prestroke- my working life

i only lasted i month in petronas after which i hastily joined the fledgling malaysia mining corpn(mmc), a company formed to consolidate our tin mining industry that were already malaysianised, with offices in jalan tangsi right opposite bank rakyat's hq. i was now employed as an engineer, yeah no more trainee and also my salary increased by around rm500/-. my job was very very simple. mmc had an agreement with the flour corporation of the usa to enter the oil and gas design engineering business and had employed around 3o draughtsman from various industries, flour sent over a designer, i.e. a glorified draughtsman, and my job was to receive instructions from him and then convey his teachings to the local draughtsman, thats how easy it was. working in mmc hq at that time had several perks, cheap luncheon in mmc's own cafeteria, a corporate american express card and chauffeured mercedes limousine wherever we want to go for meetings, after several months, i was sent to houston to be attached at fluor's office there for the trengganu crude oil terminal project. i went there with siraj, now the ceo of alam flora, we were there for around 3 months. my most memorable experience in houston was attending the OTC at the houston's astrodome, this being my first conference, i was naturally overawed, man many of the participants / visitors came with their own helicopter. other than this there was nothing else memorable, of course i experienced the american penchant for lap dancing, not impressed, better to read a magazine, strangely, for me anyway, i never managed to hookup with any american ladies, something that is true till today.no regrets there, another piece of meat, malaysians are best.