The Twentieth Day

Several weeks before I entered as an intern, The Team has floated a tender on PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) which includes safety shoes, helmet, gloves, and safety vests and quite a number of companies showed their interest. Today, they held a meeting to choose which one of the participating companies will be given the tender and I was fortunate to be there to observe the meeting.

The Team compared the items offered by the companies with the specifications and requirements stated in the tender. From there, the companies are shortlisted and will be brought to the higher-ups for further actions. The summary? With the current specifications, no companies are able to provide a size 13 safety shoes, as one of The Team is a proud wearer of that size. I bet you never knew anyone with that shoe size, hoho.

After the afternoon prayer, I went for another cable testing in Cyberjaya. The PE (Pencawang Elektrik), where the cable is going to be tested is located just across S*kolah S*ri P*teri but unfortunately, the students suddenly went missing, heh. Things went as usual, lots of waiting involved but I am starting to get the hang of it. Waiting is part of the job.

The Visit #3

Flagship Village is like the coolest village name among the villages that I knew. Agreed? Anyway, today's entry marked the end of the first month of my internship. 2 months to go and yet I still haven't learned much from them. Ich muss richtig Gas geben..

The Nineteenth Day

Please disregard my previous post under the same title. My extreme laziness suddenly kicks in and made me unable to make a proper post. This will happen a lot more in the future so get used to it, heh.

The logbook that is required to record the data for the cable testing is out of pages and new logbooks need to be made so I went with one of the technician to the stationary room located in the managing department. It is just a small room but has enough equipments and stationeries to fulfill office related tasks.

There is a huge photocopy machine, which always have people using it, a binding machine, a rack of colourful papers, binding combs of different sizes, and other things that I am unfamiliar with. For the first time in my life, I finally got to use a photocopy machine and a binding machine. How sad. I know, *sniff*. We went back to The Lab with 3 new sets of freshly made logbooks.

The binding machine, and other stuffs

The Eighteenth Day

The Team of cable diagnostics, besides doing researches on issues regarding cables, also provide cable testing services to clients all over the country. The partial discharge test which I've mentioned recently is also included.

This tests are complying to the maintenance strategy known as Condition Based Maintenance (CBM). Heard of prevention is better than cure? It works just like that. According to the test results, the cables which have the potential to fail will be replaced immediately or will be tested again in the near future. Even though this requires more time and effort, it has been proven that this strategy is more economical.

At the moment, I'm learning how to translate the raw data acquired from the tests to informations that will tell about the condition of the cable. I might save you from the upcoming blackouts, who knows heh. Let see what The Intern is up to..

Pekerja Terbaik April 2010

You wish!

The Seventeenth Day

The Lab is not as lively as usual since most of the members were out due to work related matters. Initially, I was planning to loaf around since there is no one to supervise me but hey, everyone else is working hard so I should too.

Wish granted. I was occupied for the whole day, thanks to The Team. The first half is spent by keying in cable test results into the company's operation database and the other half is by following The Team to do Partial Discharge test on 2 cables in Cyberjaya. Yeah, the test is similar to this, but this time I got to use the testing equipments by myself.

As an engineer, it's not just about knowing how to do the procedures, you also have to know why the procedures are done that way. That was what I did, asking questions after questions. It's a good thing that The Team is being really helpful. Remind me to bring some pulut kuning next time, heh.

The Visit #2

Something to ponder on: Studying is about gaining knowledge and work is about gaining wealth. Knowledge will always be helpful and work should be something that you enjoy doing, doesn't need to be related on what you have studied.

End of post.

The Sixteenth Day

The Monday Buzz is here again. I would like to point out something interesting, for me at least, that happened in the hall this morning. In the assembly, selected staffs will come out on the stage and share anything that they want, from "cupcake baking" to "how to stop smoking". Anything. This time, it is about effective breastfeeding. I don't think there is anything wrong with that but the speaker is a guy and most of the audience are guys as well, maybe a more appropriate topic can be chosen instead. There are even actual pictures of the subject on the screen. Giggles can be heard everywhere.

Surprisingly, as soon as the slides ended, the speaker revealed that it is just the introduction of his talk. I didn't see that coming, I'm sure the others as well. No, you must be the only one. Shh.. don't ruin that part. Anyway, the talk is actually about leadership. As a leader, there will be a time that you need to talk to your followers about something uncomfortable, not only to yourself but your followers as well, but it has to be done either way. So, what do you do? You have to be well prepared, be comfortable with your subject, and deliver it in a way that it makes your audience comfortable as well. How? I leave that for you to think about, heh. The speaker showed a very good example on that thus giving me something to write about. Excellent mister!

The entrance to the hall

The Fifteenth Day

At the moment, I was assigned to complete a technical report on Pilot Cable fault location. All the data required is already there so what I need to do is to arrange the data nicely and add nice sentences where necessary, heh.

Pilot cable is a communication cable, put in parallel with voltage cable which will operate relays at both end when the voltage cable is faulty to prevent overcurrent. More on this later. The Cable Unit is researching for the correct methods in locating and repairing faults in pilot cable, which will be then used by TNB. The pilot cable that we have in The Lab:

The Big Picture

The cables inside, refer to the red arrow above

The Fourteenth Day

Hmm no, this is not the continuation from yesterday. That has to wait, heh. I actually want to write about pilot cables but since I don't have any self taken pictures of the subject, this has to wait as well. So what now? Hold on, let me check my pictures folder. Okay here:

The other path to The Lab

Yup, this is the hallway to the lab from the other end. There's is something interesting on my right where I was standing to take this photo and guess what, that's got to wait as well! Haha. Until then, later! *runs* What! that is all?