Malaysia’s national upstream company Petronas Carigali is this week carrying out a pre-installation survey before the topsides installation at its Anjung gas field development off Sarawak, East Malaysia.
Brooke Dockyard & Engineering Works fabricated both the Anjung jacket and topsides, while Upstream reported on 24 May 2018 that another local contractor, TL…
I'd like to start this entry off by saying FALSE ALARM. Koreans do NOT flush their food. I was a victim of a terrible misinformation campaign conducted by my mother's friends. Never again.
Today was Korean Veterans Day, and the foreigners were all supposed to meet up at the bus terminal at 10:30 in the AM to go to Pyeongtaek Lake for a lovely picnic with English speakers. I get up nice and early, go to the grocery store to purchase picnic supplies, and then head on over to the bus terminal.
After briefly getting locked in a bathroom stall OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO DIE IN HERE I patiently waited for the other foreigners to show up. 10:30 came and went, and I thought, "Those bastards! They led me here! They really MUST have been a nest of doppelgangers!"
Roughly 10 minutes later a friendly British man comes in, makes eye contact with me, saunters over in a way that only a Brit can do, introduces himself, and then says, "This seems to be the situation, Morgan. The people from Anjung were supposed to meet the people from Pyeongtaek at Pyeongtaek Lake today. However, the people from Pyeongtaek have changed their mind and have decided to go to [Sobyuk?] a little later, I don't know where that is. The Anjung folk don't either, so they've decided to go to Pyeongtaek Lake anyway, but they're running a little late so they won't leave until after awhile, too. I'll go to [Sonjuk?] because my girlfriend is there and I'm kind of obligated to go with her, roight? The way I see it, you have two options: Wait until later and go to [Sobeek?] with me, or wait until later and go to Pyeongtaek Lake with the other Anjung folk. So what'll it be?"
I told him I was basically making the choice between going to a place I'd never been with complete strangers, or going to a place I'd never been with a group of people I barely know.
He smiled, laughed, and said "Welcome to Anjung, mate!" That surprised me. I hadn't realized that we had mated. I'd certainly never been anyone's mate before, and I didn't really know what it entailed, but I knew that being someone's mate meant that you accompanied them to places sometimes. This knowledge in hand, I joined him and went to [Soruk?]. I still have no idea how the hell you're supposed to pronounce that damn word.
At [Sonkuk?], I met a metric ass ton of people from all over the place. We basically snacked, played frisbee, kicked a hackysack, and shot the breeze until the sun started going down.
While we played frisbee, we had a ton of people stop and stare. I was like "haven't these people ever seen a frisbee before?"
A colleague said "These people have never seen a group of foreigners before."
My mind was like WHOA.
I had a blast. Met cool people, had fun, ate. I'm much more tired, though, than if I had actually gone to work today. I need some shut-eye.
