ကြ်န္ေတာ္ သည္ ကိုယ္တို္င္ကိုယ္က် နားလည္ထားေသာ အေၾကာင္းအရာျဖစ္လင့္ကစ သူတပါးအားမွားယြင္းစြာ ေျပာျပတတ္သူသာျဖစ္သည္။
ပထမ Semester စာေမးပြဲၾကီးနီး လာ၍ စာဖတ္ျခင္း/တြက္ျခင္းမ်ားႏွင့္ အလုပ္ရွုပ္ေနခဲ့ေသာ ကြ်န္ေတာ္္သည္ ၀င္လာေသာ SMS ၏ အသံေၾကာင့္ Hand phone စီသို႔ အာရံု ေရာက္သြား သည္။
Singapore သိုေရာက္ျပီး HP ကိုင္စတြင္ လြယ္ကူ အဆင္ေျပျခင္းေၾကာင့္ HP ၏ အက်ဳိးမ်ားကိုသာေတြ႕ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း အခ်ိန္ ၾကာလာသည္ႏွင့္ အမွ် အက်ိဳးမ်ားသာမကပဲ အျပစ္အျဖစ္ ရွဳ႕ျမင္နိဳင္ေသာ အေႏွာင့္ အယွက္မ်ားပါ HP ကသယ္ေဆာင္လာခဲ့သည္။
Seminar သို႕မဟုတ္ Lecture ခန္းဝင္လွ်င္ ဒုတိယ သိုမဟုတ္ တတိယ တန္း အလယ္တြင္ ထိုင္တတ္ေသာ ကြ်န္ေတာ္သည္ ၎အခန္းမ်ားအတြင္းရွိစဥ္ ဖုန္းေခၚခံရလွ်င္ အသံပိတ္ထားသည့္တိုင္ ျပန္ေျဖဖို႕ အျမဲအခက္ေတြ႕ ရသည္။ Lecture ႏွင့္ Seminar မ်ားသည္ English လိုသာေပးျခင္းျဖစ္ သည့္ အတြက္ ကြ်န္ေတာ့အဖို႕ ဘာသာ စကားတခုအေပၚတက္၍ အတတ္ပညာတခုလွမ္းယူေနသည္ႏွင့္သာတူသည္။ ထိုေၾကာင့္ ကြ်န္ေတာ့္္အာရံစူးစိုက္မွဳကို အေႏွာင္အယွက္ျဖစ္ေစေသာ အရာမွန္သမွ်အေပၚတြင္ ကြ်န္္ေတာ္စိတ္ရွည္ေလ့မရွိေပ။ ထို႕ထက္ပို ဆိုးသည္မွာ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ဒီ Course ကို တႏွစ္ အတြင္းပီးမွရမည္။ ကာလထပ္ဆန္႕ရန္ မျဖစ္နိဳင္ေပ။ အခ်ိန္ထပ္ဆန္႕ရန္ (ဝါ) Semester တခုထပ္တိုးရန္ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ တြင္ပိုက္ဆံ အလံုအေလာက္မရွိပါ။ ကံကိုယံု ၍ လစာေကာင္းေသာ Part Time အလုပ္ ရလိမ့္မည္ဟုလည္း မစြန္႕စားရဲပါ…
ထိုိထုိေသာအေၾကာင္းမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ကြ်န္ေတာ္သိပါသည္ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ခပ္ဆတ္ဆတ္ ဖုန္းေျဖခဲ့မိေသာ ဆက္ဆံခဲ့မိေသာ သူငယ္ခ်င္းမ်ားစြာ ရွိပါသည္။ ထိုသို႕ေသာ အျဖစ္ အပ်က္မ်ားသည္ ကြ်န္ဘက္မွၾကည့္လွ်င္ လက္ဖဝါး ထိုသူတို႕ဘက္မွၾကည့္လွ်င္ လက္ဖမို႕ ကဲ့သိုေသာျဖစ္ရပ္မွ်သာျဖစ္၍ ထိုသူတိုကို တန္းဖိုးထားသည့္တိုင္ အေထြအထူး အျဖစ္ဘယ္တုန္းကမွ် လိုက္လံမရွင္းျပျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါ…
ဒုတိယ အၾကိမ္ဝင္လာေသာ SMS အသံက ကြ်န္ေတာ့္ အေတြးစ ကိုျပတ္ေတာက္သြားေစသည္။ ဘယ္သူ႕ဆီကျဖစ္လိမ့္ မလဲ စဥ္းစားရင္း ကြ်န္ေတာ္ HP ကိုေကာက္ယူဖတ္လိုက္သည္… ကြ်န္ေတာ့္ အမ ဆီမွ ျဖစ္သည္။ ကြ်န္္ေတာ့္အား ဝမ္းသာၾကည္ ႏွူးေစေသာ SMS ျဖစ္သလို ယၡဳတိုင္ ေတြးမိတိုင္း ဝမ္းေျမာက္ေစခဲ့ေသာ SMS လည္းျဖစ္သည္။ SMS သည္တိုတို ႏွင့္ ရွင္းရွင္း မွ်သာျဖစ္၍ “ခေလးေလးေရ ငါလခဝင္လာျပီ နင္ ဘာယူမလဲ” ဟူ၍ျဖစ္သည္။
ကြ်န္ေတာ့္အမ သည္ ယၡဳ အသက္အရြယ္ေရာက္သည့္တိုင္ ကြ်န္ေတာ့္အား “ခေလးေလး” ဟူ၍သာ ေခၚေလ့ရွိပါသည္။ ၎ SMS သည္ တျခားသူမ်ား အတြက္သာမာန္ SMS မွ်သာျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း စာသင္ၾကားရန္ ေငြေၾကးအတြက္ အျမဲပူပင္ေနရေသာ ကြ်န္္ေတာ့္ အတြက္ ခြန္အားျဖစ္္ေစသကဲ့သို႕ ပထမဆံုးရေသာ လခအတြက္ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္မွဳကို ကြ်န္ေတာ့အားမွ်ေဝေပးခဲ့ေသာ အမ၏ ေမတၱာ အတြက္လည္းေက်းဇူးတင္ မဆုံးေအာင္ျဖစ္ရသည္။
သိုေပမဲ့ ကၽႊန္ေတာ္ ကို ကြ်န္္ေတာ္ျပန္ေမးမိသည္ ကြ်န္ေတာ္သူ႕ကို စိတ္ခ်မ္းသာေစခဲ့ရဲ႕လား။ ျပန္ေျဖသည့္ SMS က အစ ကိုးလိုး ကန္လန္႕ျဖစ္ေအာင္ ျပန္ေျဖခဲ့ မိသည္။ “Mercedes လိုခ်င္သည္” ဟူ၍…
ကြ်န္ေတာ္သူ႕ကို ေပးခ်င္ခဲ့ေသာ Message သည္ “ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႕ၾကိဳးစားရဦး မည္၊ အလြယ္တကူသံုး၍မရေသး၊ အေကာင္းဆံုး ဆိုတာကို လူတိုင္း သံုးခ်င္၍ ယၡဳ ေလာေလာဆယ္ သံုး၍မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေသး… “ စသည္ျဖင့္ျဖစ္သည္။ သူနားလည္ သြားသည္ က သူ႕ ကို အရြဲ႕တိုက္သည္ ဂြတိုက္ သည္ ယၡဳလစာႏွင့္ မဝယ္ႏုိင္ မွန္းသိလွ်က္ႏွင့္ သက္သက္ ႏွိပ္ ကြပ္သည္ဟု ျမင္သြားသည္…
