Thursday, July 31, 2008

B.O.R.E.D

being at home with nth to do makes me appreciate my work so much more..
at least being in the office with tasks to complete, time pass really quick...
my last time check was 2pm... my current time check is 2.10pm... get the idea?

arg...

it sucks feeling sick... and it sucks feeling bored.... i was contemplating booking a circuit revision today... but i dun trust my stomach though...

just now i experienced a pain i nv had before... it was so excruciating tt i didnt even have the strength to call out to my sis... so i could only rest in my chair and will the pain away...
but as suddenly as the pain came... few minutes later, it subsided and everything seemed fine up to this point... i wonder whats wrong with me...

i shld listen to the doc and go for a scan.... if its some cancer, at least i detected it early....

mm....

but well...

anyway i was surfing through STOMP webbie and i came across the post that my darling showed me tt day... 




wat a great idea to get ppl exercising without realizing it! haha... it was quite a novelty if Singapore really did it... we'll no longer be known as the FINE city.. we'll changed to be known as ERP(Every Route Pay..i/o Every Road Pay)..

but i believe i wun be laughing if we really had to do it... tourists would come visit...but only to admire how our govt make money out of shoppers...ha!




Wednesday, July 30, 2008

haha... i dun realized how lazy i actually am till i read my previous blog and realized i STILL have not gotten down to doing wat i said io'll do...

whatever....

i'm now blogging in my office...

believe it or not...and if the time reflects at 9.06pm, dun be surprised... the office is like my second home...

i shld get back to work....

later~~

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Lesson 6!

Woo Hoo~ sweet...

i cleared my assessment first time!! hahahahha...now i'm on to lesson 6 part 1.. but that is if i can get my PDL done out real soon...

but yeah......yang just went on to lesson 6 part 2... heez...not that i wanna compete la...but i use it as a bench mark to learn and improve more quickly and get that license in my possession real soon...

i've so much photos stored in my phone now...

1) Lilian's birthday celebration
2) Pre-U frens get together at New Asia Bar
3) Chilli Noodle makan session with my girlfriends

hahahah....it was a blast of a time this week...

but not at work.. i'm glad i'm the kind that can play when its time to play...and work when its time to work.. can't blame me... i made 2 major mistakes at work in 1 week... with all the stress building up...how can i not set aside some time for eating, drinking and playing to release the stress build-up?

i still have alot of explanations to do:

- Pastor Susan, as i haven been going for Children Church
- Adrian, as i haven been making it down for cell
- Deb, for screwing up my new zealand booking

And i have to absolutely say thank you to:

- God, for all the problems at work settled in the most miraculous ways
- Kenny, for helping me with the explanation to my vessel's capt and teaching me alot of stuff
- Capt Fadil for accepting my cargo graciously
- My girlfriends for all the fun!
- My bike instructors for all the biking skills picked up
- My Darling, for putting up with my moods
- My family, for knowing when to leave me alone and when to offer a listening ear

the list can go on...

now let me do some explanation abt wat happened:

First mistake made:

i accepted some pipes onto the vessel, Tasman Mariner 140827, going to the New Zealand port Tauranga. However, it didnt occur to me that this vessel doesnt take breakbulk cargo to this destination and i had aldy sent out a letter of confirmation to the local shipper. Although the time btw my confirmation and her accepting my cfm wasnt long...but she worked fast. She immediately ordered for the barge to bring in the cargo just to meet the timing of our connecting vessel.. the nxt day when i tried to explain to her tt there is absolutely no way for us to take her cargo, she told me all arrangements had been made. We have to take it or she'll  have wasted abt $20,000 on the barge.

i didnt know wat to do. in the end Marco discussed it with capt Fadil and the operations team and decided that it is minutely possible to take it onboard T.Mar but that means the space available for other breakbulk items are greatly reduced as the pipes are stored in a very awkward position.

so ok. problem solved.

den came another NZ booking to Masden Point. It's another breakbulk cargo. 120MT(120,000kg) of steel plates. Initially all was fine. Cargo was initially accepted onboard T.Mar to Auckland(Masden point and Auckland very close geographically). However, Capt adviced that there's no space to take the cargo and thus it had to be rolled to the nxt available vessel T.Independence 140828. And all still seem fine as T.Ind calls directly at Masden point and the consignee had no issue abt waiting for this vessel berthing on 02/08.

the prob came when i failed to re-send a cfm informing the local supplier that the cargo is not going onboard T.Mar(berthing 19/07). so the local supplier had aldy sent in the 120MT of steel plates into PPW(pasir panjang wharf).

now note this. when cargoes are left in the wharf for more than 72hrs(unless they are given 21days free detention), store rent would be charged by PSA. like i had said earlier, the nxt earliest vessel berthing in Sin is 02/08 -- 2 weeks(14 days!) away. imagine the amount of store rent to be paid for the cargo sitting there in the wharf because of my carelessness -- i calculated..would amt to abt $84K. All this would be on Swire's account--- and there goes my bonus.

But of course the bonus is not the main point. The point is, how are we to solve the prob?

Option 1) take the cargo onboard T.Mar as initally planned but had to drop some other shipper's cargo. And pay for the transshipment fee to move it from Auckland to Masden point.

Option 2) pay for the transportation for transporting the steel plates back to the supplier first and then transporting it back to the wharf again 2 weeks later

Option 3) pay for the store rent

Option 4) pray that T.Mar actually had space to take in the cargo.

