LOG ENTRY : June 03, 2016 Friday
Recently
received news via SMS roaming that my dad recently died from cardiac arrest. I
haven't known the details yet on his demise and was only informed by my younger
sister. Given with the limitations of communications here, I couldn't get even
the details, The only thing I knew about is that it was abrupt. Nobody both me and people on the
house expected that this would happen, Dad was despite suffering a stroke 15
years ago which paralyze half his body and having a fracture on the leg two
years ago was more physically fit for his health to last at least 2 decades.
Aside from
that my movement is restricted here, being put on a "slave ship" were
working situation here are extreme and worst that I had previously faced
before. Recent news now has informed me that working hours has increased from
the usual 8am to 5pm, now to 6:30am till 5:30pm - totaling of about 11 full
hours from Monday to Saturday. Basically not enough time to attend to my
personal needs and maintenance of my equipment, Now I'm starting to figure out
why Majority of Filipino's hate Indian management - definitely unfair and
inhuman to Filipino standards. If I recall correct, working conditions here are
now violating the contract I signed up with which was supposedly working
conditions are 8am to 5pm and Saturdays are half day work ONLY and Sundays ARE
REST DAYS. Probably I suspect there is more disaster to come that will test my
endurance and versatility to breaking point.
I wanted to
grieve a lot for my loss - but right now , I don’t have the luxury of doing it
and have to get out of this ship first before I can do anything, I had to work
out on my safety first before attending to dad.
This
contract was basically from the start full of lies and deceit, people from Cf
Sharp and Norstar had been lying on the details just to lure people on signing
up for their unfair terms and if I had known this earlier I would have instead
opted paying the 100 U.S. Dollars debt I had in cash rather than face this much
hardship. I came to much obsessed on the cost and ignored the general safety of
my well-being and now I'm responsible for this shit storm I'm facing. I am
thinking this now because if I haven't proceeded , I could have still be seeing
my dad right now and enjoying every memorable moment. Now the only thing left
for me is see his grave stone when I get back home.
By the time
writing this, dad would have been almost two weeks dead by now. Two weeks that
I had been grieving but do not have the indulgence given with the hardship
situation I'm facing with, I have to concentrate on how to get the fuck off on
this ship.
