pre-stroke- my life as a contractor

syukur alhamdulillah, as soon as we finished the gardenia project, we were awarded the ngds shah alam phase2 project, thus continuity was maintained. if the gardenia project sealed our reputation as a serious contractor, the completion of the shah alam phase 2 project hailed our arrival as an innovative contractor, this on the basis that we proposed to lay the pipes in the middle island of the four lane roads.nobody gave us a chance of getting approval from mpsa for this, but we managed to obtain it with the help of haniff the then mpsa engineer, the same haniff who in later years was unfortunately charged in the norita murder case. when he was acquitted, i was happy, because from my dealings with him, he proved to be a decent and nice guy.this second project went quite smoothly, delivered on time and money was made. the only serious incident was that on one particular excavation, the backhoe struck a 132kv tnb cable resulting in much hue and cry by the district tnb engineers who claimed that the particular cable was for electrical supply to the istana. no sweat, everything was smoothed over and we jubilantly received our final complation certificate and the industry started to acknowledge our existence. i guess this project heralded our credentials.