Surat Khabar Lama

It was on Sunday morning a week ago. As usual I wake up in the early morning and plan to bring my family for Sunday's breakfast. While preparing, suddenly I'm hearing a loud speaker voice saying "Surat Khabar lama" "Old Newspaper" repeatedly. At that moment, it help me to recalled that my old newspapers in the store are ready to be recycle/sell. I stored the old newspapers in the store under the staircase. I asked my 2nd son to call the old newspaper guy. During that time I started to transfer the old newspapers from store room to front of my house for easy collection. While transfering the old newspapers which beome the last portion of the newspaper to be removed, at that time my safety moments doesn't work properly. I lifted with left hand in awkward position. Immediately after that I can feel sharp pain at my left waist. At that moment, i become static and cann't move properly. I have to call my kids to help transfering the last portion of the old newspapers. After a while I experiencing the sharp pain and in the static position, slowly I move my leg and walk toward the front door to see the newspaper guys weighing the papers. Is about 50 kg of weight which in return we got about RM8 for the old newspapers price. The old newspaper guys asked me what happen? and I replied to him that I just lifted the the old newspaper in awkward position and got waist injury. For few days I have been suffering of waist pain. The newspaper man saw me in the pain and advise to me to lift the paper properly. He show me how to lift the heavy stuffs and avoid injury. He show me the correct way which using knee as strong strenght to lift any heavy good. He demonstrate to me few times to ensure that I really understand how to lift. In my thought at that time, at work place I thought people how to lift safely and being consider as safety expert at my place of work. Laughting to myself of th leasson I learnt that day. The good things about this lesson is, never look down of peoples with thier status but the knowledge or experience that they have counts!. I learn a big lesson that day that we need to be reminded most of the time and as human we tend to forget things if we rarely practice it. You can apply this to any application or activity. Another good lesson that change my thought is that, you think you know but actual you are not there to demonstrate that you really know unless you really did that. In split second if you ignore the important of safety that where you will involve in incident of accident....try to recall some of accident that occurred to you and try to think it is true hhat I did said just now. Judge yourself if it really valueble to you.

Sum Ho

Today, I have an opportunity to observe the unloading of para-xylene from ship tanker to ground/land storage. It's quite interesting experience when seeing at close distance how the ship unloading dangerous material. "Sum Ho" is the ship name and believed to be registered at Korea based on the flag. Load of question playing in my mind, how they barge, how the pull the ship "rope" for ship parking, how this ship men were boarding and being check by imigresen. Asking further to the crews, first thing normally happen when the ship embarking the barge, imegresen, health and the port authority will do the inspection and verify the approved document before allowing the crews to be landing on the sore. Later the process will handover to the ship customer for further preparation before loading. There is a mediator who helping the company to dealing with these authories in ensuring that these peoples are available once the ship embarking. It's about coordinator, poor coordination will delay the unloading activities. I have chance to look at so call "checklist" for the unloading activity. It's like a book of various checklists and documents. At this time about 5000 tan of para xylene to be tranferred to storage which at rated of 500 ton/hr. Estimated to unload the chemical for 10 hours. Bigger the ship and lower the pumping capacity will prolong the unloading process. Once the transfer completed the ship will be back on the sea to next destination. Our life is just like a ship, a captain to lead, a crew to help, a direction to go, each stop with different experience, each experience will tought us something. When come the day..it will be surrended and turn to scrab metal (dispose).

Word Power

I feel that would like to share something may be useful to some of you. For me it is really helpful and very useful to eshtablish connection and bond with people who we dealing with. Using incorrect word may create impression to receiver that may distance you and gerenate negative preception to word you. I being conducting number of trainings and also attending verious training throughout my career. I found out that using word teach and share have made great impact in my training and learning. Dealing with adult participants with long service career, years of expertise, perceive audience and incorporate audience you need to start with the right word. Adult don't like to be teach especially from younger people who just graduated or being few years experience in the field. Not to said other people, personally I would feel the same way if some junior or inexperience person come and tell me that he would like to teach you this and that.....What do you feel? I believed you will have the same thinking as mind. May be not? Some people don't realise it or just ignore that. When you hear someone come to teach you, for sure you will feel uncompfortable but if someone want to share with you something, for sure you volunteer to listen and learn . From my experience, using "sharing" word during opening of the training class help me a lot. You can see the change of thier mindset. that why people did said think before you say....because the word you will use may be intrepreted differently.