I'm doing resolution no. 2 today...work from home. So lega...I get to complete all the little things that have been on my to-do list that seems to have taken forever to cross out.
Amazing how much you can accomplish when you're not physically in the office where people bug you all the time. Amazing how people seem to be able to get things done on thier own when you are not around. Best!!!
Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts
Friday, January 25
Monday, December 10
First degree Taichi
All you beautiful people have heard of first degree murder yes? What about first degrea taichi? Read below...nama-nama yang digunakan adalah nama samaran dan berkaitan dengan orang yang masih hidup!!
Note to readers...please start at the end!!
From: Yuih
To: Boss Besar
Since I sent that email, Eiffel has confirmed that he wants us to use the filtered and shifted version instead. George had to go home but will be back.
We should be able to tell Eiffel that his final confirmation of the image to be used was given this pm. Confirmation on the workflow was only provided this am, and its actually the same workflow right from the beginning, and I'm not surprised at all SIGH :-(
Too many cooks...
Problem is we're all in hot soup.
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From: Boss besar [mailto:]
To: Yuih
Yang,
I'm sorry to put you through this - unfortunately with the drilling pushing ahead ***** (company deleted for Confidentiality) are desperate to see some results from the inversion and subsequent PP work. Not sure what we can really do other than try to deliver something we all agree has some value .... If you really feel we can go no further when it gets to tomorrow morning I can request a VC/Conf call with Eiffelto try to explain.
Richard.
At 06:13 PM 12/10/2007, you wrote:
Hi all,
George is now loading the unfiltered, unshifted VSP and redoing his wavelet estimations.
We're a bit concerned with the differences in the sampling rate of the images that have been provided thus far.
I have also not seen any comparisons of the unfiltered, unshifted image with the surface seismic. George is going to follow up with an email to Eiffel2(CC all) to voice out these concerns.
Richard,
I understand the need to push this forward, but I strongly believe ***** (deleted again) should first look at the comparison of the surface seismic and the raw VSP before we commit to anything. Has Eiffel actually seen anything of that sort? We think he hasn't for the following reasons:
He was having problems connecting to InterAct.
He asked George to email him the segy of the VSP in Eiffel2's ppt. And that was the filtered shifted version.
In the meantime, we will redo the wavelet estimations.
Tired and depressed :-(
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From: Boss Besar
To: gloryseeker@copenhagen.oilfield.slb.com; 'Victim1'; 'Victim2'; 'Victim3
Cc: Yuih
Subject: Call with Eiffel
Importance: High
Glory seeker et al,
I have just spoken with Eiffel. He is making a request to have Eiffel2 update the processing based on CBukit's workflow. However he feels the data we are working is of sufficient quality for us to proceed full bore with the inversion work. He would very much like us to be able to provide the inversion results for the pore pressure prediction work to ***** Pau today that he could then pick up first thing in the morning to review.
Do we think it is possible to complete something today ?
Thanks and Regards,
Richard.
At 05:09 PM 12/10/2007, Boss Besar wrote:
Glory seeker,
Another potential curveball - I've just had an SMS from CBukit saying that Eiffel prefers to use CBukit's original processing flow and asks that Eiffel2 redoes his work. I am about to call CBukit and then Eiffel to confirm. Will keep you all posted in the next few minutes.
Best Regards,
Richard.
At 05:08 PM 12/10/2007, Glory seeker wrote:
Richard, please make any corrections as appropriate.
1. Unless we hear otherwise we should consider the raw migration supplied by Eiffel2 on Friday as the final input seismic for the inversion.
Although Richard and I didnt discuss this issue, for sake of completeness, I will restate here that I think that we should also assume that we do not need to shift the new seismic data, as per the e-mail from CBukit.
We should therefore crack on with wavelet estimation and inversion tests using the latest data from Eiffel2.
2. Victim2 and Victim3 will work on a PowerPoint to be sent by Victim1 to Eiffel this evening local time in Brunei showing the velocity log inserted into filtered versions of the delta-stack velocity section. Victim1 and Victim2 will keep everyone else in the loop particularly with respect to expected timing, which Richard will communicate to the client.
Best regards
Glory seeker
Note to readers...please start at the end!!
From: Yuih
To: Boss Besar
Since I sent that email, Eiffel has confirmed that he wants us to use the filtered and shifted version instead. George had to go home but will be back.
