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Entry log at June 06, 2015 Saturday

Out of nowhere I was called by the cabin phone and was asked to get some sort of 20 U.S. dollars from the bridge. I had no idea what this is all about and was only clarified that it was a sort of "Vetting Bonus" . Well I guess 20 dollars is better than nothing, but the thing here is this - according to Electrician Felix Rodriguez , we shouldn't be just getting only 20 U.S. dollars and apparently it should be roughly about 66 U.S. Dollars per person. Now the question here is where the hell did the extra 46 U.S. Dollars per person went ?

Thirdmate Corales and Electrician Rodriguez suspects that it just went to the personal pocket of Captain Sorin Sageta and that he went greedy over the money. The thing here is that we went all the trouble and hard work on the vetting and yet the one's reaping the rewards was this so called "captain", making a "cut" on other peoples wages, what a total corrupt exploiting bastard !

After collecting my 20 dollars and hearing Third mate and Electrician's chat about this matter , I went to the crew mess to have a drink and saw more of my crew mates discussing the same subject about the "vetting bonus" . They even plan making an attempt to report this matter via email on NSB authorities. Knowing Filipino's are , I don’t think that this plan of disposing Sorin will ever materialize at all and I doubt that anyone of the crew has the guts or the balls to fight for what is right. Pathetic as this may sound but this is what Filipino's are, They  grumble a lot and discuss a lot of things and talk a lot of stuff on other peoples backs but when it comes to the actual crunch time and moment of truth , they have little courage to speak out and fight for their beliefs and report abusive ship captains  - for short , I hate to admit it but Filipino's are a bunch of cowards.

My crewmates hesitate to report this crooked captain, they even said (and fear) that if we went into taking an action in reporting this to NSB, the principal will respond on withdrawing this perk called "vetting Bonus" altogether. Honestly how could they think about a small sum of money at a time like this ? Think of the lives and other people they we are going to save if sorin has been disposed of ! The perk to be cancelled is just trivial compared to safety and long term peace it will bring if Sorin is kicked out of NSB , We could earn the 60 U.S.D in other ways rather than be always plagued frequently by this menace, could they live on the full duration of their stay here being exploited and pushed around by him ?! . They should think first of the good it will bring if Sorin is kicked out rather than the selfish desire of money, NSB would be a much safer place without sorin and it will be one less Dysfunctional ship captain out there in the maritime community to worry about if he's sacked.

As I had been telling on my previous blogs entries, Most people think that Ship Captains are a reasonable , gentle and wise individuals like the person portrayed in the movies like "Captain Phillips"  (starring tom hanks). In real life however it is exactly opposite, they are vicious, greedy and a total psychopath in any way possible. Ship Captains typically have antisocial personality disorder that act in a way that disregards the feelings and rights of other people. Ship Captains often break the law, and they may use or exploit other people and their job position for their own gain. They may lie repeatedly, act impulsively, and get into physical fights. They may mistreat, neglect or abuse crew members, and most likely exploit their crew. They may even kill other crew members. You won't see on their faces the things like guilt and remorse - Their just simply evil people that have a high salary. So if Pop Culture says that ships captains are Good individuals then their absolutely wrong about that impression

In other news …

The following day, the crew was still basically into discussion about this "Vetting Bonus" of whether or not they should report this to the NSB management. After work which lasted until 3pm (its Saturday it was supposedly to be that working hours are only until noon time).All of the deck crew are suddenly asked to go the bridge at 5pm for a so called "meeting" , well it turns out that it wasn't a meeting but a "scolding" session.

When me, A.B. Ryan , A.B. Luis Allan Arriesgado, and O.S. Keith entered the doorway , Keith had the courtesy to greet "Mr Cobra" good afternoon and was immediately rebuffed and shouted by Cobra saying "Maybe good for you ! But not for me !!!" . Dismayed on what we saw , we never said a word and just when straight ahead . 5 minutes later all the deck crew were already in the bridge and that was when the freak show started and half an hour full of scolding from our reptile captain. From what I remember on the "scolding" he says the following "I already gave you beer, I already gave you money , what you want me to do ?! Give you my mother to look after you !!!" and saying that we should continue working for the whole day on Saturday and half a day on Sunday (in other words whole week of work) , I couldn't exactly remember the rest but everybody got the scolding but the worse who got all was BOSUN Diosana and A.B. Ryan. After the scolding session everyone was in a depressingly dark mood and were just hanging out on the crew mess. It was difficult for me to give the case of beer (ordered by Mr. cobra before the "scolding Incident" that this case of beer be distributed to the crew ) to my crewmates knowingly that they're were in the bad mood , but I still went on it in distributing it anyway as ordered to me by third mate corales. I did gave the case of beer to them and let them decide what to do with it.

When I handed out the case of beer to them, It was obvious that they were not in the mood and said that "they can buy their own beer" . As protest by Pumpman Thanny Sepulveda, Bosun Diosana and the rest of the crew to send a message that their not happy on the captain, they returned the case of beer back right in front of the Captain's Cabin.

Later at night, I received a call from third mate, informing me that three of cases of becks beer have been unaccounted .

Caricature drawing i made of our  "Mr. Cobra" , A very venomous Ship captain !! BEWARE !!!