Conclusion: Capt Fadil said that there was actually some space to take in the steel plates and so he's willing to load it on. And from the consignee's end, they had actually requested to go Auckland instead of Masden point the day before and we were not informed yet. So it turned out, everything settled nicely. Cargo going on T.Mar to Auckland. No extra payments or arrangements needed.

I'm so amazed by how things worked out. God's grace can never be fathomed by us. Never in a million years would i have foreseen that things would turn out this way. Tell me, who would've expected the vessel to have space at the last min? who would've expected the consignee to change destination at the last min? and of course, I'm thankful for the graciousness of Capt Fadil for taking in my cargo without making things difficult for me. ( from wat i learnt from Kenny abt another capt when he made a similar mistake)

so other minor stuff like finally settling my tally report which was way overdue and the trade manager was hounding me for it like crazy. i was trying to tally something that i didnt know wats wrong and at the same time meet all the deadlines for other tasks as my new colleague didnt know how to do any of it. that week had been so crazy and stressful that i almost broke down halfway. it also includes the many hrs of OT that had to be put in to catch up on work. OT till 11plus was smth i nv knew i had to do till that week....and prob many weeks to come...as long as my new colleague doesnt learn fast enuf.

ok. guess i shld stop procrastinating and get down to getting that email of apology and explanation out to my bosses and managers and capt.

tata~ God's grace is absolutely amazing through it all!

Saturday, July 12, 2008

uh... i'm so shack even as i'm updating ma blog with events of this past week...
after countless complaints abt Sam quitting...we finally had the new girl in to replace Sam. but wat an understatement to use the word 'replace'.

its hardly considered replacing! she's as INEXPERIENCED as i had been. but of course, she's a determined 19-yr-old... quick to learn and pick up what's taught to her. but time isnt allowing her to take things slow! but haiz...she's still learning how to do the basic bookings. looks like i'll be handling 2 vessels each time from now to God knows when.
but i do enjoy working with her. at least she has drive and initiative. a positive learner too.

i just hope she can pick up faster. being only 3 month old in the company for me, i'm getting indefinitely panicky as the day Sam is leaving draws near.

i'm really hating the countdown. arg....guess its do or die.


wed night i had my 3rd circuit revision. and with no exception, my revision went horribly wrong. it made me wonder why did i even reach this stage in the first place. but well the bright side of it, i had my fave instructor to guide me throughout. haha. talk abt privileged treatment. HA!

but yeah. can tell he enjoyed teaching me. but i must say...he and this other instructor can teach really well. i just feel so comfortable with their teaching style. but the blur sotong tot i changed specs. haha. he said there's smth different abt me tt night but he cant seem to figure out wat. den he asked issht i changed glasses. i told him no quizzically and i rode off. it was only later den i realized tt he didnt realize the difference was just me wearing glasses for lesson. as i nv wore glasses those past times when he taught me.

haha.

but yeah. i still haven had the chance to tell him thats the reason i looked different...and prettier according to him....hahahahah! i must tell yang. cuz yang said i looked better w/o my glasses.

after my lesson, i headed down to Zouk with Justina to meet Chuan and his friends. But it hadnt been much fun. cuz the stamp i received denied me entry to phuture. Bah....so irritating. and i felt so bad abt having the rest of them stuck in the Mambo side because of me.

so i made a wise and heroic decision. i decide to head home by myself. HA! heroic k? i didnt know where i was walking while making my way out of Zouk cuz all the smoke is drying out my contacts and i didnt wanna rub my eyes in case i smeared my mascara.

haha. but yeah. good thing i was there regular enuf for me to make my way out w/o looking too lost. haha. must keep up a good image. esp when i'm leaving just as the party started!

as hesitant as i felt abt leaving, it was a wise choice la. i still had work the nxt day. i was surprised i could even get out of my bed.

the rest of the week passed quickly. and today i did my 4th CR. seeing improvement today, i decided i should just book for my assessment nxt sat. so again, Wed night i shall hava my CR, sat morning is another 2hrs of CR followed by my circuit assessment.

phew. i hope all my practice will not go to waste and i can move on to lesson 6 soon!

its now time to get ready for Lilian's 21st...its been so long since i last saw her! i must take lots and lots of pictures!!!

Friday, July 4, 2008






Work may be work.... as stress as everything had been... my colleagues nv seem to forget to have some crazy fun when time allowed... haha... i was so busy laughing at their antics tt i forgot to take photos of it all...

nevertheless, i finally had the chance to take photos of my desk and my office... but its mainly my side of the office... had the urge to take photo of my boss and his room...but he seem super busy so i had decided against it...

well...this was wen things hadnt been too intense... today i'm once again home from bouts of diarrhoea... the stress level is getting higher by the day.... now with 2 vessels calling in port, i had to go back to office even on sat because of my leave from work today...or monday might just gimme a heart attack...

i do enjoy my work...when i know wat i'm doing...

and i hate it wen i realized i made the same mistakes over and over again whenever a vessel berths....

Marco had been extremely patient with me....but i honestly dun want any mistakes to be repeated anymore... by nature i'm extremely careless with details....this job had helped me improve my organisational skills and made me much more systematic in multi-tasking... but i'm definitely still not good enuf..

my colleagues had been doing alot in helping to lighten my load... and i feel very bad abt it...so i must learn as much as i can so tt i can take back and do my duties while they can enjoy a lighter workload.... i do wonder why they dun wanna get more people into the dept?

sighz... ok... i guess i need to go check  my mails and start working a little from home.