We should be able to tell Eiffel that his final confirmation of the image to be used was given this pm. Confirmation on the workflow was only provided this am, and its actually the same workflow right from the beginning, and I'm not surprised at all SIGH :-(
Too many cooks...
Problem is we're all in hot soup.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Boss besar [mailto:]
To: Yuih
Yang,
I'm sorry to put you through this - unfortunately with the drilling pushing ahead ***** (company deleted for Confidentiality) are desperate to see some results from the inversion and subsequent PP work. Not sure what we can really do other than try to deliver something we all agree has some value .... If you really feel we can go no further when it gets to tomorrow morning I can request a VC/Conf call with Eiffelto try to explain.
Richard.
At 06:13 PM 12/10/2007, you wrote:
Hi all,
George is now loading the unfiltered, unshifted VSP and redoing his wavelet estimations.
We're a bit concerned with the differences in the sampling rate of the images that have been provided thus far.
I have also not seen any comparisons of the unfiltered, unshifted image with the surface seismic. George is going to follow up with an email to Eiffel2(CC all) to voice out these concerns.
Richard,
I understand the need to push this forward, but I strongly believe ***** (deleted again) should first look at the comparison of the surface seismic and the raw VSP before we commit to anything. Has Eiffel actually seen anything of that sort? We think he hasn't for the following reasons:
He was having problems connecting to InterAct.
He asked George to email him the segy of the VSP in Eiffel2's ppt. And that was the filtered shifted version.
In the meantime, we will redo the wavelet estimations.
Tired and depressed :-(
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From: Boss Besar
To: gloryseeker@copenhagen.oilfield.slb.com; 'Victim1'; 'Victim2'; 'Victim3
Cc: Yuih
Subject: Call with Eiffel
Importance: High
Glory seeker et al,
I have just spoken with Eiffel. He is making a request to have Eiffel2 update the processing based on CBukit's workflow. However he feels the data we are working is of sufficient quality for us to proceed full bore with the inversion work. He would very much like us to be able to provide the inversion results for the pore pressure prediction work to ***** Pau today that he could then pick up first thing in the morning to review.
Do we think it is possible to complete something today ?
Thanks and Regards,
Richard.
At 05:09 PM 12/10/2007, Boss Besar wrote:
Glory seeker,
Another potential curveball - I've just had an SMS from CBukit saying that Eiffel prefers to use CBukit's original processing flow and asks that Eiffel2 redoes his work. I am about to call CBukit and then Eiffel to confirm. Will keep you all posted in the next few minutes.
Best Regards,
Richard.
At 05:08 PM 12/10/2007, Glory seeker wrote:
Richard, please make any corrections as appropriate.
1. Unless we hear otherwise we should consider the raw migration supplied by Eiffel2 on Friday as the final input seismic for the inversion.
Although Richard and I didnt discuss this issue, for sake of completeness, I will restate here that I think that we should also assume that we do not need to shift the new seismic data, as per the e-mail from CBukit.
We should therefore crack on with wavelet estimation and inversion tests using the latest data from Eiffel2.
2. Victim2 and Victim3 will work on a PowerPoint to be sent by Victim1 to Eiffel this evening local time in Brunei showing the velocity log inserted into filtered versions of the delta-stack velocity section. Victim1 and Victim2 will keep everyone else in the loop particularly with respect to expected timing, which Richard will communicate to the client.
Best regards
Glory seeker
Friday, November 23
Of bad month and ladybird
This morning, as I was driving to work, I stopped at a traffic light. Not just any traffic light, it was the same junction where I saw the two gagaks sharing the drumstick, and guess what, the birds weren't there. So Kak Idah and Kak Adek will not get their fair share of the drumstick prize of knowing the Bird song.
I then looked down at my jeans and saw a ladybird. Don't ask me how it got there, but my guess it it must have flown/found its way on me when I got in the car. Ladybird...still got the word bird there since its bird week, what a coincidence!! It started to crawl everywhere, and I didn't panic. Don't know where it ended, probably in my baju, but I had to focus on my driving. Okay enough of birds!!
It has been such a bad week for me. I missed my revenue target by USD98K, all because of imcompetent fools and tools.
USD32K, because of clients yang tak tahu what data they've got, we wasted too much time sorting out their database sampai project got delayed.
USD25K because a tool got stuck in the hole while drilling. Which meant that they had to stop drilling, recover the tool and then continue. As a result, we could not complete our work sebab data pun belum acquire/measure lagi, hence tak leh start the project.
