Again
there's another shortage of provisions and had been sick and tired ever now and
then that this is always been a problem for CSM / Career Ship management that i
have to deal with often. Free mineral water here is near depletion and it may
not be long that all of the crew might be starting to drink again on the rust
riddled water fountain. Furthermore is that the goods in the bond store are
already depleted , as in ZERO - there are no more soft drinks to drink with ,
the beer and wine are gone as well and heck even the chocolates are no more.
The only thing that's left is toiletries supply and a lot of boxes of
cigarettes. I don't want to have an idea that this ship is near starvation but
that is the current picture I am viewing on a CSM / Career Ship management
Company is that they're so stiff that they're starving their crew on the most
basic of all needs and supplies.
December 03, 2013
On the
afternoon of December 3rd, 2013 Byron knocked thru my door informing me about
some matters in the bond store regarding some expired items. Mainly on the Pop
Corn and the Centrum Tablets.
On other
matters regarding to work .... Due to poor weather conditions normal deck
maintenance work was set aside to do some indoor related work. For now instead
of putting the final coat of paint on some areas in the deck , I was put on to
another job of wash paint in the
forecastle area entrance (entrance area leading to the bosun store) for the
time being until the weather improves. Unfortunately It rained the whole day so
I'm pretty much stuck doing the same job for the whole day.
Another
thing is that I'm very much relieved that I received a confirmation email
coming from Career Ship Management that my Special allotment request has been
granted, I was worried sick lately that my request might have not reached the
shipping and even suspected that my captain haven't sent the request at all -
I'm glad I was wrong on that suspicion.
In other
news ......
Playing
"Far Cry" is getting tedious now and again 4th engineer is grumbling
about him accusing us of cheating the game. I have no idea why he accuses us of
"cheating" , in fact the multiplayer LAN mode has no cheats at all,
Its bullshit that he complains every now. This time the gaming session was
annoying, 4th engineer has gone to far and even accuses all of us in cheating
in the game. Honestly it would be better that we play the game without him
around. WHAT A SORE LOSER !!!!
Honestly he
shouldn't have came back in playing this game again and we have no plans at all
in inviting him back in playing this game. As a matter of fact the only reason
why he played this game was Chief mate invited him go tag along, but if we were
to choose , it would be better for him not to join us - its better that way.
December 04, 2013 Wednesday Starbuck's
Philippines 16th Anniversary
Due
to another persistent bad weather, work on the deck area is hindered so i ended
up just plucking out nails from a wooden crate and just bringing trash to the
engineer room (for them to incinerate) for most of the day, Aside from that i
was also assigned in crushing and grinding some bottles and glass. Wasn't that
difficult but i find it weird that this ship has to crush and process glass and
bottles trash rather than directly throwing them at sea, I think its much more
convenient if glass was to be disposed on that kind of manner - It would be
very convenient for me if that would be the case.
Late
afternoon i went again to playing "Far Cry" videogame with Messman
Ferdi, O.S. Del Monte and Chief Cook Olan. For obvious reason we didn't invite
4th engineer and frankly it was much fun playing that game without him around,
No more grumbles and Unnecessary rule's that would hinder fun in playing video
games .
While
we were busy playing video games , 3rd Mate "Byron" came in and asked
if i had already disposed of the Centrum Vitamin's cause Chief Engineer wants
them . I relied to him that its already been disposed of and it's now in the
bottom of the sea. Byron says that its no problem on it
At
night, since i haven't made preparations yet of my departure and don't know
exactly were to put my stuff yet. I decided to prepare one cardboard box and
paint it, (which of course i took from the bond store ), i went to the paint
room and asked A.B. Jay to lend me the keys to the paint room for a few
minutes. When i entered i painted the cardboard box with colour blue,
afterwards i returned the key to jay and put the cardboard box in the engine
casing to dry off.
December 05, 2013 Thursday
Most
of the crew were astonished to find out that they're number of hours in
overtime work pay was reduced from 120 hours to 85.5 hours. Its not a good news
on their part knowing that the reduced overtime pay would be less than before.
Some of them were even on an uproar and didn't even bothered to know why it was
reduced, Instead they immediately blamed 3rd mate "byron" without
knowing the full story and was spreading rumours that he was a greedy asshole
that sabotages other people's pay. Worst part is that they even ridicule him.
Oiler Donald Rogel said at the crew mess that ever since he became 3rd mate,
all paper related matter's have gone "bonkers" . Even Engine Fitter
Sano said some nasty remarks like "Byron is getting cocky now that he's
third mate"
Personally
I'm on "byron's" side and i don't think they should have said
inappropriate remarks without knowing the full story, Its very unfair that
"Byron" was being judged like that.
Problem with us Filipino's is that we let our mouths do the thinking
instead of using our rational brain - Damn fucking Compatriots , mouth is used
for talking and the brain is used for thinking.
Late
at night, it was found out via Microsoft email client that the reduction of
overtime working hours came from Career / CSM ship management (see previous journal entry titled "THE
DETAILS" ) and Byron has got nothing to do with it.
In
other related matters.......
Haven't
noticed until recently that i had only at least one and a half months of stay
here at Cape Tallin, Couldn't imagine that I had been writing for so long now ,
as in 7 months - Maybe I haven't noticed the time that passed because i was so
busy and caught up going toe to toe against them and it was really an arduous
task. I can't imagine that i had been thru a blabber mouth O.S. And chief
cook (O.S. Xerxes Hall and Chief Cook
Roberto Peneranda) , a lordliness 3rd mate, 2nd mate and Bosun ( 3rd mate
corales , 2nd officer Renan Olis , Bosun Zacarias Amican ) , a cocky A.B. (
A.B. Ronald Caldona) , and an ill mannered rude Pump man ( Pump man Nilo
Pastrana ). Handling those bastards was really a good time killer and it
certainly feels like just yesterday that i got here Onboard - guess i really
got my hands full with them. Anyway its over now and most of this sons of a
bitches crew mates have already been disposed of , Now its only a small time of
waiting and I'd be home soon again seeing mom and dad , along with sis and my
pet cats - I'm very anxious to get home and see how are they doing.
