Career & Working Experience

I'd been working in Singapore since Aug, 2008 as a QS/ Project Engineer/Planner in EPCM Co.s for Oil & Petrochemical industry.

I got a Mechanical Engineering Degree in Jan, 2002. I'd working experiences of construction, management, heavy machinery equipment, liaise with client & customers before I came to Singapore.

I'd like to work in dynamic environment like project as we have a lot of contingency and uncertainty but we can grow our ability and effort to solve the issues and problems encountered.

I am proficient in Microsoft Office (Word/Excel), MS Project and Primavera P6 software.

I'd like to participate in an organization where I can broaden my horizon and contribute my ability for the organization where I'm involving.

In addition, I have a clean driving license (class 3) of Singapore.

In conclusion, I have more than 13years experience in construction , including 7 years in EPCM of Oil/Petrochemical Industry(Singapore), for Marketing Jobs, QS jobs, Planner Jobs, Project Engineer Jobs, Purchaser Jobs, Project Contract Personnel and Estimator Jobs.

If I win the first prize of Singapore Sweep, S$2.2 millions, Wow!

If I win the first prize of Singapore Sweep, S$2.2 millions, I will establish a business. My intention is to construct a trading firm.
I will accept the PR status if the Singapore's Government offers.
I will meet with all my bosses and seniors of current company and tell them that I will quit from the salary earning work.
Then, I will make a fare well party, may be a buffet party, with all my colleague.
Then, I will take one month vacation trip round the world.
I will visit to Japan, Australia, Newzeland, London and America!
Then I will go back to Myanmar, establish a trading company and come back to Singapore.
My intention is to make export of our Myanmar products like Rice, Beams, Vegetables and other products like clothes, home appliances made in Myanmar and other handy craft like sovereign, jade, gold and edible oil.
The things in which I intend to import from Singapore are heavy machinery spare parts, handsets, laptops, desktop and decoration materials.
Moreover, I will donate some amount to orphanage house, aged house, some NGOs and Monastery.
Then, I will manage all the company which was established by me.
I also want to invest some amount in real estate, restaurants, tour company and some kind of industry like clothing, furniture making and chillers.
I think, I will be very busy for managing the all businesses I had established.
I will not so happy at that time because I will be totally fed up at time.
This is what I will do if I win the first prize of Singapore Sweep, 2.2 millions S$.

The day I lost my wallet

I'd like to talk about the day I lost my wallet.
It was a rainy day.
I was very busy at the office the whole day.
Preparing the necessary facts and figures for the meeting which would held on the following day.
Unfortunately, I could not finish in time for the agenda and the documents for the meeting which was really important for us as it was the meeting with our client personnel.
So, I decided to bring some documents and drawings to my house to continue my office work.
I hired a taxi. I carried a quite bulky items that I only tried to get my house with the efforts all I could.
When I arrived to my house and settle up all bulky items on my table, I found that my wallet was not in my pocket. I tried to find all the way I could to find my wallet, all the way from the place where I alighted from the taxi up to the table in the house where I placed these bulky items. I could not find my wallet any where.
Finally, I realized that my wallet was lost on the way I came back to the house from the office.
I could not remember the taxi's license number.
I forgot to get the taxi's slip, so I could not traced it back.
Moreover, I pay the taxi's fares by cash, not by nets, so I could not also trace it too.
I had never lost my wallet before that time.
So, I was very embarrassed and fed up with that situation.
I didn't know what to do.
Therefore, I asked my roommate that what I should do.
As his advice, I first informed to POSB bank that I had lost my bank cards with the wallet and hold my account for a while for preventing of using my bank card by others.
I phoned to the loss & found telephone no. 6552 4525 of City Cab Comfort Taxi.
But, they also had no idea that I could not tell him either taxi's license no. or driver's name.
Nevertheless, I also reported to the neighborhood police station about that I had lost my wallet together with all my identification cards.
Then, I phoned to my manager that I would be late to office the following day because I had to settle the problems occurred due to my wallet lost.
Another problem I had encountered was I was left nothing, that is, no money with me for that time for a while.
So, I had to borrow some amount to money from my room mate because I had also lost MRT cards, cash cards and petty cash together with wallet.
That was my nightmare and bad experience in my life.
From that day of losing my wallet, whenever and wherever I go outside, I always hold my wallet all the time. I don't allow to happen it again.
And I also don't want to do any homework other than office hour because once I sacrificed for the company, and the result was losing my wallet. But, actually, the cause of the problem was carelessness of me.
That was the day in which I lost my wallet.

