it's the ironic & controversial rhapsody of an ambiguous bert

Imagine a 9-platform high distillation column. And then imagine the sea breeze blowing in your hair. Put those 2 together and tada, you get to imagine my experience for the night.

It was the 4th day of my industrial attachment - training at Jurong Island, NYP's Chemical Process Techonology Center, and the first day of our practicals. I got the chance to mount a really high distillation column and get to take in the rest of Jurong Island from all the way up there. It may not be considered something BIG or really awesome but to a chemical student, who after 3 days of nothing but lectures at a really cold auditorium, reaching the top of the column was indeed something.

True, in addition to the sea breeze and cool view (the island looked really different at night with all the lights lit up at the various plants), there was the smell of diesel or some other weird oily thing that hung perpetually in the air, but it's not everyday where u get to climb a distillation column (and I mean climb with your hands and legs, not walking up the stairs). Well, not unless you work as a technician or specialist at a plant, then most probably you will dread the long climb up.

posted by bert @ 1:50 AM