Never
occurred to me that I'd be here in the Philippines this long., but then again
maybe it is a blessing that I'm here after all. For now while writing this I
will be going in on my fourth month here in the Philippines.
I would
have been searching for a job right now but I was lately been set back because
I suffered another illness (and the reason why I haven't wrote on my blog
lately) with eczema ., the skin infection got worst and by the time I sought
help on the hospital - I could even barely walk from the severity. Good thing
the doctors on Marikina Valley hospital was kind enough to accommodate and
entertain my query about my health. They said that my eczema has gotten worst
and baldy infected that they have to put me on multiple antibiotic meds and in
combination with topical steroids.
Within a
short span of two days , both my feet healed and the bleeding stopped (which
plagued my for two weeks) . Thanks to the violet colored liquid they gave me
and I had to put in the bucket and soak my feet with it for twice a day. Also
there have been no skin blisters appearing when I started the treatment.,
(before my lesions started becoming lesion a small skin blisters usually
appear). To simply say it - my health was recovering when I started the
treatment.
Back in the
old days ., I used to treat my eczema attacks with the usual table salt. I just
sprinkled the salt on the affected area and bandage it for a couple of days and
let it heal . However on this recent outbreak ., it looks like salt was
ineffective in controlling it and mad it more worst to the point that bleeding
on my lesion didn’t stop and most of the time I had to change bandages once a
day because it was soaking wet with blood serum. The wound never healed at all.
After a
week of antibiotic treatment., I would go back again to the dermatologist and
they would check if my condition has improved or if I needed another extra shot
of something
In other
news …
Recently I
had experimented on ordering online for supplies and see for myself if this
"lazada" (like ebay version of the philippines) does really work went
it comes to online shopping. I had tested the "Cat ears" hat which
they had been selling., and after a few days putting my order online - I
eventually came and I was thrilled to have it around. In other words it was a
success ordering stuff online at lazada. Given with these success ., I'm
planning to order more stuff in the future given that there are some rare hard
to find items that can only be found on the online store in lazada. Perhaps I'm
planning to get my work related equipment on that store, rather than search
aimless on item that are hard to find in actual store to store search
In other
equipment news ….
Given on my
previous entanglements on my previous ship. I will be making changes on the
overall electronic equipment I'd be bringing (if ever ) once I get back
onboard. The changes will include that all my gadgets should be battery
operated., from what I learned is that ship electric supply is not exactly
stable not even guaranteed to be always there on the time and there's a
possibility (thought very small) that It would damage electronic equipment.
Such as the case I had encountered on MT Eagle Boston. So to make things safe
for me all the gadgets that I would be bringing along would have to be battery
operated and the only thing that I will need the main socket supply is use for
recharging this gadgets. Whether it will be a laptop or as simple as a cellphone
., every gadget I should bring should be a battery operated one
In other
news related to this …
Recently my
4TB hard drive broke down - now the reason why it broke down was it was due to
ants attacking the power cord , yes believe it or not its ants - the tiny
little creatures who we always typically see in the kitchen. Now I'm not
exactly sure why those ants decided to attack my hard drive ., given that its
non-organic at all to begin with. I had done some research on the net and see
why do these critters attack electronic gadgets and here's what I found out.
*ants are
somehow attracted to EM fields emitted by gadgets and they do sense it.
*it is not
clearly known even to scientist why ants attack electronic gadgets , but they
do speculate that while they forage and wander off inside gadgets , they get
electrocuted by the circuitry and as they get zapped they send out pheromones
which meant that they are being "attacked and need help" thus the
smell attract more ants to help them out and as a result it swarms the harmless
electronic device and mistake it as an "enemy" eventually as the
device gets flooded with ants ., it short circuits because the bodies of dead
ants that got electrocuted still conducts electricity.
No matter
what is the clear reason why ants attacked my hard drive ., fact is that my
external hard drive is unusable at the moment and I had to find an electric
adaptor replacement for it. Plus on the fact that I can't access data inside my
hard drive without the electric supply. All those media data I had accumulated
within those years have been gone to waste because of that insect attack. The
remedy I could only think of for now is to have the A/C adaptor replaced.
