Friday, the last day of our first week's course. Today, we went over the field assignment procedures again as a final check. I still did not get my topic to work on in the field and apparently it will only be discussed when i get there. JB also will be getting his only when he arrives in Thailand. I've already taken a look at some of the others and they're not easy. Oh, the suspense is killing me (not really, i'm too phlegmatic for that :p).
Melissa, Jocelyn and Melanie then had to leave for their field assignment offshore. I'm guessing they got the best or rather the most comfortable assignment since it will be on 3D vessels, which i've heard can be quite nice (unlike the small 2D vessels i used to ride in). At least they don't have to worry about being exposed to harsh environments except for the occasional bad weather perhaps, as compared to those going to Canada and Alaska (go Shangar!).
The final part of the session was back at the office, a briefing on HSE (Health, Safety and Environment for those of you who are not familiar to this term). Humberto, the speaker, had a great sense of humour. As Cecile pointed out, HSE isn't exactly something that everyone was looking forward to which Humberto only knew all too well. I'm not a good storyteller but he said something like, "You guys don't wanna be here; i don't wanna be here coz i know you guys don't wanna be here but i have to be here anyway" (guys, care to help me out here with the explanation?)
Anyway, with the HSE out of the way, it was again shopping time for some of the others who still needed to finish their shopping. I don't know how it happened but i ended up going back to the hotel with only Irwin. Everybody just seemed to have something else to do, but we did meet up again for dinner, this time at a chinese halal restaurant as Shifa was craving for chicken after going vegetarian for a week. Most of the other guys hadn't really eaten at a chinese restaurant before so they didn't really know what to order. To cut the story short, everybody ended up sharing the food, with a chicken dish here, a vege there, some beef dumplings on another side and one too many fried rice ordered, he he. But the food was quite nice...definitely nicer than the first chinese meal we had on Monday.
With all of that out of the way, Scott lead us to Sercel which was about half an hour's drive away from the office. I was kinda expecting to see a factory of some sort since they do make half of the equipment that CGGV is using (not to mention the fact that CGGV does own Sercel). Unfortunately, it was only a presentation in the classroom about the equipment while we were having lunch. We did get away with some nice goodies though :). And it was rather funny sitting in the backrow watching Kasia and Cecile fooling around with the geophones (oops...shouldn't have said that, should i?).
The final part of the session was back at the office, a briefing on HSE (Health, Safety and Environment for those of you who are not familiar to this term). Humberto, the speaker, had a great sense of humour. As Cecile pointed out, HSE isn't exactly something that everyone was looking forward to which Humberto only knew all too well. I'm not a good storyteller but he said something like, "You guys don't wanna be here; i don't wanna be here coz i know you guys don't wanna be here but i have to be here anyway" (guys, care to help me out here with the explanation?)
Anyway, with the HSE out of the way, it was again shopping time for some of the others who still needed to finish their shopping. I don't know how it happened but i ended up going back to the hotel with only Irwin. Everybody just seemed to have something else to do, but we did meet up again for dinner, this time at a chinese halal restaurant as Shifa was craving for chicken after going vegetarian for a week. Most of the other guys hadn't really eaten at a chinese restaurant before so they didn't really know what to order. To cut the story short, everybody ended up sharing the food, with a chicken dish here, a vege there, some beef dumplings on another side and one too many fried rice ordered, he he. But the food was quite nice...definitely nicer than the first chinese meal we had on Monday.
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