pre-stroke- my life as a contractor

sometime in 1997, we hit our first jackpot, a water pipeline job of 21 million ringgit value. this ,on top of our now regular gas pipeline jobs from gas malaysia. this job was phenomenal in various ways, firstly the pipe itself is of 2,000mm diameter, that's a huge pipe, a normal 4 x4 can be driven right into it. the route itself was a huge challenge, varying from the busy jalan kuching near the selayang pasar borong to backlanes of taman greenwood in selayang. on top of that, at this time, selangor/ft was facing a water crisis/ shortage, so this 8 km. job was urgent. before we race forward with regards to the job, let me say that this project was the most easily swecured, i just had to meet'the broker" once and soon enough the job was ours.what started as a rm20 million job in the end added rm 30 million to our revenue. there were many first, foremost of which was that at one time, we had 6 sheetpile driver working along jalan kuching, this was necessary as both sides of the trench had to be supported by sheet piles to avoid collapse of the road, each working morning our work caused massive traffic jams. a lot of money was made but a lot was also paid out to various consultants/ brokers.