As the name
of my entry says , I had literary one month to go before my contract gets
finish and possibly go back in home. I had already given a though on what will
I do back home and most likely I'd be spending a lot of my time (and money) on
taking another sets of seminar trainings to replace the soon to be obsolete
ones (damn STCW Manila Convention 2010). It’s a shame that I didn't bagged a
lot of money on this trip given about my predicament back home, but
nevertheless I don’t regret my actions and in fact it was necessary.
Given a
thought, I'd be making a few changes on my luggage arrangement specifically on
my back pack. I had to make changes given on the rumours I heard going about
lost luggage in airports on joining crew and that Career Ship management
doesn’t even bother returning or sending it back to the crew on-board the ship.
Basically
the changes will be the my back pack luggage will now include 4 pcs of T-Shirt,
4pcs of underwear, 1 pc of shorts, 2 pairs of socks, 1 sewing kit, 2 pcs empty
cardboard box cutter case, 1 pc facemask, 1 pcs goggles and 1 set of headlight
equipment. Aside from all the electronic equipment , documents and other
miscellaneous items. Overall my hand carried luggage on the plane will be a bit
heavier.
Main reason
I considered why I had to distribute the luggage is in the event of an
emergency that my two check-in luggage gets lost on the airport, I can still
continue to function normally on work even with the most minimum of supplies.
On other
news
On the
night of November 13, 2014. 3rd mate Vergel Abalos formally gave the keys of
the bond store to me and said that I am now the one to be in charge of the bond
store after O.S. Ronnie Macalawa disembarks. He told me the basic rules and the
ins and outs of the bond store handling, basic stuff really.
I was
feeling lax that I could handle myself in the bond store, Unfortunately a day
later things turned out for the worst and I was so confused on which of the two
should I take (bond store or promotion) and ended up being an O.S. - O.T.
(promotion for short). Honestly I'm not happy on how things turned out and It's
my fault that I got myself on this situation and I should have damn turned down
that fucking promotion - now I'm scared shitless on the consequences of my
mistake, I should have insisted about being on the bond store rather than being
an A.B. . Now I had put myself in harm's way and I'm now responsible in driving
the ship and doing more work on cargo operations than ever before. I should
have been a simple O.S. doing nothing more than guard the gangway - least there
my life is simple and carefree, as long as no one escapes my watch on the
gangway , I won't have any problems.
Seriously ,
I could kick myself on why I had to accept that promotion. Now looks like that
I'm in very deep trouble. Why oh why this had to happen ?!!! I'm in totally in
crisis mode :((
In other
matters…
Messman
Montoya approached me during lunchtime regarding about giving an early notice
to the company about our soon to be finished contract. He said that we have to give the notice to the company
mid-week on November and would request that our relievers arrive at 2nd week of
December, The part that I didn’t like about messman montoya's idea was that we had to omit BOSUN Payopay, which
basically means leaving him behind. Honestly I don’t see any good reason why we
should leave him behind or even omit his name on the request besides I don’t
have any quarrel with the BOSUN to do such a thing. BOSUN Payopay is an ok guy
compared to my previous BOSUN in Cape Tallin,( I had observed BOSUN Payopay for
Three months and come to the conclusion that he's an ok guy)
Messman
Montoya reasoned that it's necessary that he should be omitted given that our
Bulgarian captain wants BOSUN Payopay to hang around a little bit longer (at
least till January until captain disembarks). In any case I'm not going to stop
Messman Montoya about his idea though I admit not agreeing on about leaving
BOSUN around - I just find it in some ways disrespectful. If the situation was
different and if the BOSUN was the infamous Zacarias Amican , then I'd let
Montoya do as what he damn pleases and even be the first one to urge to leave
the BOSUN behind - it will definitely be "EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF" for
sure.