My very first day in Singapore

My very first day in Singapore

It's very funny!
When I first arrived to Singapore with Silk Air-line at 2008 June, the first problem I encountered was language barrier!

To make check out at the Changi Air Port immigration point, I met with a Malay lady officer who asked me a lot of questions in English language but in Malay accent.
Actually, my English skill was not so bad at that time. May be, let say, intermediate level. However, I didn't understand what that Malay lady officer was saying.
Finally, only I managed to understand was her last question!
She asked me about that whether I would work in Singapore or not!
I answered "yes, if I get the chance!"
She promptly responded me that "no, you cannot! " which means " because you come to Singapore with only short visit visa, and so you don't have the right to make any form of employment here until or unless you get legal permission to do so like some kind of employment pass allowed from MOM, ministry of man power of Singapore !"
I was frightened at the moment because perhaps she rejected me from entering into Singapore on the spot! Some of my friends were rejected to enter Singapore without giving any reason at the immigration check point before I come to Singapore !
But, luckily, she allowed me to stay one month period and chopped one month visa seal on my passport and white card!
I was very happy because I could stay for a while in one of the Asian Tiger countries which was only a small fishing village in recent time!

At the air port visitor lot, my little aunt had already arrived to fetch me or pick me up. Then, we went to our place in a taxi cab!
On the way, I saw a lot of good scenes, cleanliness and some Myanmar named roads like Irrawaddy Road, Chin Dwin Road,Moulmein Road, Rangoon Road, Bassein Rd, Minbu Rd, Mandalay Rd, Pegu Rd, Ava Rd, Shan Rd, Bhamo Rd., Prome Rd. etc in the downtown area.
Within a few minutes, we arrived to our rented house, actually an apartment, which is called HDB flat in Singapore.
The rental fees for the house in Singapore is not cheap compare to its counterparts of developing and well developed countries in the world! The most expensive country among ASEAN countries.
The house rental fee is S$350 per head for a month which can feed a small family in my home town for the whole month!

I had never been to any foreign country before at that time!
Wow!
Then, I was arriving to the safest place in the world!
No. 3 livable city and no.10 expensive country of the whole world which really has no resource but very rich due to good management and reputation!

Then, we bought lunch at the food court. The chinese vendor of the food court asked us "In here or take away ?". I said "pack the food in"parcel"
She didn't understand what I was saying about! What a pity thing. There are so many people who do not understand even a single word of simple English in this English speaking country! So we had to use international language which is sign language. I ate chicken rice, which is the most famous staple food of Singapore. It costs LAN quiet pan, in Chinese language, S$2.5 for each. My little aunt ate Nasi Lamak, a Malay coconut flavor rice with fried chicken, an egg, some slices of cucumber, fried dried small fish and peanuts. "chilli or no chilli? ". I only nodded as a sign of "yea" or shaking my head for signalling "No".
Because a lot of food court staff are main land Chinese people who just only know very few words of English, merely for some survival words. But they can communicate and survive well in Singapore because Singaporeans can speak both Chinese & English language. Actually, I think Singaporean Chinese come from main land china. They are inherited persons of mainland Chinese people.



Regards,
Zaw Lin Myat
Project Engineer/QS
+65 9236 5324

NB: How to eat an elephant?
A bite at a time!