After paying our pound of flesh, we expected a vendor to send us a software lease license post haste. After waiting for a few days, we asked the vendor why the license hadn’t shown up yet.
Their response? Their server room was flooded, so they weren’t able to pull up their records and send us our purchase.
For want of a drain hole, a week’s worth of time was lost.
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My Technical Division, Chemical Engineering was awarded the most improved TD for the year 2009. I must confess, I had nothing to do with it, but will that stop me from basking in the same limelight? Nooo…..
And I’ll share the certificate and appreciation dinner as well.
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Disclaimer: Again, this is not for a Synergy opening. An associate of mine is looking for
a business development manager with a good network in the oil & gas industry. The candidate should be KL based with good/proven contacts, an honest, independent & self motivated person.
I’m not sure how one can evaluate ‘good/proven contacts,’ but fortunately I’m not doing the hiring.
Send your resume to fpso[att]igl.com.my. Any lousy examples of applications will be posted for all to mock.
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Disclaimer: the job is NOT with Synergy.
A friend of mine is looking for a Mechanical Engineer. The permanent job will be with a multi-national production sharing contractor. Requirements: 10 years experience, no PE status necessary (grumble, grumble). I will vet the CVs before passing them on.
Send your CVs and bribes to fpso[attt]igl.com.my. Sorry, I meant send your CVs to the email address, send your gifts and trinkets to the Paypal button on the right.
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As an engineer, I’ll start with my definition: an activity whereby a party seems to legitimately seek offers to do or perform an act which the party offering. The party is expected to select a winning offer based on unbiased technical or commercial evaluations.
However, the activity is a sham, as the winning party has been pre-selected, and exercise has been rigged such that the wanted party is selected.
How would one go about maneuvering the tender to award the selected party?
However, it may be difficult to distinguish whether it is a tailored tender exercise or an inexperienced, unqualified scapegoat was assigned to prepare the tender package.
Share your experiences, here or on wikileaks.
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The poster says it all.
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Food recommendation? Saturday’s lunch was provided by the IEM’s AGM, and the annual dinner was held at the Sime Darby Convention Centre.
As for a book recommendation, how about something from Terry Pratchett? I think I own all the Discworld novels, as they appeal to my sense of humour. Go pick up the latest book, Unseen Academicals (Discworld)
, though I think Sir Pratchett’s writing is tending towards dark humour. His earlier writings are the literal equivalent of Black Adder
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Here’s a sign that PETRONAS is definite that there will not be enough local gas production offshore Peninsular Malaysia. And hopefully, our solution is to get gas from East Malaysia. But is it still uneconomical to pipe the gas, rather than convert to LNG, stuff into carriers and ship to the Peninsular?
Or, is this a ploy to increase MISC’s worth? Supply your comments here.
Taken from The Star, dateline 2010-04-12:
AS part of an effort to address the rising demand for gas amid a diminishing natural gas supply in Peninsular Malaysia, it has been revealed that a new LNG (liquefied natural gas) regassification plant will soon be built.
Analysts who attended a recent briefing session with PETRONAS Gas Bhd learnt of the plan from its managing director, Samsuddin Miskon.
No formal announcement about the plan has been made yet by parent company Petroliam Nasional Bhd (PETRONAS), but it is understood that the main reason for the regassification plant is to ensure the continuity of gas supply in the peninsula.
How does that equation come about?
Well, the regassification plant will enable PETRONAS Gas to take in more gas supply from third parties as the capacity to convert liquefied gas into gas for end- users will be enhanced.
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You can subscribe to an online version of the paper at the Bluehyppo site, follow links to e-browse.
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This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be organising a visit to SGL Carbon on April 24th, 2010.
SGL Group – THE CARBON COMPANY – is the largest producer of carbon and graphite products worldwide. The business portfolio of SGL Group consists of three Business Areas which are Performance Products (BA PP), Graphite Materials & Systems (BA GMS) and Carbon Fiber and Composite (BA CFC) respectively
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The purpose of this visit is to have an overview of the integrated production processes for graphite electrode and graphitized cathode and the high level of engineering and technology employed in the project which is currently in its Phase 2.
Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here.
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The AGM will be held at 3rd Floor, Tan Sri Prof Chin Fung Kee Auditorium, Wisma IEM, 21 Jalan Selangor, Petaling Jaya.
It will be held at 9am on Saturday, 17th April 2010.
Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here. It’s the building identified as ‘Puteri Nursing College.’
IEM 51st AGM
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