Thursday, August 31, 2006

049 : That's HOT ???

The passages below are written by me and checked and QC by a close friend of mine for the sake of my school's (SP) creative wrting competition. Since the dateline is over, and i forgot to submit, and due to my dying desire to do anything constructive at all, i decided to finish this up and post it here =)



THE RED ZONE.


How's it going?”


“Seems to be running at full power, Reactor 1 thru 3 are displaying optimal signals. Greens lights all the way.”


Good. Now, how about a warm coffee break? Temperature's way down below the radio forecast, and its gone beyond my comfort.”


“Pass...There was a telegram from the eastern borders, i need to go.” With that, the tall Ukraine born man trudge down the stairs and headed straight to his office in hurried steps, for he knew from his many years in working in a power plant, telegrams meant bad news.


Night was approaching, the sun had begun its descend into the endless horizon with the timber wolves' screeching howls marking the start of their reign in the blistering cold darkness. By chance, the loud hailer started to blast its relentless announcement signal breaking the deafening sounds of nature's fury.


The blast stopped, and hints of shuffling could be heard from the system. After a split moment of silence, someone finally spoke.


“Attention all night shift personnel, this us your chief engineer Anatoly Dyatlov speaking. We are going to start the reactors running now as there is a power shortage countrywide by 12%. Due to the cold weather, one of the coal power plants had gone off line.”


There was a short pause.

He then continued in his heavy Russian accent.


“And due to the sudden urgency of this matter, the turbine spin up test shall be skipped. All personnels are to return to their positions and let's start 1 and 2 running first. That is all.” With an abrupt cough, he deactivated the mic and, all was silence.


Everything seemed to be running well even though the safety tests were skipped. Following standard protocol, the heavily equipped engineers proceeded to increase reactor 4's output at a steady pace.


A young engineer dressed in red was observing the output meter intensively, small beads of sweat could be seen to form on his forehead. He was obviously nerve racked and very much uneasy about increasing the output beyond normality. Such procedures were rare, even to his senior engineers above him.


“5%...6%...7%...higher...8%... approaching caution area at... 9%.”


The young engineer look about his 50 panel control. Its was all too much for him, his previous job at a coal power plant station was 3 folds simpler than this.



A relatively small sized blinking meter had caught his sudden attention.


“I am seeing extreme temperatures at reacto...”


Before he could even finish his words, the SCRAM alarm had been activated, signaling the immediate evacuation of the building.


Alas it was too late.


The amazingly loud alert wail had suddenly been overwhelmed by yet another booming explosion coming from the cooling department block. Several more blasts continued the trend sending pulses of shock through earth beneath the wrecking plant. Grassed areas nearby cracked open reluctantly from the powerful resonance ejecting all loose soil from its gigantic womb.


Concurrently, a single huge roar of flames and steam combined to form a brilliant song of transition to the finale. Titanic sized yellow clouds suddenly occupied the empty spaces in the sky, painting it a beautiful sunset hue.


As if like a wizard's touch of magic, a blinding yet warm flash of white light beamed across the disaster struck zone...


By the amount of radioactive uranium there was, the catastrophe stricken place should already been leveled to ground zero, but whatever helped to reduced the amount of damage done ?


Years later, although the place had been totally evacuated and had been absolutely devoid of life, curious and daring explorers can still be seen searching through the wreckage, as the thought of finding the answer to the mystery of the blinding light had constantly fueled their enthusiasm.


Tuesday, August 29, 2006

048 : DAY OFF

Yes, some might think that its no big deal, and its probably just another day of fun and personal time. After working for 5 grueling (at least to me) days, its finally my off day ! wednesday ! still i need to go back to causeway pt there cos my music school is there..... nevermind... make full use of my concession pass.

Its tough. No one said it was easy. You get angry and educated customers coming to you and affing you upside down. You cannot afford to make mistakes, especially crucial ones. Or else, you pay. Singapore sia. Can't complain much about that. So next time, better be careful when you book in batteries for nokia.

Sometimes, its not the customers that tire you out. Its the stress, and sometimes, the bore. Like today, we get less customers. We get more time to chit chat and talk cock lar... Trainees like me get left out in the talks.

I felt that i learnt a lot. I've seen a lot of things thus far, drama, fights, table banging and mindless swearing and cursing. Its all in a day's fun. The people are nice, but not as nice as my schoolmates =X

Right now, its rest ! Back to golf !

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

047 : More Updates !

Yeah ! The lady just called about my interview and i got it! Now i am a customer care officer at NOKIA !!! Will be working at causeway point nokia from 11-8pm everyday. So feel free to drop by if you are nearby and say hi =)

Its a pretty good job i think. Pay's pretty ok too. And its something i always wanted, one to occupy my mind and 2 to keep me busy and thinking. The dumb thing is, being a nokia fan for more than 4 yrs, and with the result of the kayaking incident, i am using my uncle's w800i until i save enough to get a new phone. since my workplace is another mobile phone company, i cannot use my phone there.... kinda dumb, so i am gonna use back my old nokia 3230 to show off.. haha

and due to the after effects of the incidents that happened to me, i got a lot of "ling gan" to compose some songs.... i recently helped ocean butt. to do mix their fei chang ge shou's minus one tracks. its really fun and challenging at the same time. but i got the job done still.... oh well.... time to go for my guitar class, at causeway point....

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

046 : Mooncakes !


Looks sorta corny i know... but hey, its something done in photoshop within 2 hrs !! I love mooncakes !

Friday, August 18, 2006

045 : Last submission

So, HTA came to an abrubt end, and thats it for the final submission for the semester. Bowling was fun with so many people around. We got like 12 of us booking the entire bowling alley lar. So fun. From now on i will have lots of time to do funny stuff le, especially learning my autocad and upgrade myself. i would most probably work in the holidays, as a certain distraction is gradually fading away... haiz.

sadly, tmr got CIP at CCK, and i just had to slip at the bowling alley and injure my knee. its damn swollen now, cant even walk up e stairs properly. tian ah.... went to senseh and did something abt it. hurt like hell when he twisted my leg and stuff, well, at least its less red now.

can't wait for the new sem to start ! i love to work.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

044 : I HATE THIS DUN DO THIS ~~~

oh man, i am so angry angry angry lar.... why must so many things happen now ~!!! ARGH HTA................. sian................. i very emotionally unstable now.... this sucks....... am i gonna become like him ? noo............ =(

i shall rmb this. i will and its right here on this blog, entry no. 44.

I SHALL RMB THIS. WATCH OUT. *INSERT EVIL LAUGH*

~sigh~

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

043 : It aint the same anymore....

some words of personal reflection for today's entry :

"it aint the same anymore, and i cant be bothered, nothing changes."

wow, shallow at first, but think, DEEP.


off to work.....

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