For
the moment my work involves painting some of the steam pipes with silicon black
paint - a type of heat resistant tape. Took me a while to full paint those
"heating pipes" given it has tons of nooks and crannies
It’s
a good thing that this ship is almost practically new (barely 2 years old)
practically new and maintenance is not much of a problem, and mostly I'm just
left painting some area in the deck for two months now. Probably if I should
compare my work on all my previous "Crude tankers" - working on this
ship is probably the lightest of all maintenance work I have done.
I
guess probably that work here on ship will mostly be that for the whole 8 month
long stay here until my contract is finished somewhere in April.
Later
on work , we had a pressure test on the cargo pipes of this ship. To my
annoyance some of my co-worker are trying to con their way again to dodge the
work they were paid for. This time they're trying to use me as a ruse for it.
Making an excuse saying that It's about time I learn some of the work (… their
own work) made during pressure test. I didn’t buy on what they were saying and
knew from the start on their intentions, they wanted to escape on their work
and dump all their task to me. ( in tagalog,
"magulang" sa trabaho)
I
didn’t made a wrong guess when the work started. While I was busy turning one
wheel to another on orders from the radio , I could just see them sitting their
lazy fat asses doing nothing while I do all the work., and this wasn't the
insulting part yet. The infuriating part was they have the guts to joke about
on how slow my response was in radio, which isn't the case . It might be their
impression , but in reality I was listening carefully first before I
respond.
I
guess each company or ship has its own lazy pricks of crews, I would mind them
being lazy but deceiving other people and letting them do their jobs is another
story.
In
other matters…
There's
a rumor a heard from fitter during lunch that this ship maybe bound for the dry
docks by march ., Personally I don’t think this ship will go that early for the
dry docks , after all this ship is just newly built - aside from that if this
ship does indeed go to the dry dock shipyard for maintenance ,it will be
probably be (and most likely) be beyond march and I'm already long gone ,
another reason why I think its impossible in march is that TCC is quite of a stingy company from my
perception, I don’t personally think that march will be the dry dock time for
this ship and the company will maximize its profits first before they head out
on their ship maintenance.
Last
and foremost reason I could think of is that its possible that fitter is just
joking around.
Later
in the afternoon after finishing the daily maintenance , I tried to watch an
anime as entertainment since I typically just stay just inside my cabin - I
could have been hanging out in the smoking room watching regular TV and be more
social , but how can I be social when every time I go to the smoking area to
watch TV , people there just mock me , or if not ask questions about my
personal life and interrupt my watching (which annoys me most) . I lost
interest in going there and would just practically stay in my cabin and watch
anime. Besides that , My personal space setup on my cabin is mostly for the
purpose of being solitary and isolation. If it were not for the problems in
prohibiting bring along shoes and coverall inside cabins, I would have been 100
percent isolated from them.
Lately
watching anime has been my hobby (aside from updating this blog) , and I recently finished "ladies X
butler" title. My interest in anime is almost everything except the
"shonen" type which is mostly for kids (such popular examples are
"dragon ball z" , One Piece, Bleach, Naruto etc.). I go for romance,
action, sci-fi and harem types or anime.
I watch anime because I had problems in reading novels and somehow every
time I read it , I end up having a head ache or feeling sleepy plus I lack the
"visual imagination" when it comes to novels, I really struggle to
understood on what is written in the novel , So I much prefer seeing things
rather than reading. I understand things there more.
If
only anime's could adopt and animate the variety of stories written on western
novels (like tom Clancy's , Sidney Shelton, Michael cricton, Stephen king and others etc.) then , I could really say
that I would be a diehard fanatic of anime.
