Did change
my coveralls immediately and by the time I went back the whole combination
ladder had been finished rigging. Soon after I proceeded to the forward anchor
winch to prepare and heave up anchor. O.S. "Ronnie" was the one who
actually operated the machinery and heaved it up, while me was basically stuck
in removing the anchor ball. While no one was looking I secretly put a digital
camera on top the ETA appliance to film the actual heaving of anchor. It only
took a couple of minutes for me to record the work and was immediately cut off
because Bosun Payopay ordered me to wash the 2nd deck level with a fire hose, I
can't leave the camera behind so I took it with me.
While
getting the equipment for deck wash was being ready, I became absent minded
whether this hose was to be taken on which floor. By the time Bosun Payopay
arrived, he was surprised that I haven't even started yet on the work. He was
definitely upset about it. At noon we finished washing the deck in a rush
manner. Seriously I think it was a bad
idea to go working on deck maintenance while underway, I'm not certain why we
did that but obviously its not a good idea.
Mooring was
easy given that we just have to drop our mooring wires and the mooring
arrangement for Rotterdam was 3:2 (three headlines, 2 spring lines) , to make
it more easy there's a mooring boat to assist us.
Loading
cargo didn't resume until 9pm on my shift. During my watch most of the crew
here were anxiously to await the Sunny Euro agent, obviously to buy a lot
stuff. A lot of crew have already prepared their shopping list for it and mine
as well. During the wait I showed off my best talent in being fluent in English
communications on talking into the walkie talkie, apparently it was a big
mistake to do that and as a result I got suspected as a former call centre
agent. Obviously out of fear and horror I tried to deny my former association
with the BPO industry as much as possible, given that former call centre agents
here are always being targeted by jealousy and singled out for persecution. I
can't risk my safety here no matter what and don't what to repeat the mistake
for the third time. It's a good thing that I just set an alibi that I got my
English from watching too much television when I was a kid (poor excuse, but
hey it work and they bought the idea). Besides they don’t have any hard
evidence or witnesses to pin me down on my association with the BPO folk's
(technical term for call centre community)
Being a
former call centre agent in a seaman environment is a very bad idea, more bad
if your crew mates knew about it. Unless I want be an unwilling target of
discrimination, I suggest I keep my mouth shut for my safety and tone down my
English to the social degenerate level. Don’t get me wrong, I'm always proud of
my association with the BPO and being a former call centre agent , the English
skills they impart on me is the lasting legacy - a part of me that will never
fade.
On the
second day of Loading Cargo, the agent from sunny euro visited our ship and
took orders of the stuff we want to buy on their store, from the looks of it
"Sunny Euro" got a good income from us , from what I heard the
biggest spender was chief engineer Revaz Chavchanide, A.B. Marlon Layos (which
both of them bought a laptop computer) and O.S. Ronnie Macalawa (which bought a
Sound system component). On my end I just only bought a headset for my computer
, I needed to buy one since my previous headset got broken when I accidentally
got it crush under my bed.
Late on the
evening, the replacement for 2nd office Olan arrived…
Unmooring
operations went on without any problems and this ships next stop will be
Senegal africa
