September
08, 2018 Saturday
Enroute
to West Australia
As
this ship proceeds to Perth , west Australia. We spent the travel time in doing
maintenance work, doing the usual task. As for me I am off doing the regular
"Chipping, Brushing and Painting" loop work. There's one minor
mistake I made during maintenance work and that is that I have mistaken that
"CMP marine thinner" was the
same as a Paint thinner, turns out that I should use the red can rather than
the blue can. The paint turned out to be blobby , and I had to dispose it.
Anyway it’s a minor mistake.
According
to the latest word I heard that this ship will arrive in Australia on the 11th
of September by early morning.
Given
that this ship will arrive on soon on Australian waters, I already saw on the
stairway an order form for Internet simcards and top up loads for the crew, we
had to simply just write down on how many one should order. For me I order a
simcard and two top up loads. Probably I
should get a decent internet connection while in Australia (assuming that this
internet sim card works), and perhaps I could get updates and latest news in
the social media and check out the latest games in Nintendo switch for
download. I had been off the grid for a month now and would be interested to
see on how are things going on. I wonder
on what is the latest update on my Facebook and twitter account ?
On
work related news …
The
new muster list duties came out, and apparently it's always a joke that the new
duties im aside with will also be the hardest. Anyway as long as I figured out
on how to do it , then it won't be a problem for me until I signed off from
this ship. There are also a few minor changes in the muster list, now the
starboard quarter will be the main muster list station instead of being port
side.
By
the way I'm surprised to see that they changed the muster list. From what I
heard on the most recent safety meeting as said by the captain that
"muster list cannot be changed as it is written in the ships safety manual
and approved classification design". Now a week later , it looks like that
the captain is just horse shitting people and that muster list can be changed.
Anyway I'm not surprised that things tune will start to changed - after all the
captain is an "Uwak" and as far as I know "uwaks" are
always obnoxious to filipino's
In
other news ….
There's
a rumor going on that this ship might head off to south korea, Incheon. But if
I based on the records on where this ship has been - there is no record that it
ever went to Korea, besides that in thinking I never knew that south Korea has
oil. Probably this is all just a "you wish" factor spreading out, as
far as I can tell this ship will never leave south east asia and its
PERMANENTLY stationed here, only going to area like Malaysia, Indonesia,
Thailand and Singapore nothing more beyond that aside from Fujairah, UAE.
If
it does go to south Korea (although I highly find it doubtful) , the voyage
plan might be that we get oil somewhere in Malaysia then drop it off in south
Korea. After that I don’t know any place where it can get oil in east Asia. The
only thing concrete here in this that this ships "home base" will
always be Australia as BP Oil company have chartered this ship.
In
other news ….
Its
O.S. "Chris" birthday and almost the whole Filipino crew gathered in
the smoking room to celebrate or at least hang out. There's the typical karaoke
and people here keep pushing me to sing,
I
did sing two songs. One is more like a pop song and the other is a local kids
song from the Philippines just to quell the annoyance of the crowd and I
thought singing was enough to shut them up ., it turns out that they started
asking more personal question about my life. Obvious I don’t talk about my
personal life onboard and never will - I just have a personal rule of never to
talk about it and keep things always in the professional level.
Aside
from that I can never be sure that not none among them is a gossiper, and as
far as I can based on my experience Filipino sailors are one of the most gossip
mongering kind of folk. I am never comfortable divulging personal information
about myself nor interested in hearing personal information about other people.
Anyway if things are unavoidable , I just give false personal information about
myself. So that even if they do gossip I'm comfortable that those gossips
aren't true. A counter gossip tactic I had learned during my years as a sailor.
After
that singing , I just made an excuse to leave the area saying that I had some
things that I forgot to do. Good thing I'm very good in hiding my annoyance
over that matter.
