Day 15 - Steel Industry visit

Woke up early at 6 to bath and to eat some light breakfast. Later assembled at the main gate and boarded the bus to get to the place.

The safety helmets look really... Hey mum, your 'sentosa's hat'. I get to wear it again.

The 'special' bus that is allowed into the factory. Other buses are not allowed.

I got some free sweets. From 旺旺 . Chewable too!

See the internal railroad. Internal means that the train operates to deliver goods within the boundaries of the factory.

It's not fun because we had to stop and wait to allow the train's passage.

Caught 3 factory workers slacking. Introducing Masita and Hajar and lastly, Pei Jie.

The factory area. See the railway lining this area?

Group Photo. Mr Wong, you are our group member ah? Must do your part in the projects...

We went into the factory whereby no cameras were allowed as a safety measure.

After donning our helmets, we had to move along the passageway and as we did that, a large piece of moulded steel came out, piping hot from the furnace. We all could feel the radiating heat that soars to 900 degrees. No wonder we were all drawing back.

That steel plate was then moved along the conveyors and then using jet waters from another machine, it was cleaned of impurities on the surface. The steel was moving back and forth on the conveyor before progressing.

Afterwards, the steel was later sent to another machine to compress and shape it into large coils ready for direct shipment. I learnt they practiced a Just-in-time (JIT) theory.

Honestly, the noise pollution was really deafening. I had to cove my ears for most of the parts, especially when the crane hovered over us to dispose off scape metal.

The above mentioned process may be lacking as I was not able to see the entire process and so, unable to confirm the whole thing. Mr Wong did fill in the blanks for the process.

MDE students, let's go. Wait, are we students or workers?

Went for lunch with Xin Hui, Weiguang, Nadiyah, Hashanah, Pei Jie, Zee Min and Xiang Yu. Naturally, with respect to the NE message, we have to preserve racial and religious harmony and so, we went to eat Halal food.

I must admit that the blend dishes are tasty and with fresh vegetables, we really were digging in.

Along the way back to our room, I managed to buy this packet of yougr, flavoured with Aloe Vera (芦荟). It's tasty and soon, I finished it up. Initially, the deal was to purchase 4 for 10 yuan and you also get a free cup. Well, Pei Jie walked away with the vup as I got this drink which is good enough.

I spy Hajar falling asleep in class. Can't blame her. We are somewhat tired and also, check out the 'fashionable' orange tees most of us were still decked out in.

We still had lessons at 1. Mr Wong was highlighting aspects of manufacturing steel which we could not see such as the moulding of steel, adding of alloys as well as the cutting of the finished coils.

What have I learnt for today? Chapter 6.

I had instant noodles for dinner.

So, night!!