Mission on F6

0555hr
Woke up. Twisted and turn.

0600hr
Alarm went off. Snugged in just a little bit.

0615 - 0620hr
Finally dragged myself out of bed. Stretched and cleaned up.

0640hr
Piag all prepared (Wow in only 20 mins!). Made hot drink.

0705hr
Left home for airport.

0715hr
Checked in. Met Kavukz there together with a few others. I think altogether there were 10-12 of us. Went into the departure hall into another room for safety briefing. Girl name Wee (Wii?) played a video and we all found out we're gonna be on the Sikorsky S-92 (pronounced see-kor-skee) chopper. The video mentioned the escape routes in there and I remembered chuckling somewhere in between that made Kavukz hit my hand for some reason. She asked if I was nervous, and I pretty much shocked her when I said no. I mean...really, I wasn't nervous. I'm a happy pig! Didn't it show? Maybe because I looked sleepy. Piagster's brain only functions after 9am. Before that is just...mmmpphh...

0800hr
Took the airport bus to the Layang Layang helibase.

0815hr
Lift off.


You know, I never got the chance to really look at the sea until I'm near enough to see just how DEEP BLUE it was. Arrived F6 after an hour, we had another short briefing by the medic. Filled in some forms, then we had breakfast. I had a really good roti canai with dal curry that it was very convincing about staying the night given some circumstances.

I experienced my first Toolbox meeting (I've always envisioned a meeting inside a box). Nothing serious to talk about except that it's just a "courtesy meeting" before any job starts. So we had Yusri to guide us girls while the rest of the engineers get guided by other men. A Permit To Work was raised so I could take pictures around. Camera flashes are prohibited in work areas. They placed a paper tape on my flashbulb just in case. It was funny. So on we toured...

F6 Production

I really see something related between the two...

And we saw more...

F6P-A, Generator control room, Exhaust fan

There were so many things to know. Yusry explained alot about separating wet gas with glycol and showing which tube is flowing what. Because we were on ear mufflers, Kavukz and I could hardly hear him at times that we just nod our heads anyways. I'm still learning about the structures and processes. I'm a very curious pig and I love asking questions....

Because I'm just that "Empty Tin"...

That's actually a wellhead. Also known as Christmas Tree. I'm not kidding, it's Christmas everyday there. Oh and we also had time to camwhore abit...

Could you even tell if we're smiling?

After that, we had the chance to jump on the standby barge which was called Ajang Hikmah, a barge that fits the capacity of 200 men. That's alot of bachelors we "enlightened". Well, that's what the trainee CSR said. To be more precise, he actually said "Having you both on board is like sunlight to the men". Then we went up to the top floor, called the bridge (I think) and hung around there.

Just so you know, it's not because we're bored or anything. We're just....

We had our lunch after the whole sight-seeing and gosh I was sweating like hell. One of the managers, Janin, took the chance to have a conversation with me.

Janin : Are you married?
Karen : No.
Janin : Is your sister married?
Karen : Nup.
Janin : Why? You people don't like men?
Karen : Too many men.

Janin brought the topic up in front of Kavukz, still having the impression that Kavukz and I don't like men. I must say, Kavukz played a good role in convincing that.

Scandalous...and I hate my hair.

We attended a close-out meeting after lunch, then our chopper came and picked us up at 2:25pm. It was a different chopper now, Sikorsky S-72.

Headin' home...

Arriving home, I was so pooped that I took a nice long shower and masked myself. And I missed my bed.

Aahh, what a day!