ျဖတ္သန္းခဲ့ျပီးေသာ ၂၈ ႏွစ္တြင္ ကၽႊန္ေတာ္သည္ သူတပါး ဘာလိုအပ္သည္ ဘာလိုခ်င္သည္ ကို ဘယ္ေသာအခါမွ မစဥ္းစားမိပဲ ကြ်န္္ေတာ္ေပးခ်င္ေသာအရာမ်ားကို စဥ္းစား၍ေပးခဲ့သလို ကြ်န္္ေတာ္ေပးခဲ့ေသာ အရာမ်ားသည္ လည္း ထိုသူတို႕၏ လက္ထဲတြင္ တန္ဖိုးမဲ့စြာ ကြယ္ေျပာက္ သြားျမဲသာျဖစ္သည္။ ကြ်န္္ေတာ္ ၏ တင္ျပပံုမွားယြင္းျခင္းေၾကာင္ ကြ်န္္ေတာ္၏ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ကို အမွားမ်ား ထပ္မလုပ္မိရန္သာ ဆုေတာင္းေနမိ ပါေတာ့သည္။
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Procurement Phase
Today, I intend to post about procurement phase which was one of my responsibilities when I was in ROTARY. When client approved drawings and design calculations, I had to start quantity take off. After that, I had to check the BOQ which was provided by Engineering Department by comparing with my quantity takeoff. Once I found out any discrepancy, I had to discuss with Engineering Dep and had to make amendment accordingly. After I had settled all qty issues, I needed to call quotation for those items I had taken off from vendors or suppliers. Rotary's policy was that we had to get at least three quotations from vendors. On top of that, client approved vendors are also needed to be aware. At that stage, one of assistance engineers, Ms Jaslyn, helped me to find out vendors. Once I'd got quotations, I'd to prepare evaluation form and recommend a qualify vendor to award. After Alex Ong approved and signed for recommended vendor, I asked for the signature of MD, Joseph Khow. As soon as JK approved my evaluation, Ms Jasyln cut PO and fax to vendors. After AE had fax PO (Purchasing Order) to vendor, I called vendors for their delivery schedule. At the same time, I had liaised with logistic coordinator since some vendor might not deliver to us and we had to collect ourselves (that issue had to be cleared at the quotation stage). What I needed to manage at that place is to give necessary information to vendors like the places to deliver, contact persons, ph no, exact time and so ford... Sometimes, I even needed to calculate to be safe for the capacity of trailer and weigh and size of load. At the same time, I had to arrange a QC to go and inspect at delivery place and asked them to report me whether delivered items were complied with our PO. QC was responsible person to sign on DO (Delivery Order) and needed to submit to me. If these delivered items were not complying with our specification, I had to ask vendors to replace coz vendors used to send disqualify items with higher prices. Delivery arrangement had to follow the mechanical process to be carried out upon receipt of ordered items.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
My Very First Working Experience
I believe that I need to record my first working experience so that I don't forget my very first working experience in Singapore and I think it also means sharing the working experience by doing so.
