JOURNALS OF A FILIPINO SEAMAN

We have seen this posters numerous times already , so many times that it's no longer making any sense at all. This poster I saw on the internet is really interesting however this barely scratches the surface of the reality on being a Filipino sailor, It does provide a general detail but not the specifics and leaves a broader room for interpretation. Some of these facts reflect positive and others negatively and some doesn’t provide the reality. LOADS OF MONEY - true on a financial basis that if you compare it via Philippine standards , Philippine money is way less than that of a U.S. Dollar (or even a Euro). Believe it or not purchasing power in the Philippines is bigger than western countries , and salaries for sailors are based in foreign pay (in U.S. dollars). In the Philippines a 900 U.S. Dollar for Salary for a sailor is a very big money but if you compare that salary in the united states - it is just only equal to a salary of a local fast food worker. If the Philippine pe...

10 am when my hand phone rang, it was a call from my company. Expecting that this might be the time were they will give notice that my time in the Philippines is up and had to depart, I picked up the phone. Surprised that it was Mr., "Nidoy"  asking something about my appraisal report , I told him that I'm not aware that I had one , and if I do it should have been forward to the company by now. The explanation why he has to ask for my appraisal report (called also evaluation report on other companies) was that the CSM superintendent recently disapproved my transfer. Mr., "Nidoy" gave no further details why I was turned down by CSM,  and asked if there was any past misdeeds I had done, I said I don’t recall anything as far as I know of, and his guess is as good as mine. He added also on our conversation that if it would be ok for me to return back to NSB if things went sour on CSM. I said it won't cause any problems if I would be back in NSB. Before the conve...