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ofelia

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my co-worker approached me earlier as i was at my office desk to ask me on something about the banking details information form that our personnel department sent us to fill up.  i explained to him to make sure that the information is precisely correct like the names on the account and our conversation started out like this:

“you have to make sure that you put in your name and your wife’s if it is a joint account – like, it’ll be for example ‘francis and/or ofelia mendoza’.”

his face was in shock as i mentioned the woman’s name.

“how do you know ‘ofelia’?”  he said.

“i don’t, i just thought of a female name out of nowhere . . . why?”  i gave him a puzzled look.

“she was my girlfriend when i was working in a textile factory in taiwan, she’s from marinduque.”  he added.

“oh, really?!  what a concidence!”  i blurted out.  “well, where is she now?”

francis said: “she’s been dead for four years, and it’s no joke.”

i shivered as i heard that.  out of thousands of female names – how did i thought of her name?

golden showers

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we had unexpected guests last night at the rig. when i went back to our office after i had dinner, beside my table were a box of red capped, wide mouthed plastic bottles and a small blue ice box – i cannot help myself but to peek inside the container and i saw test kits inside. my rig manager asked me what was it for and i told him that the drug testers are on location.

the presence of illegal drugs on an employee while performing company business or while on company premises is a violation of company policy. the use, sale, purchase, transfer or possession of an illegal drug by any employee while on company premises or while on company business is a violation of company policy.

it is the first time that we had a random screening here at the rig and i have been here for almost three years. i think our main office just had to do it for there were reports of illegal drug use on some rigs. considering this is saudi arabia but still, it does exist. i had to wake up some of the crew who were off tour for them to visit the rig clinic to have their urine samples for the drug tests.

i actually volunteered to be the first to have my urine sample checked.

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the testers were using a multi drug test panel dip cards on which checks for presence of metabolites of cocaine, amphetamines, methadone, marijuana, and opiates. some of the crew were a bit nervous that it took time for them to pee to provide the urine sample, well i think there will be one obvious reason (i am not saying all) to be jittery on a random drug test – and that is if you are a user.