Starting Work

Starting work, How the other half live and Chinese predators

Life has been beyond manic recently and I've been trying to find the time to write this for the past 4 days, so here goes.

View from the Penthouse

First week at work is officialy over,  involving mostly lots of cringe worthy photo opportunities consisting of my company orchestrating situations to get a photo with its new batch of western recruits, one such example is shown below.  I won't bore anyone who reads this with the construction industry to much, but being taken around penthouse suites that retail for £4 mill + whilst living somewhere with the same sanitary and comfort level of a refugee camp is like a constant, pneumatic like slap in the face.

Oh yeah we have bitching bowling alley uniforms too

Wednesday night me and Bradley, shortly followed by some of the guys decided to attend a Malysian house party, with Bradley as the hook up via a friend from Loughborough. Imagine a slightly more toned down and a lot more Asian version of Project X and you've pretty much got the idea. Surrounded by ex pats and extremely wealthy young Malaysians some of which i found out were junior members of various royal families and others who just claimed there relatives were on the money was a frankly hilarious experience. I'm not impoverished or anything like that, but walking into what effectively was an Asian OC was a new one for me.

It was hilarious, all the locals were smashed as we remained sober (7am start the next day firmly on our minds), someone jumped from the balcony onto a bouncy castle and burst it etc, etc.  

"Dude! I haven't been this fucked up since Langkawi!" - Some fucked up guy

Crappy photo of the night

I'm sure some stuff happened after that, but the only thing i can remember next is going out on the Saturday night. Niall and Oli who are working at Balfour Beaty are moving to Penang so we all high tailed it round theirs for some pre drinks. Whilist having a drink on their apartment balcony on the 15th floor or something like that overlooking KL i had a realisation about how lucky i am to be here, and how surreal it is that a little over a month ago i was stuck in a grotty market town in the East Midlands.

A half group shot of the pre-drinks at Niall's and Oli's place

Topping off the night with escaping from two psycho Chinese girls flat and scaling a vertical wall ended it nicely.

More ramblings to follow