the naked geologist

Since my summer internship is over, now I have a huge load of work to DO before I had back to the UK.

Work = polishing up my geological maps!, do a cross section! and not to forget my strat logs needs to be taking care of as well! Argh. All under just two weeks! I need a smack on the head for that! I finally now feel the pressure.. but the good side of it is at least I’m ever more motivated.  hehe

Will update more later.

I’m really digging the new layout of my blog. Pretty simple and sweet which really reflects my current mood at the moment. Today is my last day working of my summer internship and Thus far, I really enjoyed it very much. That is why there was lack of update for the past few weeks but nevermind

Never knew that working may need alot of mental power and determination! It was hard for me at first as I’m the kind of person who would get bored easily if I do some of the work over and overrrr again. But I manage to get over it. After the last couple of weeks working in the company, I finally had the sense of belonging to the company with my contributions. The workload was well worth it I tell you and I learn so much that really help to develop skills not only benefit myself as being a future geologist but it also develop my personality and inner self to be a better and wise person. There were no regrets of choosing to work at the company for this SUMMER 2008. And as I mentioned before, working here really opens up my eyes and this is what I want to see myself working once I graduated from University.

But for now, I need to score BIG time for my degree so that I can be a reliable and knowledgeable geologist in the future. So my fellow readers, Learn if you still have the tendency to do it! and STOP when you already fed up of learning. Who knows, I might continue my studies up to PhD… but time will only tell.

Ooh Ooh. I forgot to wish all of my muslim readers outthere “Happy Fasting!“.

*sigh* well thats that. Had my presentation a few minutes ago and I’m glad to know that they really like it. Although there were a couple of things that I need to polish but Its not bad when its done at the last minute.

That is one thing I need to get rid out of my system and start working on things in advance. Haven’t started doing any work for my mapping which I should be starting tomorrrroooowww.

As for now, I wonder what I should cook for Sungkai later.. hmmmmm

till then

Take Care

I have stumbled upon this funny links about Geologist: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Geologist

And below is a copy from the website on how to spot a Geologist in the wild, Enjoy!

look for:

