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Friday, July 3, 2009

That time

I didn't get a chance to blog and now I'm back in Bangkok with nothing but good news about my trip. Unless you count having the trots, spending four nights on a titanium slab masquerading as a mattress, getting up at 5am to climb onto a "personal basket" (see video), being transported by boat to the workplace for 7am, doing a whole day of watching the other guy fix everything, then doing the whole transfer-by-boat thing to be home by 8pm, to sleep on the slab for two or three fitful hours, to do it all again...sorry but you got me started.

The good news is, fingers crossed, he (Mr Wonderware) fixed it and we can now get on with finishing the job. That starts this weekend when I work Saturday and Sunday to get ready for a test next week. No rest for the righteous.

Some photgraphic/videographic evidence of my trip:

This is me using a personal basket to get off the crew boat and onto the platform. Did this at beginning and end of every day because we stayed on Millennium, whcih is normally alongside but has been moved a mile away to give room for some new pipelines to be installed.

Mister Wonderware (Chuan - nice guy) and Peter posing.

Sunrise from Millennium deck. Good eh?

Benchamas platform, twice.

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I'm an engineer. Expect the expected. I hate coriander. Repeating tensions such as clocks and dripping taps, which drive some people crazy, don't seem to affect me. I'm 51 and my backhand is still a work in progress. I once drank seven mugs of tea in 15 minutes. I have trouble understanding why people keep dogs as pets. All of my names contain 7 letters. Deep water represents the unknown, which terrifies me. I read slowly. I eat quickly. I was briefly insane in the autumn of 1990. My happiest moments were spent throwing arrows around a field when I was 12. My favourite colour is blue. I rarely catch colds. I believe that not taking part in any physical activity after the age of 30 is the equivalent of not ducking when being punched. I accept and respect the existence of an opposite point of view. I wish I had a good plot idea so I could write a book. I have never bought a tabloid newspaper. I sink in water. Of the five people I spent my teenage years with, three are dead. I think that in a family context, love should be unconditional. I believe to the core of my being that man's most divisive and destructive creation is God. I neglected my father and regret it now he's gone. I can hear and memorise numbers instantly and retain them indefinitely, but forget what my wife tells me in seconds. I dislike fruit in desserts. Masks scare me. If you shorten my first name I'll think you're stupid. I intend to live to the age of 121.

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