December 05, 2016 Monday
Location: From UAE going back to Saudi Arabia
It's now
official, after much thinking and analyzing the situation I had passed to the
captain myat my "early vacation" leave. I submitted my letter last
November 28 and took the opportunity that Captain Myat was around his office.
Good thing Captain was kind enough and didn’t ask any further question on why I
was submitting the letter.
Originally
I was planning to submit it on the 26th , but on that day I wasn't about to
make a good timing and by the time I went to captains day room it was already
closed - so I planned to go on the next day. On the following day again it was
interrupted on the fact that the ship will anchor, so Its simply postponed and
finally on the 28th around 7pm I finally got the good timing.
Felt so
relieved in submitting my "early vacation" letter , as if like a big
rock has been lifted to me - after all this company, principal and ship has
been very unpleasant and I desire only to end this contract as soon as
possible. Now I'm assured that I will be leaving this ship , of course the
final word will still come from the CF Sharp but I hardly doubt they will
disagree on my departure after the disagreements I had with them.
For
the blog (and public) information , writing an "early vacation"
doesn’t have to be fancy an printed on a printer - the only thing that is
needed is a simple paper and pen (or
pencil) and can be made via hand written.
Here is the
sample I drafted
******************************************************************
Dear Mam /
Sir
Good
day,(state my full complete
name) Undersigned on this letter would
like to inform your good office that I request a reliever and get repatriated
for early vacation, So that I can renew my expiring papers this january 2017. I
am now going on my 7th month this December and will be on the 8th month on
January next year.
I hope you
would grant my request and ask for a reliever this 3nd week of December onwards
or any week of January. Thank you for hearing my request and appeal for your
consideration
(my
name and rank)
Crew of
"Boston Eagle"
********************************************************************
A few days
have passed and during that this ship is berthed on UAE Buoy , Information came
to leak on the ship that I was trying to achieve "early vacation" . I
basically have no idea on how that info leaked and only surmise that some A.B's
here simply can't shut their mouth or even bother not to look or someone else's
paper and respect privacy, anyway this behavior is typical among Filipino's and
it's true that I did request it anyway. Besides, what is it to them if I did
made a request ?! For all I know I had already qualified on the minimum set of
requirements
During
Sundays safety meeting, it was finally disclosed to by the captain about my
true intentions on having an early vacation - IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CREW. For
me its "cats out of the bag" and it's no more secret to almost
everyone here that I'd be leaving early and now official. Initially I was the
only one who planning to have an "early vacation" but during the
discussion on the safety meeting , it was a surprise that Oiler Lester Suarez
and Pumpman Obina Mondiego expressed their intention of getting an early
vacation as well - totally unexpected for me , but whether or not folk here
joined on my stunt show, I will still go ahead of it anyway in pursuing to
getting out of this ship. Seriously I'm glad that I'm not the only one who
desire's getting out of this ship, it add more validity of my claim in getting
out of here as soon as possible.
In other
news
The
Fujairah mooring is a bit different this time, instead of the traditional dock
waiting for us - it ended up mooring in a buoy. The thing here is that mooring
in the buoy is different and very easy , just simple attach the chain from the
buoy to the local bar here on the deck and that’s it. I took the liberty in
taking pictures on the mooring in a buoy
After the
discharge on Fujairah. This ship headed out in Saudi Arabia again to load some
cargo
