JOURNALS OF A FILIPINO SEAMAN

48 hours ago.......... restaurant inside maritime hotel  Finally after quite some time I had now finally finished all my paper prerequisite requirements to get my ass deployed in CONTI Greenland. Personally I'm satisfied that I have already settled all that needs to be done rather than hurling my way on the last minute. Career Company says that my deployment will be on this June but I bet it will be on July, regardless on which month I'd be deployment will not matter - For now all I can say is that I'm on the waiting list. Submitting the two remaining requirements and attending PDOS seminar (Pre departure orientation)was accomplished in a snap. For the moment I had been pondering on a few things like questioning why Filipino sailors have to get COP's. Rumour's started way back somewhere in 2010, apparently there was this so called STCW meeting that was held in manila, had no detail on what was discussed there but what I do know it held a conclusion that all training...

Can't believe that after four long years I'm back here again in Rotterdam Netherlands, It feels like it was just like yesterday when i still a deck cadet that i first started my career here as a sailor. I'm not being nostalgic about my situation knowing that I'd only be staying here in less than a day and be joining ship onboard conti Greenland in the morning. I haven't given any detail yet on how i got here on this blog as well (which I haven't wrote anything at all for more than a week ) - My next post entry will shed more info. For now I'm enjoying the scenery before I get to business. I do hope that this next 6 months wont be as difficult in working relations as what happened to me down in Cape TALLIN ship.

This is the actual videos of a fire drill onboard a ship, I took the video using a spy cam. Hope this will be useful as a reference on people who will view my blog

This are actual shipboard familiarization videos I filmed using my spy cam. unfortunately im not proficient in having a spy cam and most of it was pointed "downward"during my stay in CAPE Tallin

Traffic along EDSA highway,  Really hate getting crammed on the bus - but taking a bus is much better than the local train  Yet again another week has passed for me to make any move regarding my sailing job. Obviously money is getting scarce again now that I'm still temporarily unemployed, But despite this believe it or not - I'm happy here at the house rather than be out there onboard a ship working. At least here I constantly monitoring my mom and dad's health and go to their aid in case something bad happens. My recent visit on career ship management had me compressing work that should be done for a month to only a day . I reported back to the office because of this so called BTU / BTR COP document which regrettably haven't been settled with by PNTI. The staff on the NAC counter in Career Ship Management ( "Mariz" ) gave me a set of papers that will be needed to "expedite" BTU / BTR Cop documents. Now the big question here is whether or not I will...

Yellow Fever Card (or more like inoculation cards) Cholera Inoculations is top most yellow card, In the middle below is my Yellow fever vaccine card and inner yellow card at the bottom is my typhoid fever vaccination card It was a quick tour when I arrived in career a couple of days ago, My main purpose why I'm here is to return all the documents I borrowed from the company such as my medical certificate etc.,. Upon my arrival, I immediately went to the NAC counter to return my Seaman's book and SRC card so that they could process my contract in POEA. Afterwards I immediately went to the medical counter to give them back my medical certificate and ask information about these cholera inoculations (vaccine) , They gave me a referral form to the same clinic I got my typhoid fever inoculations. Guess I'd be visiting again Jacob's Ladder Immunization Centre. Next thing I did after going to the medical booth was go to the TESDA booth (also called "Mrs Teri's" bo...

Problem with Career Ship Management is that they are always never specific on the objectives that I should take first and as expected they will inform me on a late basis, such as what happened last Thursday were I was informed yet again that I have to take these some sort of cholera inoculation tablets, and report ASAP on the medical counter. The thing that annoys me is that they have the full two weeks to inform me about this and they did not even bother to give me at least any hints that I should take this requirement and only informed me on the last moment. They should cut that habit of surprising their employees. Anyway in other news, Claiming the MARINA COP II-4 / II-5 (TESDA COC) wasn't that big deal as it was when I was applying for it (posted on my previous journal entry) and the best part is that I don’t have to wake up on a very early time just to get those two pieces of paper. I went there at about 8:30am on the sixth floor of MARINA Building and just presented my claim ...