Working Experience

Internship programme really made me realize how wonderful student life is if compared to working life.These are several things that working people always had

1. 8-5 working hours: Working 8 hours per day is really tiring. I need to wake up early in the morning to bath, breakfast and avoid traffic jam.Once I sat down own my desk, I always said to myself 'I have 8 hours to spend before I can go back home'. Time seems so slow in the office but it get really fast after office hour.
2. Traffic Jam: Even if I depart early from home, there is always traffic jam. Lucky for me, in Miri the traffic jam ain't that bad compared to KL. Even stuck for few minutes had already made me depressed; How could I work in KL.Normally, I would avoid driving and let my friend drive and he would also do the same.
3. Weekend: Friday is the best day of working days because you know that you can have enough rest on the next day. Having Friday prayer give additional one hour for lunch break which means I only need to work for 7hours. Once the office hour ends, I felt really good. Having two days of break is not enough.
4. Exercise: It is really difficult to maintain exercise routine which I normally do in college. After 8 hours of working,feeling tired; I would rather sit at home and relax, enjoying every moment. Now, I manage to manage my time and spend one hour in the gym in the evening.

There are so many things that can be listed but I feel really lazy to think and type in here. I want to enjoy this weekend.LOL!

p/s: I haven't experience loads of work since there is really no work given to me.Envy other intern who have works because it made me suffer to do nothing for 8 hours for 5 days in week.And this is my forth month and left with about 3months more.

1st day kerja

Everything has its first time.And biasanya first time ni la kita excited sangat2 because of something new kan.And kat miri ni, kitorang hanya ada 1 kereta untuk memuatkan 7orang penumpang untuk ke 2 tempat berlainan.So, apa kitorang buat adalah kuar awal dari rumah ke tempat kerja. Senior ada cakap jugak yang Miri ni boleh tahan jugak jammed die kalau pagi2 tu.So kitorang memang decide kuar awal pagi la.

1st day
Bangun seawal 430 pagi(bersamaan 530 di KL yee masa die).Bilik air ada 2,nak mandi 7orang.So agak lama la di situ nak siap2 sume.530 pagi sume da siap2 and kitorang buat 1st trip.Pegi 15min,balik 15min.1st trip tu untuk hantar 2 budak Shell, so the remaining in 2nd trip 5 orang la.So budak2 Petronas sampai ofis pukul 620(masuk keje pkul 730,bersamaan 830 kt KL la yee).So apa kitorang buat adalah jalan2 la dulu kat ofis tu,biasakan diri.Memang tak ramai orang la time tu.Yang ada pon polis bantuan yang dok dekat tempat receptionist.Then, kitorang decide pegi brekfes dulu.

Tepat pukul 730 kitorang da terpacak depat meja cik Zairunnisa(person in charge of new interns la).So that morning trus ada briefing about the company,amik details interns,and ada cite pasal cara pemakaian la.Around 10 macam tu setiap sorang dah kene assign pegi department masing2.Mostly setiap sorang department lain2.So time tu memang sorang2 la kat situ.

So the first person i was introduced to in the BPD-N(Production Department-Northern Cluster)  was Kak Rathnawaty who is the secretary of the department.Then, i was introduced to other trainees from other schools. May from Curtin Uni and Cathy from Poli-Kuching.Later that day, I met with my Supervisor(SV),Mr, Ravi Kanth who is the Senior Field Engineers.Basically,senior field engineers has  a lot of experiences about the field and he is an expert from India.I am lucky to have him as my SV, but he is always busy with works.No guidance from him.He just said,do your plan about what you want to achieve in here.How am I suppose to do if I don't know anything.So tu jelaa about the department.So to kill time sampai pukul 430(waktu abis keje) ade la kerja2 sampingan yang diberi iaitu menghias Board sempena pertandingan menghias board antara department.Haha.Dah la Art Skill memang xberbakat disuruhnya wat mende tu.Memang buat jela walaupon takda skill.

