How to grow up in a company.......

Nothing special in my daily lives, just doing my usual job as a Field Engineer, of course in the field. Hey, I just read an interesting article about a CEO of Total E&P, this is a multinational Oil company based in france.

The interesting part was that he started his career at this company, grow up in the same company, help to build the company while in mid-crysis era, until now he became the top Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company. For sure this was a brand new perspective for me. Because as far as my concern, nowadays, the trend is, in order to grow up on your discipline then you have to get as many as opportunities you can get outside your zone. Well, this was something interesting for me, cause from where I live this perspective is really upside down. You have to move to many different company to catch those opportunities in order to become big.

Based on that article, opportunities will not be limited by a company, but it is truly limited by our own flexibility and ability to adapt to a new changes. So, eventhough you stay in one company but if you eager enough to face those opportunities and challenges within the company, I believe we can become big there as well. well, you know what they said, "slow and steady win the race".....The only way to become successfull is to accept the change s within a company, eventhough sometimes in a crisis era, try to tackle the problems, and try to be able to move from old perspective to a new one. It surely will make the day and night of our hard work really worthwhile in that company.

These things has given me a relaxed perspective and certain relativity about how to grow up in a company. The company now is not the same as 10 years ago, and surely will be a different story in 2040. Because nowadays, we live in a very rapidly changing world, that only the survivor of these changes will survive. Well for me, cause I'm still new in my company, and have no plan to move to other company, it will be a good reference for me to grow in my company now.....hopefully....

Face the failures!!!

Halo again, this is me again, and still me.


After a long while working in the field, apparently a habit of continusly learning is a must, man. I'm telling you, it's a must.

On my profession as a Field Engineer, I need to run the tools, eventhough it's already become my common sense to run the tools, yeaah....almost, but still problem occured, and if we can't handle it and become something that over our head, then for sure, failure will occur as well. And believe me, if you work in a multinational company like me, FAILURE is the last thing you want to see.



And now, these kind of things have made me became more and more patient, eventhough how difficult our situation are, but we have to keep our head still and stay calm....yeah man, keep cool, calm, and confident no matter what.


For some time, these condition frustated me a lot, trying to find the best solution, getting so much pressure from the boss and other personnel, that's really typical of a field work indeed.


But after sometimes, it became normal thing. As long as you know what you're doing, keep consistent in it, try to troubleshoot as far as you can go, don't play fast and loose, then eventually it will be like riding a bycycle., never forget how to do it.

Oke mate, this kind of things helped me to grow up, hopefully by sharing this, it will strenghthen our spirit in a new world....Peace.....

My first Ramadhan Experience in Working-environment

Ramadhan is coming......this is my first Ramadhan fasting experience in field working environment, last year I still had my Ramadhan fasting in a college environment along together with my friends.

I missed those times, rough and tough times actually, because we don't have enough money. I remembered that we have to "hunt" for fast breaking from one mosque to another for 30 days, some of my friends made Ramadhan greetings card to sell, not to mention we have to attend class in the morning, sleepy hours....ha ha ha...

By doing this actually we can save some money for the next month, and it was a great gift for every each and one of us.

Having friends in the same condition and vission really built my spiritual improvement, we did shalat tarawih together, jamaah shalat together,struggling to hunt fast breaking and sahur together..everything together. And I have to admit that those kind of togetherness really motivated me to do the best for my spiritual life, but now i have to do it alone, nobody will remind me to have tarawih, etc....all by my self.....and it was hard for me to motivate myself cause its part of myself so called culture. I can say that I always live in a comfort zone, but now I have to live outside those comfort zone, it's tough but sure will try hard.

And hopefully this year I can finish my fasting month as a better person for me, my family, my friends, my religion...sighh...Hopefully.

Yipppyyy.....Recreation Time....

Visiting Komala Island in Tenggarong......my eyes were very fascinated by its natural beauty....I ever visited the same-style island in Japan few years ago, and actually this island had the same beauty with it.

I said to myself,...from now on, I will try to love Indonesian-real beauty,....coz basically we have those nature potential, it was just a matter of how we can develop and maintain this great gift.

I have to be very honest, that eventhough I love travelling, but sometimes i don't like to spend my time in travelling. So, when one of my friend asked me to join him, I said hey.....this could be a very good opportunity for me to release these stress after a month on the rig....could you imagine? a month on the rig, it was like just seeing waters all around....



It was a very enjoyful journey by the way,...we took a bus from Balikpapan to Kutai, and after that we need to take a special "angkot" to go to Tenggarong......Man, i felt live again....the beautiful scenery along the road, a good friend to chat with, no work-related topics,....it was a journey of a lifetime people said.



I'm telling you,... You will be very thankful to have a moment like this, after a long working days....especially when you ought to work in a field location like me...he he...



The Komala Island itself actually is an Island located in the bank of Mahakam river. It has a skytower, amazing park, bumper car, and car race...

We tried to enjoy all the amusement there as many as we could...pushed our adrenalin, release these stress...amazing...

After satisfied with all the games, finally we need to go home...and prepare for tomorrow....

.....setting our targets....

Hey man...how's life? as usual, nothing special happen to me. Just another day that I need to finish, just like yesterday....
No objectives,.....just flow like water they said......probably that's the problem for me,...I don't really care where I'm heading...

Frankly, when I was in university, I really care about my life, because by that time one thing in my mind was how to be a good student, ...achiever student,....and prepare myself to get a good job after graduate.

I planned every detail of my life palnning by that time. And the result was marveoulous, I got many achievements which lead me to go abroad, and I gain more self confidence.....

But now, it seems like, ....I don't have the eagerness to redesign my life planning. It was caused probably I felt that i've reached my goal which is to have a good job...

I was totally wrong,...eventhough I have reached my dream to become an engineer in one of the multinational company, but apparently still many dreams out there....so, everytime, we step to a new stage of our life, always bare in mind that a "good planning is half of our success"...

How bout u?

.....There always be first time to start.....

Hai....My name is Agus Ziyad Kurnia, i'm currently working as a Field Engineer in one of multinational Oil Service Company in Indonesia.

I started my career in Oil and Gas industry since 9 months ago, November 2006 exactly. As a newly hired employee that came "fresh from the oven",....I started to experience the rough life in the field. In some point, sometimes i wanna get out from this field life and change to an office-type of work, 8 to 5 working hours....wow, that sounds perfect for me.



But after a while, I started to enjoy this "new Field Life style", what can I say,....good accomodation, good salary, free internet acces are the things that kept me from leaving this field lifestyle.

And you know what the best part? I can meet so many different people with their unique characteristics in the field. yup,...in the field, people will not use some polite words to say something to you,...no way man...everyday is full with f*** and s*** words....



Today I met one of the highly positioned Engineer on the rig, and he's the one who encourage me to have a strong willingness to work as a field engineer. And, he also taught me to write a blog....in a simple way to release our stress, and share what we had....so this is me with my new blog,...hopefully I can use this blog well.cheers....