April 26, 2015 Sunday
Now
that this ship is headed off back again to Tarragona, Spain to load some cargo.
People here are still wondering on why the hell is the laundry room still
closed at this time ??? Basically I have no idea why the hell there's a strict
laundry schedule in the first place, and I couldn't say that the ship structure
here can hold only a limited amount of water since this is ship is identical to
conti Greenland when it comes to structure and back on that ship I never had
any problems of water shortage - plus surely the ocean is big enough to
accommodate (and generate) fresh water supply for everybody's basic needs like
washing clothes and taking a bath, so absolutely there no need for unnecessary
restrictions on water . Its only plausible that the management here (I'm
referring to the captain) is very depriving one and a no good twisted hoarder.
In
the meantime, this ship had a finally a days off on Sundays. As in totally no
work to be doing at all , Unfortunately I didn't get to enjoy it that much
given that this ship is currently transiting Biscay seas area (north of France)
which is notorious among sailors to have rough seas. Even experienced sailors
experience sea sickness in this area due to high waves.
In
the afternoon I got bored and went outside my cabin to the crew mess to have
some green tea , from there I saw electrician felix rodriguez and chief cook
regidor pineda having a coffee chat.
Basically there discussing if this ship will ever go to America after loading
cargo from Tarragona, Spain. Rumours that some Conti ships have already went
there to renew their inspection with the U.S. and it's likely that this ship
might go there to do the same.
Finding
that the discussion is entertaining , I decided to stay a bit longer and listen
to their chat. Then suddenly the conversation went towards me and out of
surprise Chief cook asked me if worked previously before in a call centre, I
told him yes I did work before there and it was a long time ago before I became
a sailor. I'm not comfortable in discussing the details and never opened that
kind of topic in front. As a matter of fact I even hid my association with my
previous job to being a sailor for fear of persecution and discrimination from
my co-worker sailors.
For
me it's just simply taboo in even mentioning that when I'm working as a
sailor,. I made it a rule never to mention any personal details about my life
in this autocratic totalitarian homogeneous dictatorship work environment - I
tried being transparent about my previous work before and it turned out to be a
disaster which eventually lead to my discrimination and persecution. The same
thing happened also in A.B. Dondonilla when he was too lax about his personal
details (another sailor I met who previously worked as a call centre). He got
badly persecuted in Cape Tallin. Anyway I never mention such details here in
Conti Agulhas, and was totally surprise that Chief cook Pineda even mentioned
that and how did he knew of such information ? I only suspect that 3rd mate
Corales is blabber mouthing again on my background, after all most folks who
came from Cape Tallin knew of my background (another story I will tell later on
how they found out). I better be careful around and that this info might spread
around this ship.
In
other news…
Sunday
just came and went , and with me just confined on my cabin and resting from the
nasty rolling and pitching motion of this ship. I'm not really comfortable with
this but apparently there's not much I could do about this and this ship is
transiting Biscay bay. Only thing I could do is sit this one out and hope that
this rough sea is over soon. According to rumours this ship should be out in
biscay by Monday.
By
Monday maintenance work was briefly interrupted in helping out 3rd mate Corales
do a pressure test on all fire hoses. Basically it was just a basic job of
grabbing and connecting all those fire hoses but took half a day all in all.
Worst was that Captain Sorin went to the deck area to personally check on what
we were exactly doing and meddle on the job. Captain Sorin is starting to get
on our nerves meddling on our work and dumping even more task for us to work
with - plus take note he hovers around us like a helicopter during working
hours, trying to see if were doing something or not.
For
some reason folks around here nicknamed him "COBRA" , I asked O.S.
Bantic why they called him cobra , and he answered was because his face looks
like a reptile. (and I thought it was because his manners or treatment to the
crew, referring that he's poisonous on the working environment). Hopefully by
Tuesday this ship will reach its destination in Taragona, Spain at night time
and from what I heard , its berthing upon arrival scenario. From there I'd find
out what will the next location this ship will be heading.
