It's About Local Governments: Trip to Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate

It's such a beneficial trip for me to visit the Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate in Rayong province. The trip is part of the EIA training donored by the TIGA and JIGA incorporate with the Scince and Natural Resource Ministry. We stayed in Baron Beach Hotel locating in the middle of Pataya City. Our first visiting was at the City of Pattaya to hear the brief presenting on City Planning and Waste Disposal Management Plan of the city. We got the overal perspective of the city and just kwen how the city was. Next day we start off to survey the Motorway Project where the project had several impacts to differnt groups and stakeholders. The case of Motorway is interesting in term of various affected group to consider, the different mitigation measures the different government agencies taken responed on that matters. Some of us took the rest of the day continuing to observe people way of living during the night time till dawn.

I myself have just realised that the Pattaya Beach is beautiful when sat down and relaxed on the beach before the sun went down to the see. Someone said " Pataya never sleep" I didn't surprise since the sound of music came into my bedroom throughout the night. Look at people's faces in the morning was looklike sleepless faces, perfect drunk guys.

At Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate, we visited the petrochemical factories where I have found a lot of evidence on Human Resource Management, Knowledge Management. Additionally, the safty and Emergency unit was the very effective one. Advanced ICT brought into the operation as a key tool for controling and monitoring, for instance, the GIS. It's good to bring in their expereinces to apply to my office. So, I took several photo including prohibit area.

Petroleum Company Staffs presented a lot of technical things about the company operational implementation and I felt it was not relevant to my knowledge. I then walked out of the lecture romm pretending that I was going to the toilet but sitting down on the losy sofa for relaxing. Chatting with some friends, drinking a good coffee (free service) in the common room near the lecture room and pretending again that I was the company staff so that I could lie down longer.

The Bus drove back to Bangkog and arrived at about 6.00 pm. Most of us looked tried nevertheless they were going to have a big party that day. Oh my god! We're energetic hygines human kind and last long life. The groups' energy always charged on real time, but I didn't bring the charger with me. So, I better get back home.