Hello Friends! Firstly let me apologise for the 4 days of cyber-silence. Unfortunately the router in the buildings took a bit of a hit during a storm on Sunday (or was it Monday), and I have been without internet in the room since. Unfortunately, we also have a problem with our connectivity at work also, which means that I couldn't even email my posts out to you all.
On the up side a way around this curses has been found (ie use the wireless Internet at reception!), and thank God! I was starting to feel like an addict going through withdrawals!
Sadly, I don't have a great deal to tell, but don't think that this will impair my ability to tap away for a while and fill you all in on the mundane details of my world over the past few days.
So the ship has gone from the shift-working that the guys were doing, back into a normal dutywatch, which is good for all of our shift workers, but not so fantastic for the dozen or so of us who are now back into the duty watch system......particularly as we have such a limited crew up here, so at the moment we're all in a 1 in 3 rotation. Personally I have the dubious pleasure of duty this Monday past, tomorrow, next Monday and next Wednesday, before a 4 or 5 day break prior to my next duty! I do accept that it's part of my job, and I'm not that put out about it, but in the absence of something actually interesting to post, it fills in the blank spaces.
What isn't quite so easy to accept (but will be nonetheless), is that we have to go to work tomorrow, remain on the ship overnight, then get towed around from where we are completing our refit, to the wharf at Sembawang, which will take us overnight on Saturday, so we have the joyous privilege of being on the ship from 10am tomorrow (Fri) until whatever time we get to Sembawang on Sunday........Thankfully I stocked up on shaving cream, laundry powder and about 8 bags of lollies to make sure I had all things necessary for the two traumatic days.
I have to feel a little bad for a couple of people who are duty today and Sunday, that they are stuck on the ship from this morning until Monday morning........hmmm so really I've got nothing to complain about!
Well, it's less than two months til we're due back home, and while I'm still not sick of Singapore (unlike most people!), I am looking forward to getting back to my own home, and seeing all my fantastic friends (who make my world inestimably better!).
Hmmm...Tomorrow marks day 60 (and exactly 2 months) of beautiful sobriety, and nicotine freedom!......I think that come Monday it will be the longest I've ever gone without smoking (well since I was 13 years old at any rate), and will be the longest I've unbroken stint of sobriety since I came of age (in case my Mum and Dad read this, we'll pretend that this was at the age of 18).
Ok, I think that's about enough idle prattle for one night. During the course of my duties and time at anchor on Saturday night, I'll attempt to write a couple more poems and the short story, so that I'm still progressing with the sobriety list. Fingers crossed they're not so bad that they make your eyes bleed to read them! :)
Have an outstanding weekend Friends, and feel free to make some more suggestions for my sobriety list.......I can't guarantee that I'll include them, but I'll definitely consider them, and I still have 45 or so items to include.
Bye :)
On the up side a way around this curses has been found (ie use the wireless Internet at reception!), and thank God! I was starting to feel like an addict going through withdrawals!
Sadly, I don't have a great deal to tell, but don't think that this will impair my ability to tap away for a while and fill you all in on the mundane details of my world over the past few days.
So the ship has gone from the shift-working that the guys were doing, back into a normal dutywatch, which is good for all of our shift workers, but not so fantastic for the dozen or so of us who are now back into the duty watch system......particularly as we have such a limited crew up here, so at the moment we're all in a 1 in 3 rotation. Personally I have the dubious pleasure of duty this Monday past, tomorrow, next Monday and next Wednesday, before a 4 or 5 day break prior to my next duty! I do accept that it's part of my job, and I'm not that put out about it, but in the absence of something actually interesting to post, it fills in the blank spaces.
What isn't quite so easy to accept (but will be nonetheless), is that we have to go to work tomorrow, remain on the ship overnight, then get towed around from where we are completing our refit, to the wharf at Sembawang, which will take us overnight on Saturday, so we have the joyous privilege of being on the ship from 10am tomorrow (Fri) until whatever time we get to Sembawang on Sunday........Thankfully I stocked up on shaving cream, laundry powder and about 8 bags of lollies to make sure I had all things necessary for the two traumatic days.
I have to feel a little bad for a couple of people who are duty today and Sunday, that they are stuck on the ship from this morning until Monday morning........hmmm so really I've got nothing to complain about!
Well, it's less than two months til we're due back home, and while I'm still not sick of Singapore (unlike most people!), I am looking forward to getting back to my own home, and seeing all my fantastic friends (who make my world inestimably better!).
Hmmm...Tomorrow marks day 60 (and exactly 2 months) of beautiful sobriety, and nicotine freedom!......I think that come Monday it will be the longest I've ever gone without smoking (well since I was 13 years old at any rate), and will be the longest I've unbroken stint of sobriety since I came of age (in case my Mum and Dad read this, we'll pretend that this was at the age of 18).
Ok, I think that's about enough idle prattle for one night. During the course of my duties and time at anchor on Saturday night, I'll attempt to write a couple more poems and the short story, so that I'm still progressing with the sobriety list. Fingers crossed they're not so bad that they make your eyes bleed to read them! :)
Have an outstanding weekend Friends, and feel free to make some more suggestions for my sobriety list.......I can't guarantee that I'll include them, but I'll definitely consider them, and I still have 45 or so items to include.
Bye :)
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