Entry log : January 03, 2017 Monday
Location : Somewhere in Sri lanka, Enroute to Ras
Laffan Qatar
Another
year went and has come to pass again. For the moment New Year's celebration
here on board this ship is dry as a Sahara Desert, No celebrations , No parties
- Nothing whatsoever. Basically throws off international tradition and holiday
out of the window. It was just a plain old ordinary "rest day".
Anyway
it's not surprising because this is an Arab ship and Arab's and Muslim's
disregard International and Christian holidays, but to think this is a SHELL
company management (for all its reputation) and ignore New Year is definitely a
big surprise. To make it more worse the management here is "Indian"
which doesn’t care less about Filipino Folks
Late in the afternoon on January 01, The Management here did gave a giveaway digital watch and Maglite flash light , just to avoid the embarrassment of having nothing for new year's eve. Kind of like a patch up for the doing nothing at new year's day.
Late in the afternoon on January 01, The Management here did gave a giveaway digital watch and Maglite flash light , just to avoid the embarrassment of having nothing for new year's eve. Kind of like a patch up for the doing nothing at new year's day.
Whatever
the case I had already made up my mind not to stay here on this company and
principal, its because of this that I'm not staying, Working practices here are too difficult -
too uncomfortable to work with.
In
other news ., I've heard that the next ship captain here will be Indian (oh no
) and from the description of how Bosun Berlix describes it , it looks like
it's not a good news . Apparently from what I heard , this ship captain is a
company man and hates any form of alcohol content stuff. Crew who are caught
inside their cabin to have any stuff that have even the smallest content like
rubbing alcohol, mouthwash etc.,. will be immediately fired from the job , (the
excuse of summary dismissal is "Violation of Alcohol policy") .
To
avoid any entanglements until I finished my contract., I have to hide my
rubbing alcohol and mouth wash for the time being until this incoming Indian
captain gets off this ship (or I get out of this ship) . But thinking about
this policy , I don’t see the logical reason why such items should be banned ,
after all rubbing alcohol is used medically for treating wounds for eons now
and mouth wash is medically used also for disinfectant (getting rid of
halitosis).
Just
because he thinks he's the captain - he thinks he's so smart, high and
mighty but in reality he's just a normal
Seafarer asshole and another Indian ignorant, after all He is a Ship captain ,
NOT A CHEMIST and NEVER A SCIENTIST. Stereotype seafarers , pitiful and thinks
he knows everything in the world.
Another
bad news I could write about is that the Indian electrician broke the elevator
., the elevator was working fine until this rats ass Indian electrician messed
it up during his so called "maintenance" . Now as a result I am now
forced to walk and go up and down on the stairs ways every now and then, it
would be fine if this ship is just only a four story building like in most
liquid tankers but on my case at the moment , this ship is a seven story height
on the accommodation block alone (and more starting from the engine room and
up) , so it’s not easy to endure on my knee's using the stairways often.
Especially when I'm doing my laundry at 2am in the morning .
Working
here keeps getting worse., and my only hope now is to reach the completion of
the contract within 6 months or less., to get out of this company and
principal
