BOSET & Helicopter Underwater Escpae Training (HUET)

Finally, after three days of theories and practical classes, i am officially qualified for offshore mobilization. Upon completion of the 3-day course, they will issue a ID and a certificate as shown below:

The course is commonly known as B.O.S.E.T-R which stands for Basic offshore Safety and Emergency Training with Re-breather.

This kind of training demanded a medically-fit person in order to attend. There were story about an English man who boughta fake medical certificate, ended up unconcious during one of the session and eventually declared as "Da pao-ed by god".

So means, if you don't want to ended da pao-ed, better be honest and go to the approved panel medical center for check ups before enrolling with this training.

The 3-days course includes the following:

1. Re-breather (Breathing through scuba-diving alike equipment, difference is just that you are breathing your OWN air from your lung intead of oxygen tank)

2. Offshore Safety Induction

3. Sea Survival (Jumping from a platform and stay "survive" in the water)

4. Basic Fire Fighting & Self Rescue (Inc. Escaping yourself in a confined and dark space)

5.Boat Transfer & Swing Rope and Basic Life Support

6. Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET)

Among all of the above, the one training which i scared/enjoyed/pissed myself off is the training no.6, which is the HUET training.

It involved a few person sitting in the helicopter simulator submerged in the water, and twisted 180 degree before you can escaped through the small "window" aka emergency exit inside the water. (Try sitting in your washine machine, only without the detergent)

It is not easy as at this moment, where it involveslosing all of your sense of the orientation, unbuckled your safety belt, breaking out the window, before freeing yourself to the surface. (It was conducted in two different session, with and without breathing appratus).

Since i am not allowed to take photos (i don't have time anyway), i am posting a video which shows the HUET training conducted at the very same place of my training center, the CONSIST in Ampang. The simulator is exactly the same one that i am using.

During the simulation (without the breathing apparatus), i have one of those moment where i tried to escaped through the window, forgotten to unbuckled my safetybelt, which in turn caused half of my body out from the helicopter (still in water), and another half of my body in the helicopter.

At that moment, my instinct told me not to panic. So i stayed where i was, sticking out both of my hand, lifeless (like drowned), to signal the diver to come and rescue me. Things doesnt turn out so good when he himself have the difficulty to unbuckle the belt.

In my mind is shouting "you bloody well have a cutter with you now".

Luckily, after few more seconds which felt like forever, he finally done it and i made it out from the cockpit.

That was the time when i knew that god doesn't fell in love with me just yet.

Out of the five session involving the simulator, that is the only time i have faced the difficulty.

Thank god i managed to pass them all!

In fact, our group has done it faster compared to the two team before us!

Not too bad for a guy who only start swimming lesson at 14.

But the qualification will only last for three years and then i have to go back for a refresher course, so thank you to the CONSIST team (all of them are really cheerful and funny character)

for your patient in dealing with us for the past 3 days.

It is indeed a very exciting and wonderful experience which i would love to give it a try again in the future.

See you guys in 2013!

Medical Examination for Offshore Travelling

When i was told by my superior that i might need to travel oversea for a job, i was excited. It is for the fact that this time around, it is not one of the normal oversea travel i used to get ever since i started working.

I am going on board of a vessel in the middle of the ocean!

I was told that in order to get there, 3 modes of transportation will be needed.

1. By airplane
2. By car
3. By Helicopter~!

Yes, it will be the first time i will be travelling in a helicopter!

And for the fact that the place i will be visiting will be off-the-shore, i need to pass two exams:

1. Medical evaluation by qualified medical practitioner. (Appointed medical center only)
2. Passing the BOSET-R training (c/w HUET-Helicopter Underwater Escape Training)

Since tommorrow will be my last day on the (2) training, i will tell you about it in the next posting.

To be frank, i hate the idea of people "poking" something into my body. That is the main reason why everytime i stepped into the medical exams room, my face will turned pale.
(Yeah, WTH, i hate needles)

A lot of question got in to my mind "What if..what if.." at that time. To make my day even worse, the nurse got more nervous than me (Beginner level) that she had to poke both my hand to suck my blood as she couldnt find the right vein. (While i am closed to fainting).

