As
I continue to live and struggle by on a "day to day" basis given of my
predicament. I had been making a lot of future plans , some of which are
probably will be helpful on a long term basis. I had been planning on expanding
some equipment that I will use on the civilian life once this seafaring career
is over in a few year's time. Maybe because I wanted a smooth transition from
an OFW style of lifestyle to a more civilian land base kind, I don’t want to
get caught having a difficult position of starting all over again - So I had to
advance at least the equipment I will be using in a few years time ahead.
As
an added humor , I went to pack a set of clothes and named it "Goodbye
HUNTER Saga kit" ., which I will
wear for disembarkation , when the time comes.
For
now on work , I had to do the usual maintenance kind of work although having a
job order (and getting one) is the most difficult part of the day. For now I'm
left cleaning stains off on the ship fish blake.
After
work , I'm left to do whatever I want which mostly ends up me playing video
games on the PC , or just surfing and checking out my social media account or
probably just routinely cleaning up my personal working equipment. Speaking of
which as for today I was basically playing a video game on the PC , when Merk
knocked to my cabin door and said I need to go to the crew recreation room and
that the crew were having a sort of meeting.
when i went there I found out what the meeting was all along , turns out that the basketball ball they bought on Singapore turns out to be missing and they had no idea who took it, everyone was so busy during that day that nobody check it and was only later found to be missing. The discussion dragged on and led to doing a cabin search for each Filipino crew member , (including my cabin) but the ball wasn’t found, during the search nobody on the recreation room was allowed to leave and was just called one by one when their cabins were being search (to serve as witness) . They suspect either the Indian chief engineer took it or sabotage it and thrown it over board.
During
the search I was worried on the cabin search not because of the basketball ball
, but because of something else and they might found out that the missing
headlight months ago would be found on my luggage. Fortunately for me , the
headlight was inside on one of my pouch bags and was not carelessly inside on
my luggage - so they didn’t notice.
After the search I immediately went to my cabin and locked the door and
put "Loctite" super glue on the zipper of my pouch to permanently
seal it and that nobody can open it in case somebody tried out of curiosity to
open it. I won't bother to open the
pouch until I get back home and safe and sound in manila.
They
found nothing on my cabin and even opened my luggage for them as part of a
quasi "transparency" thing , although deep inside I was fearful and
distressed that they might find something odd.
Honestly
never in my life have I experienced this so called "cabin search" and
even searched for my luggage. In fact this is the first time in my years as a
sailor and this bad experience will definitely add more to the negative opinion
I have on this so called "hartree" principal. Anyway I'm not here to
stay any longer than necessary on this principal.