The name of the first company that I joined in Singapore is ROTARY IMC which is situated in Jurong Island, one of the islands of Singapore. ROTARY IMC is a one of the subsidiaries of ROTARY ENGINEERING LTD which is doing construction of Oil Tankage. My designation at that company was Project Engineer. During early days in ROTARY, I felt boring because my boss, Alex Ong, wanted me to read a lot of Standard and Specification (Spec) books. At that time, I thought that it was no point of reading these all standard books and would be known in due course. Later, I realised that these standards are very useful for dealing with clients or main contractors (Main Con) or sub-contractors (Sub Con). But it was too late when I realised that because there was no time to read again when I executed the project.
As a project engineer, I had to coordinate the whole project to be accomplished smoothly by making money. Roughly, phases of a project could be categorized as follow:
1) Design and Drawing Phase
2) Procurement
3) Fabrication
4) Erection and
5) Commissioning and Hand Over to Client.
1) Design and Drawing Phase
Before design and drawings of a project came out, we had to discuss with the client and main con so that we can set specific API standard (API 620 Or API 650) according to the client requirements because clients or main con got confuse even after the tender package had been issued. Only after the API standard had been set, the Engineering Department issued the drawings and design calculations. Once I received drawings and designs, I had to review quickly and had to submit on the same day. Among submitted drawings, some were approved on first submission and some were approved with comments. From those drawings which had been approved, I had to take off the quantity to start procurement. For those drawings which were approved with comments, I had to send back to Engineering Department for their rectification. Once I received revised drawing or design calculation, I had to review whether their amendments were according to client's comments or not. At the same time, I had to start the procurement for those items from the approved drawings.
The name of the first company that I joined in Singapore is ROTARY IMC which is situated in Jurong Island, one of the islands of Singapore. ROTARY IMC is a one of the subsidiaries of ROTARY ENGINEERING LTD which is doing construction of Oil Tankage. My designation at that company was Project Engineer. During early days in ROTARY, I felt boring because my boss, Alex Ong, wanted me to read a lot of Standard and Specification (Spec) books. At that time, I thought that it was no point of reading these all standard books and would be known in due course. Later, I realised that these standards are very useful for dealing with clients or main contractors (Main Con) or sub-contractors (Sub Con). But it was too late when I realised that because there was no time to read again when I executed the project.
As a project engineer, I had to coordinate the whole project to be accomplished smoothly by making money. Roughly, phases of a project could be categorized as follow:
1) Design and Drawing Phase
2) Procurement
3) Fabrication
4) Erection and
5) Commissioning and Hand Over to Client.
1) Design and Drawing Phase
Before design and drawings of a project came out, we had to discuss with the client and main con so that we can set specific API standard (API 620 Or API 650) according to the client requirements because clients or main con got confuse even after the tender package had been issued. Only after the API standard had been set, the Engineering Department issued the drawings and design calculations. Once I received drawings and designs, I had to review quickly and had to submit on the same day. Among submitted drawings, some were approved on first submission and some were approved with comments. From those drawings which had been approved, I had to take off the quantity to start procurement. For those drawings which were approved with comments, I had to send back to Engineering Department for their rectification. Once I received revised drawing or design calculation, I had to review whether their amendments were according to client's comments or not. At the same time, I had to start the procurement for those items from the approved drawings.
This photo was taken at Botanic Garden in Singapore. The guy sitting behind me is one of my classmates since I was studying in Uni. Almost all the places in that garden are very nice to take photo. I visited to that place by chance. Now, I am planning to go there again once I have time. But before that I need to manage to have a very good camera so that I can take whatever the photos as much as I can. After this post, I am going to send my very first working experience to this blog so that I don't forget my experience because of not doing anymore.
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