Monday, June 9, 2008

3-in-1 entry

woohhh..it has been ages since my last entry! and i thought i would have more time for blogging since there's no school! Well, the last few weeks has been super busy with me barely catching 6 hours of sleep a day. It seems that a healthy balance of work and play while one is "working" is rather hard to achieve. Work although ends at 6pm, but because it's at some ulu place at Changi Business Park, it takes me forever to reach home. Like 2 hours maybe...haha. then on occasional days, so as to have a decent bit of some life, i would arrange for dinners and such at City Hall..which will put me back at ard 9-10pm. then by the time i reach home....it'll be 11plus. And the new day is about 7hours away. crazy right. YES.

And to add to that "misery" i had a pageant during SDE annual D&D. Courtesy of course goes to my beloved SDE friends for their fevent voting. haha. and not forgetting Grace. She was my personal stylist aka date aka personal photographer aka No 1 supporter. haha. Hey, why did u think i won Best Dress couple? hahaha..she chose the shirt as well as the skinny jeans. As for the verrryyy "impromtu" performance, i have nth to say la, except that i was really singing my best. just that u guys cant hear me coz of the stupid mic which was working perfectly well just before we started. sigh manz. me and huiling practised quite hard for it. and of course, the music didnt played as planned. we had actually planned a dance for u guys right before the song ended, but becoz there wasnt music, i had make the music with the guitar, so since i cant strum and dance at the same time, viola! u get a half-baked perforemance! hehe...Anyway, the entire DnD was rather good albeit the less than sterling management of the actual event. :S Although personally, i think they should allow more time for the pple to have some chat time. after all, it's supposed to be a catch-up/network session right...

AND now! the reason why im blogging! i wanna show to all the photos i took today at the construction site that im stationed at now! woohoo...it's a sight to behold man. never before will u get this insight photos from an actual piling work! haha ok enjoy. All were taken in a span of a day! :) guess i was lucky to be able to see different stages of the piling work.

(1) Boring drill bit (2) Cleaning bucket, boring bucket and the drill bit (3) Boring the hole for the pile (4) Ultimate Load test for the test pile

Lifting and insertion of the steel casing for the bored pile. Can see the crane lifting the vibro-hammer also. Last picture shows the final position of the inserted steel casing with the vibrohamer on top. The green thing vibrate quite violently. Ground was shaking underneath me!

(top) Cast bored piles (btm) pilecap on the grp of piles with the starter bars for the column stump