Friday, September 11, 2009

Why The Hell Am I Awake Still?

Soooo... why the hell am i awake still?
i duno.
juz cant fall asleep.
and i've gota b up in abt 5hrs.

the last 2 1/2 days of the sea trial was a terror.
was climbing up n down these 2 hatches dat were like prolly 8m down from the main deck,
try to solve the mystery of the non-working equipment.

i've got 2 identical systems running on the port(left) and starboard(right) side of the drill ship.
the port side works perfectly fine. and somehow the stbd one doesn't.

as part of troubleshooting, i took parts dat i suspected were faulty from the starboard side to test on the port side.
but every time, the parts work fine when i bring them over.
and the working parts from the port side are tested on the starboard side and they dun work.
so it'll mean all the parts dat i've swapped are not the cause of the fault.
so after 2 16hr-workdays of swapping and testing, the problem is still not solved.

and it din help dat the customer was complaining abt how they had gone out on the sea trial on the pretext dat everything is working,
and how much it'll cost them to go out for another trial juz to test the system and to show the approving authorities dat the system works, and blah blah blah.

and of coz, with every part swapped and the problem not solved, i was getting v tired n irritated also.
the nice thing amidst all these rush n pressure was dat the workers who were assisting me,
were all there to help me with wadever i needed to do.
and i'm grateful for these angels for helping me out.

now dat i'm back onshore, the problem still needs to be resolved and i've still gota b going back to the ship next week to work on the problem.
but dat's next week's worries. i'm gona enjoy my weekend and rest as much as i can.

for now, i'm going to try to get some sleep.
not much rest i'll b getting tonite i guess but oh wells, i've gota try at least.
nites everyone n see ya soon!

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