FEBRUARY 16, 2014 Monday
Wasn't exactly sure on Sunday if their is work or a rest day, So
just to confirm i hanged out in the crew mess for a while until i was
absolutely sure that it was really a rest day. I wont really go to so much
trouble in confirming if it was a rest day or not if the chief mate wasn't Mr.Bezruchko , If it was Chief mate nagorny - It's
definitely a 100 percent rest day on Sundays.
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| Behold The EPES turkish Beer |
We discussed about me taking a licensure exam after this. Maybe
Fitter sano is right taking a licensure exam and getting a license may benefit
me on the long run, after all at least any company could not dispose me easily
if I have one.
On the latter part of the day, Finally got to clean my cabin after
so many months ignoring it - specifically on my toilet area. Well i figured
that I guess maybe before i disembark onboard this ship i better leave my cabin
in shape for my successor.
Aside from cleaning my cabin , I also tested out the outfit I'm
going to wear on my disembarkation day. I look glamorous on the outfit wearing
semi formal clothes and with a tie on, and i bet my co-workers are going to be
very jealous on it when i wore them.
In other news on Sunday
I finally finished playing the story of mode on the video game
"Far cry 2" , so what can i say about it ? Well I'm not exactly sure
if I got the good ending at all in this game, the end story on my game is that
I had killed all my buddies over some few pieces of rock (diamonds) , let the
bad guy named "Jackal" got away and made a self sacrifice by blowing
myself up in the cliff , blocking the accesses to cliff to the horde of other
bad guys planning to go genocidal on helpless citizens (so that civilians can get out of the
border).
I'm not so sure at all that i got the good ending nor if the story
on this video game is non linear. Anyway bottom line is that I've finished the
game.
On Tuesday February 18, 2014. The weather wasn't really going well
in the morning and there was heavy fog yet again, it was even doubtful that
berthing might be cancelled and when i came to work it was indeed cancelled -
well its more called a delayed rather than cancel and at around 12:30 Pm, O.S.
Del Monte knocked to my cabin door and said that were going to heave up anchor
and be berthing soon. As expected I
quickly dresses in coveralls and got down to business.
After the anchor was successfully heaved up. We went to the crew
mess to have a coffee break and wait further orders. Some how this ship was
moving very slow and took four hours for it to reach the destination point, and
obviously we were there in the crew mess waiting.
Ship that was berthed at is named "NS Lion" another SCF
company ship (it's a ship to ship berthing ops) . It has a deep color red hull
like the red we typically see in primer paints here onboard, and probably that
ship is Korean made based on its structure.
Before berthing "Bullfrog" Amican lectures me something
about a load line, ( as if i don't know what it is, I already know that during
my college years on where its located , what's it used for and what the symbol
letters mean ) . I just let him talk and talk all that shit about it , Funny he
lectures me on something as if like i was an ignorant illiterate and him
implying that he's a "superior intellectual guy" - Seriously I do
know better that "Bull Frog" Amican is no better off than any other
regular joe around here and if he knows so much , how come he ended up being a
BOSUN rather than a ship officer eh ??!
Asshole just plainly have an EGO problem.
During berthing, the Russian third mate said that i should now throw
the heavy line , but on my rough estimation it was a few meters short on my
throwing reach, i told him that about it and ignored it , saying it will be
fine. I did throw the heaving line anyway to the other ship and my estimation
was correct , it didn't make it on the other side and was probably 2 to 6
meters short of the target and as a result i had to coil back again the heaving
and throw it one more time. O.S. Del Monte said he like to take a shot on the
heaving line and i gave him the rope.
This time the distance between our ship and NS lion was so close
that missing it will be impossible, as expected the end of the heaving line
made it on the deck of NS lion and tied it to their messenger line (rope used
to drag the mooring line). Then afterward we pulled our heaving line and tied
it up on our Mooring lines - spring lines to be specific. The mooring
arrangement on our STS ops is 4 : 2 just like before. After an hour it mooring
ops was finished.
Soon after the mooring ops, I went to the mid ship manifold area to
prepare the fire fighting equipment and SOPEP , as well as the ISPS box (as
part of my work description as an O.S.). When i came there it was already
prepared and basically i was left to do nothing for a while, I roamed for a few
minutes finding any work when i saw chief mate Bezruchko having a conversation
on some crew of NS lion , there was also BOSUN AMICAN and 2nd officer
"Bastard - O" .
Apparently from what i heard NS Lion doesn't have any
"baskets" at all to carry some of the personnel from their ship to
ours and they suggest that we should use our
accommodation gangway as a means of a walkway. Unfortunately it wasn't
possible given the circumstances and it would be very dangerous to do so and
there's a possibility that people would fall from there. In the end the crew of
NS lion used an improvised version of a basket to carry their people around,
they used a wooden box with a safety net that would be lifted by their crane.
Honestly the basket box really looks more of like a coffin rather than a basket
when looked at.
After my watch, I went ahead to my cabin to fix a few other stuff
and had difficulty sleeping and looks like i paid the price on not resting, as
during my midnight watch i was feeling the severe effects of sleep deprivation.
To make it short i was very dizzy and wasn't feeling well on that time, to make
it more complicated the temperature dropped down again and there was another
fog coming by. Good thing there wasn't much work to go around with.
On the late part of my watch, A.B. Mallorca heard a shout coming the
accommodation direction and when he came out to check it , he saw it was 2nd
officer "Bastard - O" yelling and shouting "Where's your
radio" . Immediately A.B. Mallorca checked out his radio and it was dead
apparently maybe because it was low on the batteries awhile ago, he checked
mine and i had the same problems as well on the radio. He immediately sent me
out to replace both of our radio's batteries in the CCR and when i was in the
room , I saw 2nd Officer "Bastard - O" and immediately let out a furious words,
shouting in tagalog saying "Tatanga tanga kasi , Palitan nyo battery
nyo" , not exactly sure the exact translation in tagalog but it sounded
more like , "Change your battery, you incompetent imbecile" . I was
going to let out a few words but i figured , he's not going to be my problem
anymore in the next couple of days since I'm disembarking and low life cunt's
like him are not worth it, So i just turned my back on him the CCR and ignored
him.
Back in the cargo manifold area , A.B. Homer Mallorca asked what
happened on the CCR , i just gave him a reply that its nothing serious and 2nd
officer is bitchy as always.
At around 6pm NS lion operation were finished and the whole mooring
crew was finished in the unmooring operations, we were in a hurry putting back
again the mooring ropes and wire back , expecting that another berthing
operations to FCS valdimir tikhonov would commence right after our unmooring
with NS LION. Unfortunately much to our dismay mooring was cancelled for now
and this ship anchored about 1.5 miles away from Vladimir Tikhonov. From what
in heard we wont berth for now due to the late schedule.
