Monday, September 08, 2008
7.30am - Reached the office just on time.
7.45am - Had Khai Hung on my left and Wei Jun on my right playing DOTA while I slept in the middle for about 2 hours before I woke up to be entertained by Khai Hung's anime. Seriously, it is very entertaining, especially when certain body parts of females are dramatically enlarged.
11.00am - Went for lunch and I met Gopi while going out of the office.
Gopi: "Why never follow me in the morning?"
Malcolm: "Er... erm... ah I was very tired so I slept there..."
(what a perfect excuse for your superior eh?)
Gopi: "... oh... ok then later after your lunch come fine me..."
Then he stares at me, and smiles smugly. I knew he was up to something.
01.30pm - Gopi comes and find me, and as usual, I was sleeping.
"Want to come along?"
"Alright!"
He was already dressed in his harness, mask, gloves, safety glasses and
had two torch lights. I simply took everything except the harness which he
said wasn't necessary.
02.00pm - He brought me back to Angola, the massive oil tanker which was 5 storey high. Then he said, "I'll bring you inside the tank today, its very dark, take this torch light and... be careful." We put on our masks, and he went into the manhole first, then it was my turn. I looked into that huge manhole, there was a ladder leading down to a little platform below and beyond that, total darkness. As I crept down the rusty ladder, the stench of crude oil began to fill my nostrils but it was bearable. After landing on the little platform, I couldn't see anything but the distance of my shoes. At that point, I was certainly feeling lost and very lonely till seconds later, Gopi shone his torch at me before I found the next ladder down and realized that I was just another step to falling 5 storeys down into absolute darkness. With no harness, I didn't dare lift my hands off the rails to turn my torch on, one step at a time, I made my way down the gruelling steps.
03.00pm - Gopi brought along his workers to survey the tank on the construction of scaffolds. It has certainly passed half an hour and I wasn't feeling very good in that oil stenched tank filled with dust and probably harmful gases. The place was huge but extremely hot, I was perspiring like I had just gone for a sauna.
03.30pm - Finally Gopi brought me out and the way up wasn't any easier either. The first few ladders were chicken feet but after awhile my breathing somehow got tough, it was the same feeling when I was up at Mount Kinabalu, right at the peak. After I climbed out, I was feeling so very gay, so very high and so very dizzy. I must say, I was overjoyed to even see the sun. The sensation was very similar to a hang over except it didn't last as long. Oh, I witnessed a white man (not sure of his country of origin) saying this to a malay guy, "Today Fuck Fuck day mhm? Fuck Fuck day..."
Seriously... no kidding... I didn't know if I should laugh or cry...
03.50pm - Got back to office to change and went to the bus stop to wait for the girls.
05.15pm - 3 girls and 3 guys working at the shipyard reach the sports complex to play badminton. What does this say about the working life there?
Soon after an hour of playing, it became 4 girls and 4 guys which was quite very fun. The 8 of us played in one court, really made us a big attraction as no one in that place did that.
08.15pm - Changed and head down to Mcdonald's for dinner before heading home.
artificious ' 10:49 pm
