Packing Up

Its Monday, 30th June , 3.10pm and im packing up.


This morning i said goodbye to the Chai, Ann, Yun .. last night i said goodbye to the whole lot of pakistani/indians and the day before to Mitch, Ky and Chris.


Half and hour ago i said goodbye to Wes and Yasu.


In another hours time I'll say goodbye to Oscar and then at 7 i'll send off abdul and Ali.

Then its just going to be 3 of us girls left here at the Blue Towers.

I came to OFS-1 a little bit hesitant and not quite sure what to expect. Its surprising that in the space of a week I found people I could talk to, could go out with. . just the simple act of having dinner together or lunchbreaks together means alot when you're somewhere new and dont know anyone.

Im packing up and feeling just a little blue at the thought of moving on. I was getting comfortable.. Now theres so few of us left and so much free time it feels strange .. kind of lonely i guess. . But thats life. Move on, meet new people, make the best out of everything.


I had a good time here in Abu Dhabi. And its hard to imagine going to Qatar where i'll be starting out all over again. Im feeling a little envious that Mus and Wes will both be going to Labuan together.

Cross fingers, hope that i'll be okay.

When I say it fast i call it Abi Dhabi

Only a day or so left till i pack up and leave Abu Dhabi for my next location.

I dont know, although is different here i've settled into some sort of routine, made some friends..
Its going to be difficult going to a location where i know noone. At all.


Judging from the geographical coefficient, Qatar isnt all that bad . . Judging from what I've been told, if you want to go out in Kemaman, it would be better just to head to Kuantan. Damn.


Anyway, I dont do much here.. at the moment its just alot of courses (ALL DAY, OMG) so by the time we get back there isnt much time to do anything..

I wake up around 5.30 am everyday (SHIT SO EARLY) and now im just tired.. Maybe its the food, maybe its the heat... Im just so tired. Havent had much of an appetite either, i have a chicken whopper, a steak and cheese subway, a few subway cookies and chicken briyani sitting in the fridge. Just not hungry. Oh well.

By the way, stuff here is EXPENSIVE! And the meal portions are huge ! Even the McDonalds burgers are bigger (the regular is our large - i couldnt finish it) and a medium McChicken meal was 19dirhams.

Sorry if i cant call you all, 20 dirhams for 10 minutes is wayyy out of my budget

Did go out to visit the malls and do a little sightseeing . . which may be why im so tired cos im spending my rest time going out, but im only gonna be here once . . so . .


I got my coveralls. Now i look like a giant blueberry.

Dusty and Hot

Greetings for Abu Dhabi!

After flying what felt like a ridiculously long time across Malaysia and India I arrived in Abu Dhabi international Airport at around 1am local time (its 4 hours behind here). It took like forever to get through immigration and by the time i hopped onto the SLB bus (it has seatbelts!), took another neverending drive down to wherever i am and checked in to my room it was like 3am.

Thats coming to 7am for the rest of you all in Malaysia. T T

Its an intersting place (even though i haven't left my room yet), very square.

Miss all of you.
Miss the fact that i've got noone to poke fun at the blue lights in the bus or the seatbelts
And that they drive on the opposite side of the road and it feels damn weired
Or that its hot and dusty and very square
And that there arent any big trees and the skies are cloudless
And that people really do wear the red checked cloth on their heads (like in the movies!)
etc etc etc

I will be back soon!

A Thought

Five years, one week and 5 days ago, I said goodbye to Him.

He hugged me, and whispered into my ear " I'm going to miss you the most"

Seems like a lifetime ago, things have changed so much since then.

Its funny how certain things trigger your memory.

Shhhh...

Dont tell my mum, but i let the doggies into the house while everyone was away all week!
A marker of time. How did this fluffy little critter


Morph into this?

Banana Muffin

As I sit here in Coffee Bean inhaling the scent of banana muffins and black coffee and sipping my Southern Blend, I wonder if this is what i'll be doing for some time to come. Scabbing of airport wifi and passing time online while i wait for my boarding call.

Damn, thank God laptops (my pretty red Dell!) and wifi.

Seriously.

I need a haircut, I hate my current shaggy look.

Almost There

OMG OMG OMG

Its already Sunday, which means that I have less than 4 days to pack up and get ready for a whole new (hard and boring) chapter of my life.

Im leaving Friday. FRIDAY. So soon!?! Im not ready! I cant do it . .

Flight to KL on Friday to sign a few papers, then off to Dubai on Saturday, arrive on Sunday, take a van ride to Abu Dhabi, check in to my service apartment (hopfully its nice, and i dont share rooms) and crash. Then its up at 5am on Monday to get ready for my OFS-1 i.e. welcome to the oil field.

One week.

The I'm back in KL for a day or two before packing up my whole freakin life and moving to Kemaman. Terengganu. I have nothing decent to wear.

TERENGGANU. The only thing that comes to mind when I think of Terengganu is keropok lekor.

I'm worried. Not just about the place, but about the job, about everything. Its hard to leave everything behind, even more so when its for an indefinite period of time. What do I look forward to now? I know I said I'm up for the challenge, but sometimes I doubt myself. I look back on my past days and I realised I was never really alone; I always had someone to back me up. So i graduated from uni with reasonable good results, but still feeling a little like a fraud. Cos I dont know if I could have done it by myself.

I know I should be taking things with a pinch of salt, but horror stories are horror stories all the same.

I'm really going to miss my home. And my friends. And my pets. We all do what we have to, but it wasnt an easy choice to make.

My mind is in a mess

Things I need to get done, ASAP

1. Make a gazillion photocopies of everything
2. Get a new bank account
3. Buy luggage
4. PACK
5. Fix my glasses
6. Get my drivers license
7. Hunt out my transcripts from USM
8. Flight tickets
9. Clear my room
10. Get suitable (boring) clothes
11. Get my vaccinations
12. Go to a money changer
...

OH CRAP

TGIF ?

Lately, I've been going to TGIF way waaayy too frequently. I dont know what on earth possessed me to imagine that I could finish a whole entire mud pie by myself, but thats what I ordered ( In my defense, we were there for dessert, i might as well eat. Diet be dammned)

Obviously I couldnt finish it so i asked to 'tapau' the mud pie.

You should have seen the servers face. Hahahaha . . . He told me it wasnt possible.

Its a good thing the manager dude there can recognise us, this is what he packed for me:
A piece half eaten piece of mudpie wrapped in foil and surrounded by ice.

When i got home i couldnt get the mudpie out of the ice, the damn thing froze solid.

On another note, its already the 12th of June! Crap! 10 more days till I have to pack up and leave. The holidays passed too fast. . . Im not ready to start work, I'm starting to doubt myself cos when people think of (Lisa + Oil field) they find it hard to swallow. Like i cant do it.

Yes, i KNOW i act like a complete piece of fluff every now and then but still . . . we fluffy cretins have little fluffly egos too . .

What have i gotten myself into now?!