Was out at the site on Saturday morning and noticed one of my favourite things in the sky.

Perhaps its a good omen for what lies ahead.

Hope all my friends at SCS will be able to survive the ordeal they are having at the workplace. This beautiful rainbow is for them.

Never ever had to stand in the sun and perform such a boring task for a good 8 hours before. I am pretty sure that it will surely not to be my last for the coming months.

To be very frank, I think the pouring work is really hard work and there is no resting till the whole slab is done. And it didn’t help when the trucks took they own sweet time to come and there was many occasion where there was no concrete to pour at all.

It started at 10am in the morning when the concrete trucks started coming in. I was supervising the slump test and the performing of the cube test for the concrete coming in for pouring in the foundation slab as shown above.

Really had no experience with working with concrete, everything is a new experience for me. Guess the only way, is to learn everything that comes my way and try to figure out the best as I could. If in doubt, I have no problems asking people and searching for answers somehow.

The Concrete Slump Test is, in essence, a method of quality control. For a particular mix, the slump should be consistent. A change in slump height would demonstrate an undesired change in the ratio of the concrete ingredients; the proportions of the ingredients are then adjusted to keep a concrete batch consistent. This homogeneity improves the quality and structural integrity of the cured concrete.

Then also the cube test preparation. Picture showing worker preparing the test cube which will be cured for the appropriate time, and is then compressed between two parallel faces. The stress at failure is taken to be the compressive strength of the concrete.

Now I am going to find out more about testing of concrete and will be able to witness some tests coming up this week. Update all again.

I was walking on Penang island from the jetty to the Fort Cornwall when I observe this battle of the day.

Guess it’s all about team effort and it makes all the different.

Additional ant joining the battle to prevent the wasp from taking about the fish tail.

I didn’t wait to see the ending of this battle but I hope the ants are the winner. Never underestimate the power of a team and never be afraid to confront your enemy.

My first weekend here at Prai is coming to an end, looking forward to an exciting week ahead at work. Think it will be lots of interesting issues coming up. Come what may, I am ready and will be doing my best. But I do miss my friends and family, especially that someone special who is working on a Sunday.

Reported to work at Air Products on Monday. Had a really good rest the pervious week and recovering from the terrible cough that refuse to go away. Flew over to Penang the following day and was getting myself orientated around by my colleague. It was kind of confusing and overwhelming at first. But things started making sense after a while. Thanks goodness that my current colleague also my old colleague was very kind to bring me round and help me get stuff to make my stay more comfortable.

My new work desk

There were 2 days of public holiday here on Wednesday and Thursday. Therefore I was able to walk around a little and even went to Penang island via the ferry. Thou I met with a not nice incident at the overly crowded jetty terminal. But I had an personal invitation to visit the captain deck of the Penang ferry. The handsome uncles really made my day.

Currently I staying in a hotel and hopefully they will get my apartment ready soon. Anyway I am not too bothered with where I am staying as long as I am able to have Internet and a treadmill. Back on my marathon training at the gym in the hotel, I was able to enjoy a private gym on both occasions. Hey it quite cool.

Went for fish spa here in the Tesco mall, it cost RM 18 for 30 mins. The sensation was pretty peculiar and I kept taking my feet out from the water at the beginning. But I think I will be back for more fish spa.

My dearest friends, please come visit me in Penang, we can go fish spa together..