Final day at work

Ah, just the day i'm waiting for...managed to arrange/tranfer worker to a new worker quarter at Sentul. Apart from that, i tranfered all my critical data to my admin officer jst in case. Hope everything go smoothly. My boss's advices just before i leave the site "enjoy your holiday & don't think about work". Thanks, that is cute, never had a boss talk to me like that hehe..sayonara!!

Gone in 60 seconds.

S*%$, at this instant, we loss our last surviving of 15ft aluminum ladder.... this happen in broad daylight , where it kept on the forklift for 3pm - tea break!! The thieves are getting efficient & bold! Well, look like we have to settle with makeshift wooden ladder, to facilitate the perimeter hoarding dismantling works.

Annual Diary/planner

Received our company's 2007 Diary/planner today...simply love the blue colored simplicity book. (hum, in term of design & content...it look similar to my Prudential's red colored 2007 diary/planner which i received recently. Still prefer the comb binding type hehe). Thank you, boss.

No more 'protection'

As site already being cleared from debri, it is time for the site office perimeter fencing/hoarding to go. In security perspective, we are exposed to the 'dark' world as we are sandwiched between 2 residential flats. So, hired security personnels has to be more vigilant of their surrounding a.k.a work harder to uphold site's integrity. Hope that we can arrange shifting of worker's quarters/office to the new site at Sentul pronto.

1 week to go

Holiday mood already, yeah!!...getting myself busy by preparing some paperworks before hand-over my work to my subordinate. Pre-arrange of workers & material transfer to a new site will be my main priority.

Refined clearing works

This is more tedious work, pick-up tiny but dangerous debri manually by hand. Basicaly, it is important to safe guard citizen from getting hurt from broken glass, plank with nails, etc. After we open up our barrier, our ex-office compound will become big 'playground'. Biasalah, when people start seeing open area, macam-macam boleh jadi...kids running around playing football, car started to park inside...you name it.

Our dump site area..will be bury & compacted with earth later

Transfer of knowledge/responsiblities

Time to transfer or share my knowledge/responsibility to my subordinates & workers as I'm going for a looooong leave soon hehe.. hope that they can manage the site properly. It's also a high time for us Block D is speculated to be 'handed-over' on mid-December, so it is wise to brief they early to avoid any complication when I'm not around.

Part of the scope, is the key auditing work. About 5.5k of them need to be recheck or retest to ensure the door's locksets are functioning well.

A slow start

Scheduled for site's constuction waste @ debri clearing works since yesterday, but only 1 tipper lorry turned up only at noon. This is really bad for business lah. According to the hired transporter's manager, most of their driver still sleeping due to previous overnight work.

As for today, 4 tipper lorries are provided to transport the waste out. With this type of work momentum, guess that the clearing works will only be completed within a week time. (originally planned that the work 'should' be completed with 2 - 3 days only)

Clearing & leveling of earth process is critical so that we can proceed with dismantling of perimeter hoarding & finally 'move out' or closed down the site.

With GPS, will measure.

As there are no surveyor personnel available on site, my boss & i decided to use our own consumer base GPSr unit (armed with Dopod P100 & Garmin 60CSx) to set-out the approx. boundary for our new site office at Sentul. Well, need those measurements/reference points for further site layout drawing. Glad that this devices can be suitable 'substitute' for measuring tape in time of emergency hehe. Hum, who said the the GPSr is only good in navigation....

The treasure

We are going for the tin mining works today...just kidding. Not much of works available for my 5 Indon laborers recently. So decided to retrieve back the 'cast-in' steel base plat originated from temporary site building(office, store, worker's quarters) Yup, recycle @ reuse it for next project use. Why waste money isn't it. Hope to savage it as many as we can to control construction cost.





The ex-building foundation.










Excavation or concrete slab breaking works in progress. The E200 Hictachi Excavator is a truly mean machine.









The 'nugget'. Collected & tranfered from excavation site by Manitou multipurpose forklift.











'Fine' or clean up hacking/breaking work with electrical breaker by laborer.

And finally, the collected treasures..ready for reuse.

Darn, they are so 'good'

They did it again!! The target, our main site office storage yard. As reported, it happened at 2.30am, where 7 to 8 masked robber simply take their 'sweet time' carried their loot. Fortunately, they didn't manage to cart away the high tension electrical cable when the guard spotted they & sounded the alarm. However, we loss 3 out of 4 6 meter length aluminium ladder which were kept above the steel cargo container. What the h#@* we hired the guards for...the 'robbery' happened exactly in front of guard post!! Serious, gonna make the Security company bear the losses.

The only 'survivor' from the odeal.

The visitation

Spent some time at Main Sentul Project office this morning for clerical works. Actually, my clerk is temporary stationed here since Setapak's main office demobilized. So, all the Setapak's correspondent will be handle at this office. Anyway, the Sentul office is still under minor renovation as core personnel is slowing filling to their new workstation. I like the floor plan as it is quite spacey & 'strictly no smoking room' hehe.