• Hand-lens, compass, pen-knife, handcuffs etc. tied round neck with string.
• Someone with a beard and Sandals… Jesus was a Geologist (actually, carpenters back then were also stonemasons, so there is some truth to that statement)
• Someone who owns a pet rock and is not eight (in the case of paleontologists, this will be their closest friend), with said ‘pet’ often found hanging from keys.
• Someone with not much enthusiasm on the subject of dinosaurs. Geologists consider an event a ‘mass’ extinction only if 80% of the living organisms die and get buried in sediment for conservation.
• Someone explaining to airport security that a sidewall core covered in gunpowder residue isn’t really a weapon.
• Someone who only includes people in photos for scale, and has more pictures of his/her rock hammer and lens caps than of family and friends.
• Some who, if they could travel to Jupiter’s moon, IO, would think the coolest part about it was the volcanoes and not the space travel.
• Someone with a collection of beer cans/bottles that rivals the size of his rock collection.
• Someone lighting a cigarette with a handlens focussing the sunlight, or a coat hanger stretched between the battery terminals of a University van.
• Someone who brings beer instead of water when hiking.
• Someone whose lunch consists of rocks, instead of ordinary bread.
• Someone who consumes tonsil-killing chili for dinner every night of the week, and warms it up in a can on the drill rig engine block.
• Someone whose child is trained to know the geologic timescale before being able to walk.
• Someone with hair in a pony-tail (this applies to male or female geologists).
• Someone who considers a “recent event” to be anything that has happened in the last hundred million years.
• Someone who licks and/or scratches & sniffs rocks or in case of china clay will eat it to prove its perfectly safe.
• Someone who eats dirt and claims to be “getting an estimate of grain size”
• Someone who will willingly cross an eight-lane interstate on foot to determine if the outcrops are the same on both sides.
• Someone who can pronounce the word molybdenite correctly on the first try.
• Someone who has hiked 6 miles to look at a broken fence that was “offset by a recent earthquake”.
• Someone who says “this will make a nice Christmas gift” while out rock collecting.
• Someone who thinks a “sexual exploit” is lying naked on an outcrop so the satellite will photograph them on the next pass.
• Someone who hires student assistants with an eye to whether they can run slower so the bears get them first.
• Someone who can jump start a campfire in wet weather with the judicious application of a beer fart.
• Someone who from personal experience knows the difference between Arctic grade and summer grade diesel fuel.
• Someone who even on an average day in the field can make Indiana Jones look like a bit of a klutzy wuss
• Someone who looks at scenery and tells you how it formed.
• Someone whose pockets tend to be filled with bits of rock.
• Someone whose rockery moved into their spare room.
• Someone who has more pairs of hiking boots than shoes.
• Someone who wears hiking boots constantly, even for formal functions, and occasionally sandals with (obligatory) socks
• Someone who thinks of woodlice as trilobites but would tell anyone off who said so.
• Someone who, when on a beach, will collect shells and try to explain their muscle scars to you.
• Someone who prefers to explain the sequence of events shown in a cliff face to sunbathing.
• Someone whose collection of petrified wood samples is stacked like cord wood.
• Someone who plans extra time on trips to investigate road cuts along the way.
• Someone who almost crashes his/her car looking at road cuts while driving.
• Someone who often explains how their boozy coffee with whipped cream resembles a layered igneous complex.
• Someone who knows the phylum, kingdom, and genus of every ancient creature lodged in stone, some of which look nothing like an animal, but can’t remember his/her mother’s, or spouse’s, birthday.
• Someone who uses a geologic hammer to halve a boiled egg.
• Someone who modifies his/her one yard pace to one meter in order to simplify pace-and-compass mapping.
• Someone whose radioactive ore specimen collection glows in the dark. It is so bright you can:
  • use it to read by.
  • illuminate your front yard.
  • use it as a landing beacon.
  • see it from Mars.
• Someone who can identify the chemical formula for Cummingtonite…and chuckles like a junior-high kid every time.
• Someone stuck on the side of the road without a spare tire because it was removed to make more room for samples or alcohol (or the spare is already being used on the other side of the van).
• Someone who, when asked what this rock is says, “Leverite, so leave her right there.”
• Someone who walks out of a bathroom and asks if you noticed the fossils in the stall dividers.
• Someone prone to Linnean mnemonic devices such as Keep Privates Clean Or Forget Getting Screwed.
• Someone who can only relate to one “Rock Band” (besides BIF): Are We Not Men, We Are Devonian!
• Someone who enjoys their topography: Subduction leads to orogeny, and orogeny leads to relief.
• Someone who walks into an art museum and looks at the floors and columns commenting on the stylolites and fossils, rather than looking at the paintings.
• Someone whose shorts expose way more leg than you ever wanted to see.
• Someone who rocks the party and is the schist everywhere they go.
• Someone who can say, “Gneiss Cleavage” or talks about slaty cleavage and means it in a non-derogatory sense.
• Someone who takes special interest in your granite countertops in the kitchen and after a few minutes will even produce handlenses before giving other guests an igneous petrology lesson.
• Someone who gets really upset when the countertop, which is obviously mafic/aphanitic/metamorphic, is called granite and takes 20 minutes to tell you why you’re wrong.
• Someone who can’t use a street map because it doesn’t have contour lines.
• When helping someone move and you ask “is this box full of rocks?” They answer “yes, be careful.”
• Someone who always carries a small squeezy bottle of vinegar in their pocket.
• If you remain unsure, ask the subject to draw an annotated diagram of a trilobite. A true geologist will immediately reach for their waterproof notebook – this is your opportunity for escape.”

Hello Everybody!

I am ALIVE! hehe and Yes Currently I’m in Brunei Darussalam enjoying my summer break. I’m really sorry for the delay in posting any news of myself lately. One of the main reasons that I’ve been away from the blogging world because I’ve been keeping myself busy with work in general.

At this moment, I’m currently carrying out my summer internship at one of the well-known oil and gas companies over here. This has got to be the biggest challenge yet that I’ve faced so far ‘cos I never been experiencing anything outside in the working world beforehand. With being clueless of what to expect and   now, I finally felt the pinch of working as to compare with studying. Which is waaaaayyy different.

So far, during my 3 weeks of stay, I’ve learned so much about the role of geology in the petroleum industry. Having close network relationships with the geophysicists and well engineers were one of the things that I notice in being able to carry out a project. Even though that I’m just a trainee over there, somehow I felt there’s a sense of welcome and belonging to the company. As the tasks that were given to me have shown that I hold a small responsibility to the company and that really made me motivated to try my best to produce an excellent work in the end.

I guess it safe to say that I’m really enjoying my time working overthere at the moment and I now know where my heart is for geology which is in the Petroleum industry.

I’ll post something about my trip in SPAIN when I’m really FREE from work.

So watch this space and Have a great WEEKEND!