This will be my first and last post in January 2008. So many things has happened. I don’t know how to start and what to write so I decided to compile it in few paragraphs.

Go to Oil and Gas Academy in Cepu to visit the Operations apprentice. Had a good laugh during presentation. My boss was just brilliant and charming and entertaining. I am glad that I got the opportunity to travel with him. Spent the night in the spooky hotel built on 1942. Hang on to dear sanity by ‘divorcing’ a married couple so the wife could sleep with me and the husband could sleep with my (also spooked) friend. Tasted the most delicious sate kambing. Had a ride from Semarang to Cepu with passing through rice fields and mountains. Thunderous rain.

Going offshore for 4 days. Wake up at 2 am to catch the 4 am flight to Matak. Halim airport does not have ladies toilet. Went into man’s toilet and caused some scream when I left the john which I ignored. Nature call. What can I say? I gotta go when I gotta go. First time riding chopper. It was amazing. Gazing Matak’s beach from above took my breath away and when we flew through the cloud…ah! It was better than sex. First journey was to Belida. The view gave me another jolt of orgasm. Friendly people. Great food. We were thoroughly spoilt. Karaoke all night. Great people. Warm and friendly. Again and again. The bullet of ecstasy pierced through my heart. It was a through and through. Left a hole in me. Love it. Gazing at the flare. And the ocean blue. And the DPP-A (Drilling Production Platform A). Went to Hang Tuah MOGPU (Movable Offshore Gas Production Unit)  on the second day. A swayingly quiet place. Literally. Tougher audience. Cold and distance apart of some people. Spooked again. This was the place where an employee got fatal accident. My friend’s bed above me was rattled by an unknown spirit. But I slept through the night undisturbed. Swayed by the wave. Went to FPSO Belanak on the third day. Ah Belanak. The Jewel of Offshore Operations. 285 m long (ca. 1,000 foot). 50 m wide. 40 m height. Thouroughly excited by the technology. Intimidated by the size. Loved every inch of it. Wish I could stay and be educated longer. OK audience. Most were friendly. Some were not. Which is normal. I am an HR after all. The supes were helpful and kind and considerate. Being perfect gentlemen towards their new female generalist. Took endless pictures. And again, thoroughly spoilt by the food and karaoke.

Suharto is dead. Facing the Supreme Judge who can not be bribed or intimidated. May God bless his soul and spare some forgiveness. I would not want to be him in front of Him.

Being my normal pain in the a** self. Love to be busied. Buried under the work load. Love my client. Love offshore engineering more. Estatic to find picture gallery in the intranet. Has lost 7 kg. Diarrhea. Thinking things that I should not be thinking about. Feeling things I should not be feeling about. Unable to speak things that should have been spoken about. Forgive me for being me. Preparing my self for my Bandung trip next week for Campus Recruit Program. Will do 2 presentation in one Tuesday morning. And a public holiday in the middle of the week. Yay!