New Site survey

As mentioned earlier, my next posting will be the KTM Sentul - Batu Cave railway project. Had a site visit together with my boss & storekeeper just now. Gonna plan for the new site office/worker quarters layout (preliminary preparation) before 'full-swing' work by early next year.

Red alert: Perimeter breached

Damaged hoarding at Block D perimeter

As reported by the security chief & night watchmen: at 2.30am, 7 face covered men with sticks & parang broke into our newly completed apartment's steel hoarding. They might be going after the lightning copper strips which are installed on at the 18's storey roof (high resale value), or internal unit wiring cable, or the steel water meter block. Whatever it is, they are up to no good.




Thank God, the attempted robbery was stop/chased away by the our security firm's rotweiler dog who stood on guard at the block. Upon further inspection, not lost in property reported.

<- This dog is really mean.. personally, i don't dare to go near this cute 'puppy'


For record, this is the fouth incidents (3 times losses in copper strip & electrical cable) in 6 months period. Setapak will not be a safe heaven if the relevant authority never regulate the safety patrol & control the 'mushrooming' illegal scrap collection center.

Getting used to the new 'mini' site office

The new 'mini' site office

Being about a week now since we 'transfer' to mini office. All office telecommunication is out, except on our own personal handphone. Hope that the company refurbish our prepaid top up card for official calls hehe.





< Demolition work in progress for the main office.

For safety reason, i had sent out all PC equipments back to our EDP department at HQ. To date, I reserved only 1 HP deskjet colour printer to compliment my personal notebook for impromptu paper work.






Without the fix broadband service, had to rely on my Celcom 3G mobile services via E61 smartphone as modem. It's a bitter sweet affair as the broadband is fairly unstable. Can't blame the telco as my mini office is sandwich between 2 18 storey high apartments.

My personal workstation-------->

Overview of the constuction site (taken 2 months ago from completed Low cost apartment nearby)

Worker's quarters caught fire!

"Api! api!" shouted by canteen lady who spotted the fire at one of my worker's room. It turn out that the Main electrical distribution board (DB) caught fire & produce thick smoke. Luckily no casualties & major damage of property.

Burned DB board at the worker's room

During further investigation, found out the illegal 'tapping'/connections by the Indonesian labourer might be the main culprit with caused the DB to be overload. In fact, the electrical system is not properly grounded. To avoid futher damage, i had to stop all demolition works of main site office & divert it for major rewiring works for the quarters & mini site office. Had to put my hand dirty, educate & ensure that the worker on proper wiring job. Personally, i don't have any background of electrical works before. Big thank you to my site manager (Mr Beh) & electrical sub-con, who without fail guiding & pass down knowledge till i 'graduate' in electrical.

Pulling the plug

7 years of service, finally my main site office declared 'off-commision' by terminating the telecomunication & electrical service It will be replace with 'mini' office nearby for maintainance & record keeping. It is time for demolition work!!

Being waiting for you, Mr TNB

After about a year of delay & redtape from the client, finally TNB contractor manage to come & start the main AC cable laying work for my Blk D (PPR Seri Semarak). Hopefully my client can solve up issues between PUAS regarding PRV enclosure installation.

Insight - Personal Track Safety Certification course.

KTMB Training Center (near KTM commuter Sentul) is located at the middle of YTL's Sentul Raya project. Glad to see the natural greeneries are preserved by the developer.






Some of the undisturbed natural habitat in Sentul Park. A perfect blend between nature & modernization.



The 2 day course are consist of classroom lectures,on-site visit & 30 questionnaire examination. As the name suggest, this course it all about Personal Safety while working on railway tracks. Do note that without KTMB 038 certificate, nobody is allow to work at railway tracks.This is crucial as there is a lot of incident that took life away very easy.

1st day is all bout safety theory, fundamental of railway system in Malaysia. Class supposed to start at 8.45am, but as per Malaysian Time Policy (some people are simply insensitive about being punctual!!), we only managed to begin class at 9.30am. Our facilitator/lecturer, Mr Kalaivanan, able to conduct the class in trilingual at 30 people class. Basically, the lecture is fun & informative.

Meet-up with the Station Master

2nd day - Railway station & operational field trip. Participants were given the chance to go 'behind the scene' of daily commuter railway services. Apart from that, practical training on 'real site' are also conducted to 'refresh' our tired mind from yesterday's long lecture hehe. After the site-seeing & further tutorials, the 30 question exam took place. It is very easy & guaranteed 100% passing marks.

Remember, don't play a fool during work ya!

Remember, Safety first. Cheers

The KTMB 038 Certificate

Yahoo!!...I'm gonna be attending "Personal Track Safety Course - Certificate KTMB 038" from 9-10 Nov 2006 (tomorrow). A big gratitude to my Project Coordinator who recommending me to take up this course together with him & 2 others from the company. Totally sponsored (total cost will be RM250 per person), hope that my brain is not rusty & able to catch up the the 'lectures'.