Hands on the JOB

Remelean @ work

This week took a better shape than the previous because I used my brain in the area of my field or better still my B.Eng Electrical and Electronics Engineering certificate was in practice.

It was a battle between theory and practicals, all I had crammed, poured and passed were nowhere to be found in my small hed buhh thick skull. I was feeling ashamed d@ I was a graduate of elect-elect chai c wahala o, I kept ranting C.U in my hed and the lecturers names respectively who tot about power rite from EIE321. Imagine ordinary RMU I didn't know d meaning after 5years o, anyway sed a lil prayer. It might be funny buhh cm to think of it the prayer worked o.
Ehi: O lord plz I need ur help more than eva b4, plz make me not carry last buh help me bcos ur d giver of knowledge amen.
I never wanted to practice power again buhh just tot I cld give it a shot, my friend from d 90's invited me to join his father's company as dey had bn awarded d contract of installing transformers in a section of wot used to be called 1004 or 1G4 housing estate now known as 1076 hope m rite o. Just took a trip der wiv d mind to play buhh I learnt from the workers wot can never be learnt in CU in d next 2yrs. For those out der who can help me pass d message to the school, help me tell dem practicals is needed o, excursion money is not for fun, even though its egbin power station take d kids sorry the students der.

Let me spare all d story, they had already removed the bad transformer b4 I got there, d@ transformer had bn der for over 30yrs bcos 1004 was commissioned during OBJ's tenure as a military president bk then in the late 70's. Anyway we had to couple some armoured cable, bolt it into the pry and sec Side of the transformer, we connected the phcn side, the side to the earthing transformer......d remaining details re in my writing pad and hed.

                                          Damaged Transformer

Transformer before full connection

The best part of work was my excursion round d estate, listen peeps its mad and I mean it, no wonder the 4bedroom goes for abt 49mill and the 2bedroom duplex flat goes for abt 27mill, hmm oil companies have bought almost every flat over, boiz its tym to sit up and get our apartment now....this is d dream a serviced apartment. Each flat has a touch screen cooker, heater, washing machine, well ventilated wiv split a.c's all around hmm @ dis rate re u sure I will not become an estate or house agent lol. There's a tennis court for each cluster, an entertainment arena for each cluster which has a large swimming pool a gym and many more. At the moment internet service is still bn installed, a working elevator, d rest com and find out by you I don tire.

Cluster A High rise

A Low rise

The scariest part of the day, our trip to the 7th floor which is d highest of d skyscraper, wow d place high o, even to take pictures wahala bcos u will think ur fone will drop from ur hand down to the ground. Anyway we were on the 7th floor of the C cluster, the aerial view from here is mad, we even saw d estates generating plant just very close to civic centre in Victoria-island. They generate their own power they don't need phcn to survive, u don't get me, they have their own electricity generating plant. With the help of the ring main unit(RMU) they tap all the way from an existing power station in falomo and also an existing line from eko hotels and suites....swoosh m moving der soon, they have a sewage plant, water works and 5 1000kva generators for back up. They must pay me o for advertising for dem, ppl have already started leaving der a few sha, very scanty & I still saw one Asian pricing one...Go and grab ur copy don’t say I dint warn u b4 its too l8.

Generating plant, sewage and water works.