We do both, oil rig also considered as oil and gas, chemical plant aka shell refinery also considered OnG. Anything, even MRT structure, as long made of metal can test it, usually x-ray inspection.

I forgot which company, if i not mistaken with one of the oil and gas company since one of their plants going to be shutdown in phases.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Sep 9 2009, 12:59 PM

Our clients also inlcude keppel shipyard as well as sembawang shipyard since we do UTM measurements on ship hulls. So that covers the marine aspect. UTM can be done on anything made of suitable metal which can be calibrated to our instruments, thats if you have the proper reference block.

We dont do ship conversion, thats more like keppel tuas and keppel fels where they do FPSO conversion, but to be frank, they do conversion on some ships which are in quite bad condition as it is plus if it may gone through a couple of special surveys.

Literally have to strip the ship to bare metal shell to do a "proper" job. But if its just adequate for their requirements, then they just do it. I pity the labourers who have to gut the ship out first since its incredibly dirty, after say more then 10-20 years in operation. At least its better then sending it to india for scrap iron i suppose.

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1000SGD just for a place to stay? Then i would suggest a condo.

How many of u guys are approached by strangers asking for money since they have one or more reasons such as (This isnt for some sort of charity unless its "personal" charity)

a) I need some spare change to board bus
b) I need some money for medical bla bla bla
c) I lost my wallet and handphone and need to get back to house, can spare me money coz urgent?

Donno why but i always kena approach by these ppl, after learning a painful lesson, i have stopped being charitable.

Every god damn place from jurong to chinatown to toa payoh to yishun.

And this doesnt cover the ppl who always try to solicit for donations.

Next time one of these ppl wants money from me, i will just say "i dont want to give to the likes of you". Why dont you try the woman with the LV bag.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Sep 13 2009, 05:22 PM

luckily the china ppl ask me direction is just for direction. unfortunately most of the time, the place they asking for, i too am just passing around the area, so of course of no help to them.

Losing a dollar is nothing compared to losing 100 dollar out of pity ( and stupidity on the fella you tried to help out). making that an expensive lesson to learn. Some ppl even have the balls to say that they will pay back, dont worry, i am singaporean BS.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Sep 13 2009, 05:46 PM

Well i do know for one thing, chinas shipyard, mainly on ship repairs, conversions and building of jack up rigs in the near future will be shot down. Currently i am attached to 2 ships from different owners who had some initial conversion modules done at china and the remaining to be done in singapore.

The china shipyards **** up big time, their work ethics, QA/QC department must have been sleeping since once we started to do initial survey on the ships for the final stage of conversion of the ship, it was found that the initial repairs as well as preliminary conversions were so badly done that the singapore side has to go back to square one and do a proper job since the china ppl couldnt do squat.
All becoz of trying to save money doing the work at china.

Now the ship owners gotta poney up more cash and time to do it proper here. As long as china ppl have the "ali baba" attitude which inlcudes their food products, it maybe cheap but be warn since their quality is not just questionable, it downright rotten.

Even when they hire some of their china welders to do repairs, sure not up to spec and i have to ask them to redo everything again since its not per acceptance criteria, and they lament in china they never got probs, no wonder their buildings fall on top of their heads.

I dont have high hopes they will change their "close one eye" syndrome anytime soon.

Even contractors in china working on behalf of their company from singapore or even the US who had to employ china ppl in shipyards and some petrochemical plants also lament this problem. But since their in china, they just keep their mouths shut until they get out of china, then when beer flows, the stories flow of the horror stories of the haphazard work these ppl follow.

"Hey this pipeline got severe cracks plus your not suppose to push the BAR that high."

Chinaman response "Never mind, nearly all of the pipelines are these way and i;ve had got a problem. Why you complain so much?" They obviously havent even heard of risk management.

The one thing i can think of which they are reasonably good is their implementation of the "Great Fire Wall of china".

This post has been edited by crapp0: Sep 15 2009, 09:28 PM

Its just a body. Unless you care about the symbol which is attached to a dead man. Like saying you dont want hitlers corpse to be in germany.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Sep 18 2009, 06:05 PM

They throttle, just like malaysia. On another note, it must really screw up ones self esteem if their mother calls their son a selfish stupid idiot. Thank god i dont come from a broken family.

Got minor tremor? i didnt feel anything at all.

Does anybody know whats the going rate for studio apartments rental wise? I was reading the sunday newspapers and they mentioned units such as those which are designed similar to those in america like in new york or san francisco.

They even have the layout of the studio apartment. reminds me of those small rooms in japan for young adults.

That is quite common practice in singapore. Its like an open secret, ppl know about it but dont take any action on it to save guard their livelihood. If you do report to the authorities, then most likely the management would find some kind of excuse to kick you out or make your job so unbearable that you will quit on your own.

Either way, you are screwed and you cant expect the sing gov to help you out, so by reporting this to mom you are essential taking a bullet for yourself as well as your employer. And if you do this just after you resign, you will be viewed as a fella who like to "sabo" ppls corrupt business.

Blunt and rude, both a blessing and curse.

True, coz of what type of permit you cant get access or have to pay a premium for certain things like mobile phones or internet services. If you get EP, then no problems at all, even better if PR, but quite a few ppl are on WP.

Even my bros GF who has a degree from UK kena stuck with WP.

Anybody here have problems with landlord family members whom your staying with. Not necessary the landlord such as lets say your a girl and your landlord is has a younger son whom you suspect of taking your underwear from time 2 time or something which annoys you?

Its an example really. Plus isnt gutteruncensored on and off again?

I do know off a girl whome she suspects her landlord or one of the family members from going into her room once in a blue moon but she cant just outright accuse her landlord since she doesnt have proof and wont spend the money on getting a remote camera just to see who it is, if it is anybody.

I on the other hand have to put up with my landlords basturd child.

Actually both the mom (divorcee) and son are at fault coz the son who is in sec 1 (13years old if i am correct) still doesnt want 2 flush his pee or poop, the reason why is coz his mom does it for him so he has been brought up till now with his mom flushing the toilet for him. And his mom actually came and told me not to worry since if she is around, she will flush on her sons behalf. The reason why the mom does it for her son since she give up trying to teach him to flush the toilet after himself.

Once i heard that, i knew her son gone case oledi.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Oct 29 2009, 07:42 PM

If s-pass is low class, then what about WP?

I know a few singaporeans who are paid much less then an s-pass. So are they considered lower then a s-pass low class fella?

True, agent is like the introduction. If agent can get money like that, then everyone would want 2 become agent coz easy money.

Anybody have recommendations on which shop have good prices for mobile phones? I dont want underwater one or have to sign a line with one of the telcos since its for my dad.

He's looking into the samsung omnia 2.

I read on mobilesquare.com that its only $698. Is that a fair price?

Just got back from the microsoft seminar at suntec, hopefully can win the prizes like smartphones, an xbox 360 elite set or the lenovo s10-2. luckily i won a webcam, too bad they ran out on free windows 7 ultimate gift pack.

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Added on November 19, 2009, 7:48 pmI speak malaysian english and quite alot of ppl dont know where i from since its different from singapore english.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Nov 19 2009, 07:48 PM