So that's basically about the first day.The routine daily work at the moment is to update Visual Management Board early in the morning before Video Conference started.Yang lain tu memang takda keje and baca Operation Manual(OPM),Process and Instrument Diagram(P&ID),Process Flow dan sebagainya. And now, tengah buat research on case study throughout the internship.Lucky for us in Sarawak, we have a field trip to onshore facilities(offshore xboleh sebab insurance mahal and kene attend intensive training).Next week boleh tengok how well intervention been done.Pastu yang best dekat sini boleh pergi Crude Oil Terminal(Yang bulat2 besar tu).

Owh about my case study,i'm looking forward to do about Electrical Submersible Pump(ESP).I'm shocked to know that Sarawak has the first ESP in Malaysia and the only field to have it.So, it might be an advantage to me :)

First day in MIRI

Flight MH2592 to MIRI at 830 a.m made me woke up early in the morning;i need to be at KLIA around 730 a.m to check-in. So the journey began after subuh prayer(thanks Iman for sending me there) and i met my other fellow friends; Daus and Ben. The flight took around 2 hours and 15minutes which we arrived at MIRI airport at 1045. Our seniors (Zaki and Zakuan) fetched us at the airport and we went tour around SKO office and arrived at our house. It is quite spacious to feed 7 of us with 3bedrooms,2toilets,fridge,stove,dining table,set of sofas and big compound. The drawback is,we are provided with only one standing fan. There is no ceiling fan at all.

After settled down our stuffs, we went to nearby super/hyper market(it is called eMart) to buy house needs.We bought wardrobe,pillows,beds,pail and so on. Then, we had our lunch at SCR(local restaurant above the eMart).Most of the evening we spend in the house to pack down our stuffs,rest and so on.

There was one incident happen that night.Since we were given only one copy of keys by the houseowner, we duplicate to make it three sets. One of our friends stayed at his aunt's house that night.So we decided to give him a set of keys in case he need to return home when we were not around(we went to dinner at Restoran Muara).Unfortunately, we didn't realize that we gave him the original copy.So what happen was, when we return home that night, we tried all 3 sets of keys to open the doors. None of it worked. Therefore, we stayed at our seniors' house for the night.

p/s:There are many things to tell about my experience here.But I will tell later.
p/p/s: Is enjoying Internet like Ive never seen it before

Reality of life

I might not be the right person to talk about this.But i do have something in my head that i think worth writing.Maybe not for you readers, but for me;to advise the future me (this is like Ted Mosby writing to future himself why he shouldn't date his ex-es.But on this case,its totally different)

Few days back or months I should say, I have been busy searching for internship placement for next semester. After attending the internship briefing, I was really excited (there's always excitement in first time experience). Turn out that the next day, I listed all the PE related companies; googling on the net, to find exciting companies and their addresses.(Hell, I was really that enthusiastic)

I even write,re-write,re-write and I forgot for how many times I need to correct my resume. Well, basically it was easy to refer to your senior's resume until I met Mr.Idham from the career unit. He said 'UTP students' resume are all the same. The company won't even look at your resume'. There I go, study back my resume and re-write it.

Well, after completing my resume, I called all the company listed. As usual, they asked me to mail my resume and other related documents. But most of the companies said there's no internship placement at their companies. The worst thing I experienced was ; the person hang up on me when I introduced myself as a student.

It has been a month and there's still no offer from the listed companies. There is one company that I didn't apply but offer me. It is PETRONAS. Thanks to SIIU.

That's the reality in PE field right now. People(most) always say that I would have bright future in PE but they don't know how we, as a student face difficulty in finding INTERNSHIP placement. Hell, I can't imagine how tough it will be to find JOB.

So, to FUTURE me, be grateful on any offers given to you, and choose wisely because this is reality of life. It is difficult to live in.

p/s: good luck guys in finding internship placement!