When my friend told me how detailed the medical check up was, i thought it was a joke. But, i realize it immediately that it was so detailed that even my most "private place" was "checked if it was ok" by the male doctor.

Suddenly i felt so gay. Letting out my "bird" to a guy to let him "see" didnt really get on too well with me indeed.

Only at the end of the day i found out that the doctor has actually missed out (i am not sure whether this is mandatory, it was listed as one of the criteria on the medical report) one check, that is the ANAL & RECTUM~!!!

Thank god.

End of the day, i was declared:

FIT~!

Apart from some mild hearing lost with my left ear (I suspect it is the shit), everything is clear.

EVen my blood test results show normal reading apart from a little bit of cholestrol concern.

My X-RAY: According to doctor, VERY CLEAR AND FIT. VERY BEAUTIFUL SUMMORE!

(I wonder if this term will be allowed during his medical school day)

So, it means i am all clear for the BOSET (Basic Offshore Survival) training programme.

Pray to god, they will not called me and ask:

" Eh, Mr. Wong, we forget one more test la~!!!"

:)

Deputy CEO of F&C (KWSP) read my blog~!!!

With the emergence of Facebook, i admit nowadays i have so much lesser time checking my emails. People updated their daily activities via twitter, facebook, u name it.



Somehow, something's telling me to check my email while i was away in Phuket, Thailand. In the hotel that i stayed they provide us with free internet and wi-fi services, so why waste it?:)



Upon checking (and deleting) some of those junk mails in my inbox, i came across this email from a guy, someone i had never heard of. But the subject line has indeed caught my attention.



IT IS THE BL**DY DEPUTY CEO OF FINANCE & CUST. CARE OF KWSP~!!



For those of you who has never read my blog (Anyway i think i have less than 3 reader, namely my grandma, my 5-yr old cousin, and my dog), you can refer my post back on March entitled "KWSP Employee of the month".



The email read like this:



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Employee of the Month‏
From:
Hizwani b Hassan X004 - KHIDMAT (XXXXXX@epf.gov.my)
You may not know this sender.Mark as safeMark as junk
Sent:
Sunday, 28 Mar, 2010 1: 24 PM
To: hungyew@hotmail.com


Hi there Hung Yew!Hope you had a great weekend.My name is Hizwani. I am the person responsible for customer care in the EPF. I have just read your blog and I thought I would drop you a line. We are always interested in such feedback. I take it that you had a bad experience and I first have to apologise for that. It is not something I would want to happen.Before I go further, did you manage to do what you wanted? If not, is there anything I can assist you? I would like to be able to take this further by:



1. Coming to see you and get more detailed feedback. For instance, which branch did you have this bad experience in? I am guessing that it is either PJ, KL or Shah Alam.So, maybe we can catch-up? Then I have to ensure that not all our staff is like what you experienced.



2. Since you had a bad experience, the least I can do is to help you on your withdrawal. If you can give your ic number, tomorrow I can follow-up on your application.



Have a great weekend(what's left of it) and may you have a great scenery tomorrow at 3am as it should be cool one(it is raining as far as I know). Have an awesome week ahead.



############################I am emailing using my handheld mobile device whilst away from my computer.HIZWANI bin HassanDeputy CEOFinance and Customer CareThe Employees Provident Fund



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Check out the 2nd bolded sentence! He even read my bloody profile~!!

For a second i thought he is going to sue me with my blog posting!


As the blog who won the award of "The most unreadable blog of Asia Pacific", i think i have the very reason to be proud of!


This guy has really taken a big leap forward in the way to ensure his customer is provided with the best service available by KWSP.

To be honest, i am quite impressed.

And Mr Hizwani, in the case where you happened to drop by here the second time, i wan to say a big thank you to you and your team. During the second time around, your staff has really put up the smile on their face and show patience in telling me what i should do to get my savings back!

