Measurement from now on, and I will be relocated to Doha, Qatar. Yippe.. This final decision was told to me approximately end of October and in the meantime, they already signed me up for the school in Abu Dhabi. It was unbelievably quick because I was not prepare at all.

Abu Dhabi

Regardless, on November 5, I flew to Abu Dhabi to attend the school. The school will be 5 weeks. 3 weeks for Measurement Zero and another two weeks for Measurement TS.

School

Tomorrow will be the last day of the Measurement TS course and what is left to do is the presentation. Hopefully I will pass with flying colours as the course is really tough. Sleep deprived, continuous assessments/tests/exams/practical are really pushing me to work hard. Alhamdullillah, the instructor and classmates are really helpful and I have a lot of supports from many MWD/LWD across the globe.

Some others classmates will stay for another one month and a week to attend another two courses. I will do these courses probably next year since I don’t have background on these two courses. From my understanding, if you don’t have a good preparation and experience for these two courses, you will be struggling. That’s why I will attend it after sufficient preparation and good amount of field experiences.

Meeting people

Finally I met other trainees which we only communicate online. Also, I met other Malaysians who are attending the school. Surprisingly, the readers of my blog, I met them.. From wireline as well as D&M A bit embarrassing, but I cannot hide myself. Hahahahahaha…

Also, make a lot of new friends. In the class, I sat next to a guy name Stevan, from Perth. It was nice because I can reminisce my memory in Perth. Miss the place much. 

D&M crews for first rig practical, happy face before we started the job. At the end of the practical, we were so flat out.

Flying back to Aberdeen

From Abu Dhabi, I will be flying back to Aberdeen this Saturday. It feels a bit weird though, when most of the trainees are begging for holiday to go home. And for myself, I will take a week off in Aberdeen next week while sorting the administration issues. Since I will be moving to Qatar, I need to take care of my work visa, apartment, car, and various other matters. So, I will use my time off to sort these out. I pray that my transition will occur smoothly.

Dentist

Oh…. I need to see dentist..

Holiday

I think I will take couple weeks off once I sort all things in Aberdeen and when my Qatar work visa is ready. I cannot just sitting at home doing nothing.

I think that’s enough for now. I will keep you updated guys. Oh man…time flies really fast…Believe it or not, yesterday (7 December) marks one year of me with Schlumberger. A lot of ups and downs, but I enjoy and appreciate it.

That’s me, I will write again. Take care and see you guys in the next entry.

Salam w.b.t and chow!

P/S - Need to make new year resolutions for next year. Actually, I don’t have one this year, so unorganized :D