USD41K sebab another segment that I was relying on just &@cked up their QC. Today, I had to spend an excruciating hour explaining to the client why we will be very delayed on that project. Client pun kecut jugak sebab he too has now got to go back to his management and explain the situation. So unfortunate that this has to happen to a project with a very high visibility.
Looks like I may not be able to achieve my target of 1.6M for the year, which will affect my bonus. I sometimes wonder why I even bother. Next week I have to attend a workshop and miss Dina's competition...my life is starting to look like a typical American movie. Mother (usually its the dad) too caught up with work, trying to secure money for a stupid organization and still fail in the end....and to top it all off, her kids feel neglected.
I then looked down at my jeans and saw a ladybird. Don't ask me how it got there, but my guess it it must have flown/found its way on me when I got in the car. Ladybird...still got the word bird there since its bird week, what a coincidence!! It started to crawl everywhere, and I didn't panic. Don't know where it ended, probably in my baju, but I had to focus on my driving. Okay enough of birds!!
It has been such a bad week for me. I missed my revenue target by USD98K, all because of imcompetent fools and tools.
USD32K, because of clients yang tak tahu what data they've got, we wasted too much time sorting out their database sampai project got delayed.
USD25K because a tool got stuck in the hole while drilling. Which meant that they had to stop drilling, recover the tool and then continue. As a result, we could not complete our work sebab data pun belum acquire/measure lagi, hence tak leh start the project.
USD41K sebab another segment that I was relying on just &@cked up their QC. Today, I had to spend an excruciating hour explaining to the client why we will be very delayed on that project. Client pun kecut jugak sebab he too has now got to go back to his management and explain the situation. So unfortunate that this has to happen to a project with a very high visibility.
Looks like I may not be able to achieve my target of 1.6M for the year, which will affect my bonus. I sometimes wonder why I even bother. Next week I have to attend a workshop and miss Dina's competition...my life is starting to look like a typical American movie. Mother (usually its the dad) too caught up with work, trying to secure money for a stupid organization and still fail in the end....and to top it all off, her kids feel neglected.
Monday, October 29
Where do you see yourself in 10 years
I've just finished my interview with my Personnel Manager for Brunei, Malaysia and Philippines geomarket. What I expected to be an "Oh-gawd-what-else-do-you-need-to-do-to-tick-off-your-objectives" session turned out to be quite pleasant. It totally changed my perception of this guy. Initial perception sumer I got from my boss and the Egyptian mafia (Personnel Manager's nickname) surprised me. He wants to chart my career path and actually sounded like he cared. Also wanted to know if I'd appreciate having at least one day in a week to work from home....to which I'd actually said no. I mean my work space is my work space, to bring work home...just doesn't sound right.
He asked me the cliche question "Where do you see yourself in 10 years?"...and since I've been a Manager for quite a while, I'm getting good at eluding questions, I said, "Well, I can tell you where I don't want to be"
"I don't want to be an Ops Manager" and he said "Ooops!" BINGO, that's what they have planned for me obviously. I then told him, that I'm not ambitious, but if they provide me with the proper training, then I will consider, at the moment, I don't like managing things in my little segment, I certainly don't want to take on something that is 100 times greater..nope definitely not palatable to me.
We ended our discussion with an interesting question from him, "Would you have problems with relocating to South America, North America or Europe?" No one in this company asks a specific question like that. Definitely a loaded question...something is definitely brewing, and to top it all off, this guy didn't even know that he'd be losing me to another Schlumberger entity by end of the year.
He asked me the cliche question "Where do you see yourself in 10 years?"...and since I've been a Manager for quite a while, I'm getting good at eluding questions, I said, "Well, I can tell you where I don't want to be"
"I don't want to be an Ops Manager" and he said "Ooops!" BINGO, that's what they have planned for me obviously. I then told him, that I'm not ambitious, but if they provide me with the proper training, then I will consider, at the moment, I don't like managing things in my little segment, I certainly don't want to take on something that is 100 times greater..nope definitely not palatable to me.
We ended our discussion with an interesting question from him, "Would you have problems with relocating to South America, North America or Europe?" No one in this company asks a specific question like that. Definitely a loaded question...something is definitely brewing, and to top it all off, this guy didn't even know that he'd be losing me to another Schlumberger entity by end of the year.
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