At least that shows that your team is not afraid of improvement within your organization~!! We believe this could forever be considered as the benchmark/yardstick/KPI for other government sector to follow and learn!

We shall always remember that one simple smile can always make a lot of difference to everyone around you.

Keep up the good work~!!

Gathering again...

KWSP Employee of the month

Upon completing both of my projects last month, i decided to take a day leave from work to go and visit KWSP (The Employee Provident Fund). This is due to the fact that (in case some of you didn't know about it), you can actually withdraw part of your retirement fund for purposes like, erm, education, buying a new house, stuffs like that.

This time around, i am not actually trying to show you the exact way to get the application done, as you can find those informations easily at your fingertips.

To be frank, i was surprised when i stepped into the KWSP building. In my mind, i would thought the office will looked something like this.

Fish Market.

How wrong i was. Apart from the fact that the office is super-clean, they have proper signs everywhere so that you won't get lost in the buildings. The line of 6 people infront of the receptionist was cleared within 3 minutes. Eveything seems to be so perfect.

When i got my number, i was kind of surprise.

I am holding "2117", while the number on the panel shows 2"2115" which means, officially, i only need to wait for another 2 people before reaching my turn. :)

While waiting, i have glanced around and found there is this one photo showing employee of the month. It is an indian lady on display, and i was like "wow". Should be working very hard to gain this recognition i think.

By the time i reach my turn, i was gobmacked, as the lady who were there waiting to serve me behind the counter is exactly the indian lady, the employee of the month.

I sat down and begin to retrieve the documents for her review.

This is what happened next:

1. She talked at the speed of 150miles per hour, which i could not understand a thing.

2. Keep on complaining that i did not check my document properly..

3. Her Face look as if someone has shoved a broomstick up her ars* for the whole day.

For a moment i felt like i have been interrogated by those officer from FBI.

Maybe she became "lan-c" after receiving the employee of the month award. I don't know.

So, if this is the employee of the month standard for KWSP, i could hardly imagine what others would be like.

Abang Najib, Idris Jala, please do something.

I talked like an Indian..

On our way back to office one fine afternoon after lunch, i asked one of my colleague.

"Eh, anyone know how much a Honda Accord cost?The old one ar.."

My friend: "Which one you are talking?There are many models out there wo"

"Neh..the one quite new but not that new one, a bit old one.."

My two friends just turned around and look at me (I am at the backseat) with a blanked look. Then, they said:

"Since when you started talk like an Indian Engineer dy?Wtf u mean by new one but not that new?"

I was speechless...

Working too much with those people has eventually cast a spell on me. Sh*t.

Another "untitled"

According to the law of universe, one day is equivalent to 24 hours.
For the past few days, i started to wonder if the earth has been rotating faster nowadays. Because..

1. I realized that nowadays i don't really have time to sh*t.
2. Just about when i started to shit, and indian called.
3. Just about when i started to work, the wristwatch shows me 5.30pm already.
4. After 5.30, some Kn*bhead will still call me for job-related questions.


Which, i took things in a more positive way.As it could be good as you don't suffer the "waiting-for-the-time-to-pass" kind of syndrome.

But i really hope the human mankind can have extra few hours in one day, not only for work, but also for things like this:

1. When a cute colleague walk by in front of your cubicle.
2. Listening to indian engineer talking to you, and pretend it is music for your ears. (Which i did a lot nowadays)
3. For day-dreaming on how to make excuses for not coming to work the next day.
(Nowadays, we can predict when we will need to take a medical leaves)

I guess my wish has yet to be granted by lord yet. As the current earthquake in Haiti is said to have cause the earth to have a shorter daytime.

Please allow me to drift off the topic, just why don't the earthquake just happen to bury all those Indian engineers?

I am not racist you know, but i have had enough from you for the past 15 months.
Even more so when you told me something which sounded like this:

"Whichever item we have closed the status, actually cannot be closed".

God bless you. You really know how to talk.