Quick Life Update 11 - For months now

Salam wbt and hello all,

Oh my gosh..it has been a while since the last update. How long? Months ago.

I never forgot the blog, but it has been quite a busy times for me. Not all the time busy, but it is a mixture of the hectic and low time for me. Whenever I got time and free, I did not update the blog. Instead I did another things and keep delaying in updating my blog.

For example, got back the rig and at least one day available or free. I will go see movies, eat good food, sleep, window shopping and cooking. I will do things that I won't be able to do at the rig. In terms of updating the blog, I will be like, "No problem, I will update it at the rig". Then, actually at the rig I will be so occupied and exhausted. 

So, while I still in the writing mode, let me bring you up to speed what has been going on with me up to now;

Vacation in Malaysia

I had three week vacation, starting from end of January until mid of February. I just went home, relax. I did not travel to anywhere. Attended the weddings, catch up sessions with some old friends. On the second week, I removed the wisdom tooth. It was a surgery which lasted ~45 minutes. I did the check up two days after I arrived in Malaysia. Then, taking into account the food at weddings, good food at market, my mother's cook, me and my mother decided to come back one week after to do the surgery. Towards the day, I was scared. Should I or should not I remove it? My mother said, just remove it. And I finally removed it, after thousands time cancelling the surgery for the last 3-4 years. I did not feel any pain due to the local anesthetic (2 injections!!!). But! The sounds were scary, "Kruk, krak, kruk, krak" continuously. Three deep cuts were made to my gum as this wisdom tooth was so deep. Once removed, the doctor stitched the wound and I came back on the third week to remove the stitch. At least 3 days to stop the bleeding, the blood was really thick red and I did not even have the gut to check my mouth in the mirror. Once the bleeding stopped, and less painful, I started eating like normal.

Me at Genting Highland, before decreasing my wisdom level.

Other than that, helped my mother to organise the house. Since last year, I planned to renovate the front of my mother's house, which is always her wish. I allocate her some budget, and she organised it accordingly. She looked and interviewed several contractors before selecting any of them to do our house. We also bought some items like lightings, surveyed the mosaic, bathroom items. Funny thing was also, we roamed around our neighborhood to check out the designs for our house. We took pictures, and for me, people might think that we were planning for burglary. Towards the end of my vacation, we rearranged the cupboards to make some spaces for the renovation in the front area. The contractor also started send the items like sand, wood, cement, steel and placed them at our house.

With my sistah at Aisyah's wedding

All in all, I had a quiet vacation. Just relax at home, and it was alright.

That's my mother checking on the stuff

I came back last week

I traveled back to Doha last week, Monday, 12-Feb. Instead of asking my mother to send me to the airport, I took a taxi. I don’t want to trouble my mother to drive early in the morning. Besides, the house renovation started on this day.


Two days of quiet at Somerset, and then I showed up at the base. Managed to fast several days to cover the day I missed in Ramadhan last year. Then, I will need to cover another 10 days for the one I missed last year although I already paid the kifarah. I am using this not busy time to replace them, InsyaAllah. I went to rig GDI-1, did the rig up and came back to Doha. Only one MWD left there, Ahmed Al-Risi. This will be Remote Operation (RO) job, so no need to MWD at the wellsite.


Since I came back, I did nothing. Just roaming around and started studying for ADN-ECO school. Yes, finally I will go to this nuclear school in April. Therefore, need to learn and understand the modules.


Now, I am just staying at the base. A lot of engineers came in, loan as well as transferred. Also Malaysian engineers came in. The activities supposed to start being crazy, for some reasons, many rigs got delayed. When things are not busy, actually I start thinking maybe they will start laying off people. Hehehe…and I had some issues with the top guys, and I probably one of the candidate to be removed. My brain can be so negative sometimes. :)

 

Somerset

Did I tell you I moved to a new hotel, Somerset. Basically, all the International Mobile employees are staying there now. Somerset, it is a service apartment. One apartment, it has three huge bedrooms. I was the third person to come to Apartment 601. Then, after one week, I requested to move another apartment. There is one lady that was bitching around the smell of cooking. I fried eggs and she started to bitching the smell. Also, scolded me for using her cooking utensils. The thing is, she put everything together with the hotel's stuff. She should have fuckin tape her things with her name etc. I don’t like her from the start, although I don’t talk much with her. Surprisingly, she smoke in the apartment and never washed her dishes. I cannot order food every single day you know and I need to live with freedom. I know from the start, whether I can tag along well with somebody or no. It is a gut feeling. Then, fuck it. I reported to the HR and finally moved to another apartment. I am happy.


There are a lot to update. I will see you in the next entry hopefully soon.

 

Take care and Salam w.b.t

 

P/S - It is getting warmer here in Qatar. Summer is approaching. FYI, this is backdated post :)