Oct 31 2008
TGIF
It’s my last day of work for this week. It’s forty past six AM and I just got back from work. I can’t go to sleep yet so I better put into words what’s in mind right now. These past two nights I was putting the foil cap on the bottles. The machine placed the cork in the bottle, I and my team, would then put the foil cap and then it passes through a fiery steel which burns the foil sealing the bottle. Last night the machines were miraculously working properly most of the time and I thought to myself, “Is this gonna go on for three hours? I would surely be dead by morning.” 
I like it when the machines malfunction from time to time like the other night. First the cork machine stopped, 20 minutes later the bottles tipped, anothe half an hour later the filling machine stops. These accidentals are so much welcome because they give us a couple of minutes to stretch our backs. I keep thinking however that the managers wouldn’t probably be happy to see the machines act up so often. But like I said if everything goes well in between breaks which is three hours then I would be dead. Last night my eyes were like spinning staring at the constantly moving bottles. Gladly though it was only good in the beginning. As the hour progresses the machines keep working but we make the accidentals. When someone accidentally put two foil caps, the bottle will be too high to pass through the fiery sealant. As a result the bottle will tip and will cause a domino effect. So they had to stop either the filling machine or the cork machine so the bottles will not get stuck like a traffic jam in Bangkok on Friday night.
