Back and Gone Again Soon...

Hey everyone...

i'm back liao... actually was back on monday. but was busy meeting upo w friends for dinner...
and a little lazy to blog abt my trip..

this trip was quite ok... din go bak to shore often like the last time coz the trip back to shore will take us like abt 20-24hrs...
so after we left the jetty, it was a 24hr journey to the survey sites and another 17 days of work thereafter...

think i like thai airways so much better than MAS.

first, i get to eat w proper cutlery, instead of the crappy plasticky ones MAS gives their passengers.
secondly, they offer us nice hot rolls to go w our meals. MAS offers none... bleh.

while enroute to the survey site, we went past a few oil rigs that were there. and we were actually quite close to one... so grabbed the opportunity for a photo moment.

i absolutely love the views i get while working offshore... those gorgeous sunsets and sunrises are sights to behold. the other good thing abt this trip is dat the waters in the guf of thailand are very very calm... it almost looks like it's water in a tub... w/o a thrashing baby in it...hehe.

and made another discovery... if u had tot dat gardenia only sells bread, guess again...
we had strawberry flavoured soft drinks onboard...

so dat was work in general...

after we got back, i and another 2 friends got a taxi to take us to hatyai, a 45mins drive from our hotel in songkhla. we spent a few hours there, trying to buy some tees and stuff...
in the end, i only got a t-shirt. we also went to this salon to get our ears cleaned out...
so the girl whipped out her set of tools like cotton buds and wat-not and got down to work..
felt damn good after dat... also went to the nearby mac's to grab a bite...
and saw on the menu a sight we'll never get to see in sg...

pork in their menu...

after dat went back to the hotel coz we were having a end-of-job dinner paid for by the manager.
the food was excellent. had crabs, prawns, tom yam soup, veg, squid.

went for couple of drinks and den it's off to bed b4 going home the next day...

really miss seeing and going out w my friends, esp close ones whom i see almost every week.
well... dun u all forget me ya...

havent uploaded the fotos to flickr yet.. so will let u all know once they're up.

Grooming Day

Went to get my haircut yesterday...
when i was walking to the hairdresser's @ meridien
saw this mani-pedi place on the ground floor...

den began contemplating if i shd go for a mani-pedi or not.
shoved off the thought when i reached the salon.

after my haircut, as i walking out, tot i'll ask how much first...
by dat time, i was v much inclined to get a mani-pedi.
so went to the shop, asked for the price and got one done...
hehe...

it was quite a funny sight,
seeing some of the ppl doing a double take when they see a guy in there getting his nails done...

so i now have nice shiny nails... :)
think i'll have a mani-pedi everytime i come back from a trip...
it's quite a pampering feeling... Mmmm....

so ladies, feel free to ask me along if u cant find any mani-pedi buddy... :)
this makes it my 3rd mani and 2nd pedi in my life...
and the beginning of more to come i guess...

oh well... leaving for thailand tom. think i'll be buying some tees...
if u have anything u want me to get for u, sms me.

or if u need to get hold of me, u can email me at: Fugro_3@hmcmail.com
and pls put my name in the subject header...
this is the common email addy everyone on the ship uses.
and it's only applicable to this current trip.

and i think i'll try to make a new friend on each flight i take.
and so make myself talk to the stranger next to me, and expand my contacts..
and i'm planning to record my weight b4 and after every trip.
see if i've gained weight... haha...
can get pretty fattening, juz eating and sleeping onboard...

weight before trip: 66kg

we'll see when i get back ;)