April
09, 2015 Thursday
Life
under a tyrant dictator can all be but challenging, On a ship ratings and
officers are at the mercy of a depriving captain who fancies himself as god.
Seriously these are one of the reasons why I encourage Filipino's not to take a
job as a sailor or study a college course called B.S.M.T. (bachelor of science
in marine transportation). Incoming college students and High school students
are too damn good to deserve this rotten kind of life, and I feel sorry for
them to condemn themselves on this life of hardship.
A
lot of people wonder on what kind of society sailors live on-board a ship, like
I said I can only summarize it that it's an autocratic dictatorship and nothing
more, some ships have a benign dictatorship but nevertheless ITS STILL AN
AUTOCRATIC form of society with no room for any form democratic kind of system.
A person taking this course is basically condemning himself / herself on a life
of coveralls and closed spaced dwelling and strip all individual freedom
normally a society will offer. Basically sailors nowadays are just prisoners
with a salary and more like a feeling that you're going into jail, trading off
and sacrificing years of life and freedom for money.
On
a ship, there are all sorts of evil and wicked people out here, Filipino's and
foreign nationals alike. If a worker is assigned on a unfortunate ship who has
a kind of captain that violates basic human right and civil liberties, he is in
one hell of a ride. It's unfortunate that on my situation here the captain here
is very depriving on one of the most basic human necessities known to man -
WATER.
Can
you believe that !? Water, For now based on the information I heard. Captain
Sorin Sageta is one depriving bastard and even the laundry is not spared at all
on his wrath and this corroborates testaments said by Messman Montaya in Conti
Greenland few months ago that "Sorin" has a laundry schedule of twice
per week (or none at all if there's a work operation at port) and as a result
laundry is piling up not because the crew here are lazy to wash to them but
because the laundry room is locked up. According to my co-workers and from what
I'm observing first hand, laundry room hasn't been opened for a more than a
week ( up to now while writing this) and some of them are forced to wash their
clothes by hand inside their cabins. Worst is that it's not only the laundry
that suffers the most , even clean drinkable bottled water is restricted to the
crew.
It
is only my conclusion that the remaining three months with him around will be
filled with nothing more than pure torture and suffering. For now potable and
clean water is scare on this ship despite the availability, and I bet this is
just only the beginning for the four month long tyrannical rule of
"Sorin" on this ship and more out of this world hardship will come in
the days ahead. I have no idea why this captain impose this kind of
restrictions on laundry given that there's water all around the ship, and I had
been into a CONTI NSB type of ship previously and the structure of these kinds
of ship has sufficient volume of water enough not to impose this water
restriction. Anyway it's only a conclusion that the logical answer is that this
current ship captain is a neurotic one who has succumb to mental disease. A
social degenerate to simply say.
One
of my co-workers here say that this captain was not as ruthless as before and
that he changed on a lesser extent of being wicked after having a heart attack,
Honestly I beg to disagree on his impression because I have a saying "ONCE
A BASTARD WILL ALWAYS BE A BASTARD" . On my perception my co-worker only
says that Captain Sorin is less vicious because of the fact that he has only
been around on this ship a month and that he's wickedness hasn't reach full
blast yet, and my rough estimate is that it will take another month to reach
its full height.
Good
thing despite this challenges, my ingenuity is a bit advance for an average
sailor and giving me an edge that despite this so called unnecessary water
discipline, I can still wash my clothes and coveralls without ever using the
laundry room. Unknown to them I brought along laundry soaps on my luggage for
the journey plus a laundry brush to wash my clothes, So basically my supplies
could last up at least 3 months based on the soap I'm carrying. Aside from that
I'm already experienced in handling this situation given that I had already
encountered this kind of situation in "CAPE TALLIN" ship a few years
ago.
Aside
from having problems with the water , All of a sudden Sundays off work was
cancelled and we were doing basically the usual maintenance work. The captain
reasoned out why Sundays work off was cancelled was because of the fact that
this ship will be undergoing some sort of internal audit from NSB and probably
were expecting guest when this ship arrives in Netherlands , so this
"ship" has basically have to prepare for the inspections.
NEWS
UPDATE
After
two weeks (and a month on the other crew) , the laundry room has finally opened
up hallelujah ! I was already in the brink of washing my clothes and coveralls
using the method I devised back in CAPE TALLIN ages ago.
