It is now 12.32am, UK time.....suddenly i got an impulse to write something about my working time at the 1st half of 2008....it must have reason that i recall that out of sudden.....it is because i miss it....
I miss the working period in PUBM, i enjoy this kind of life, i love dealing with different things and people (i dont like to deal with assignments and examsss!!!).
It is irrefutable that i will feel 'sien' and boring when work, but overall, i still prefer to work....
Wake up at around 7.15-7.30am, bring my belongings and my breakfast (bakery) with me then drive the 10yrs old ah pek car to work....i'm having my breakfast while driving..XD....every morning do the same things....my breakfast always in the car......
Traffic jam...i hate the traffic jam, i hate the traffic light in Kuching, have to wait for 10-15 mins for the green light if i miss the turn...after the traffic light, come to the fly-over, the flow of traffic starts to slow down again.............it takes me 15-20 mins to reach my workplace.
My working hour is 8.30am-5.30pm, 1 hr break in the middle......sometimes i will be boring like hell in office if there are no tasks appointed for me...besides the jobs of QS, i will also in charge of photostating and binding job (i learned these 2 skills from PUBM-one of the achievements) .
i had been appointed to go for site visit/meeting outstation at the 2nd or 3rd week i started to work. i was so shocked that i would be asked to go for site visit, somemore need to travel. i had mixed feelings of excite, worry that time. The place i travelled is Nanga bloh, i have no idea where is this place until i went for meeting with my collegue...OMG!! it is a very very very remote area in Sarawak, it is a wildlife sanctuary...During the meeting, i was told to bring along raincoat, toilet paper, torch light.....somemore need to take up to 5 hrs longboat ride to reach the ranger station, from river to stream, from deep to shallow, from yellowish water to crystal clear water, from gentle water to rapid stream (can imagine how remote it is??)......I went to Nanga bloh 2 times in 6 months time, the 2nd time is few week before i leave (u know why i was asked to go?? because nobody wants to go. == ..but anyway, i'd gain some experience from the trip)....
If i not mistaken, there are 7 site visits/site meetings i went, 2 are local site, others are outstation. The outstation site are travelled by air, as well as by road and water. and there are always have coincidence, all the outstation sites i went are based in central sarawak, which means i will stop by Sibu (i can go back oftenly!!)
i had went to sampadi (in Kuching), Tanjung Manis, Nanga Dap, all are school projects.
During these 6 months, besides the working experience and some valuable travelling experience i gained, i gt 5 best frenz too. 2 of them are trainees from TARC, 1 from UTAR and the remaining 2 are staffs of PUBM....
Madam Tan, she's a experienced staff, senior QS, i start to get to know her, start to talk with her when she asked me to represent her to go to the site. That architect seems like like to persecute me with lots of questions..
What's the gross floor area for this school?
What is the estimate?
If u duno, u dun suppose to come, what if the client ask u abt that...
when that architect shot the questions to me, i tell him i need to ask the QS in charged, so whenever he asked my anything in the car during the journey to the site, i will sms to my collegue in order to get the answer
I was not being informed in details before i represent the QS to go to the site everytime, i have to act on the spot if the questions suddenly popped up in front of me. If u meet the people with good 'matter', they wont critisize you, they'll understand ur situation and they wont say much about that. Both characteristics of the people i'd met.
Everytime i treat the site visit as i go travelling. Although i'd be nervous for site meeting, but still i prefer site visit/meeting.
SK Nanga Dap (such a huge school in rural area ==)
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Briefing before going to site
SK Sampadi (in the village)
Tender visit-Contractors visit the site before tendering
Briefing by architect
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Song wharf
Busiest time-Gawai around the corner
Ranger station
left the sanctuary
on the way........
early in the morning
