Blog
Entry: October 22, 2016 Saturday
Location :
Enroute to Fujairah UAE
It's
been a week that this ship is adrift in middle of the Indian Ocean, and three
weeks since we left the ship yard on Singapore (to be specific 22 days) . There
has been no news yet when this ship will be going aside from rough speculation
that it might be headed to the middle east to load some cargo,
For the
moment these past 22 days have been peaceful and doing the same old routine
work of deck maintenance for me such as painting , in some occasions I would
help Pump man on his usual work in the Pump room maintenance. Most of the time
I'm just left to do work in housekeeping part.
Lately I
had been thinking of forming a face book group, something that is very similar
to the successful Wiki Leaks website - only it’s a Philippine Maritime
Version. Exactly like a public
disclosure / Intelligence Group for Filipino sailors, I had been long thinking
about this because of the suppression of freedom of speech and idea's in this
sector. Probably because of my recent dissatisfaction on how the way I was
treated by UFS "Seaman's Union" over my discrimination complaints
against CF Sharp. They said something that my accusations were baseless and
that I was just simply a "troublemaker" , they even threaten me when
I was just telling the truth - to simply put they were very bias to CF Sharp ,
despite self-proclaiming themselves as "Seaman's Union" . Anyway it
doesn’t matter anymore. What matters is that I'm making my own group , one that
is more transparent and not bias, or even influenced by abusive shipping
companies here and its main purpose is to provide helpful information and warn
Filipino sailors . Currently I'm still thinking of a name to call this group.
In other
news..
Lately
I had been experiencing some suspicious "add friends" on my social
media account , what more suspicious is that it goes in the same manner that a
review agency or company of some sort wants to add me as a friend. Apparently I
suspect that this is some form of surveillance of some kind, (likely from whom I made enemies with recently). I suspect this might came from CF Sharp and would be
doing "Monitoring" if I posted anything that is against them. Heck they even "followed" my
twitter account, which I blocked the user from ever
Well sorry
to disappoint this mother fucker, do they think I'm that stupid ?! Seriously
their doing a piss poor job when it comes to monitoring and doing surveillance
on employee's, I don’t add people who I don’t know personally on my
professional social media accounts. So if they really want to find
"dirt" on my accounts then they have to be more creative otherwise
their just stalking.
In news
related to work
There has
now been an update on the voyage travel of this ship - and it doesn’t look
pretty. From what I head on Deck Cadet "James" (British National) ,
the ship will have a loading voyages from Fujairah UAE , then will go to Saudi
Arabia and finally somewhere in Pakistan. To sum it up , it’s a middle east
voyage.
Based
on the weather service online (check
google), the weather in the middle east
should be a bit cooler now compared to last time this ship was here, like
somewhere in the 28 degrees Celsius lowest and highest is around 33 to 35
degrees Celsius (like summer weather in
the Philippines) . I do hope the weather
forecast is accurate, or else I am doomed again on the hot weather.
Speaking of
which , my private water storage in now down 50 percent after a month. Nothing
unusual on that part and I have already stocked up water and food supplies for
two months , its normal that the remaining is already half however the problem
is about replenishing the water. The water filter is still up to now working
properly and produces little water, barely enough to fill a liter.
