a navigator`s serenade - electrification of a heart

entri tersirat...yg tersurat tidak menceritakan segalanya...

electrification of a heart

 

 

 

I just wanted to hold you in my arms..

for you had electrify my life..
and I will never let you go..

hold me..

and our lips will always be sealed...

 

-come to sea and see for yourself-

a navigator`s serenade - far and dreaming

entri sebanyak mungkin....

i own nothing...

there are the seas

the sky

and you

but none of them are mine

and none of them

are within my reach

and each of them are keeping us apart

for i am far

and yet

you felt so near

-come to sea and see for yourself-

the story of a watchkeeping officer - looking back...

entri kisah lama...

jangan baca buku dlm gelap...!!

i was looking back at my previous post since this blog came to be in 2009....how time had gone by and how i had changed...how things had change around me for the last three years....

i laughed at some of my writings and drafts...i surprised myself in some of it...and i felt ashamed on how immature i was in some of the post...its like rojak pasemboq...(god i miss rojak pasemboq)...a lil bit of self stupidity...a little bit of enlightenment to myself...which i didnt know whether it had any use to others...some misery...some happiness...some of this and some of that...

which leads to where i am now...

i dont know what will this post lead to...

but one thing for sure..
it will lead me forward....

"the grass is greener on the other side of the field"

-come to sea and see for yourself-

story of a watchkeeping officer - day after day : madness

entri x dapat cope up.....


day by day...i felt fed up...getting bored and felt tired....i dont even care anymore to walk to the shipyard gate and have a look see of the city...coz there is no time at all to do that...

working condition had been better since the beginning of the 2nd week...where blasting is now focused inside the ballast tanks..but then its chaotic on deck...everything is everywhere...

and to make things worst...our ship is schedule for vetting in Ulsan...which is 2 days from Qingdao...hearing this...i felt like giving up...after all this and now that....

...I wont dream to come again for docking in China...it is astonishingly terrible...

i rather went back home...this is too much for me.....

the story of a watchkeeping officer - day after day : day 00 to day 07

entri kerja paraas...drydock sungguh sakit...


i had lost my ability to write...eh silap...to type...coz my head are filled with drydock specs and makian2 from senior officer....so my day to day life in a place called Qingdao Bei Hai Shipyard are presented as a pictorial entry...

i am one lazy fakka....

this is from day 00 till day 07...enjoy the bad resolution pic...and will be posting in the same manner for days to come...

enjoy the not so sharp non SLR pics...ngahahhaaa

day 00 - on the blocks

day 02 - blasted heaven

day 03 - extreme working conditions

day 05 - drones...

day 06 - China industrial strength....

day 07 - making progress..

haha...seems like everything is in order...then wait till day 08...

-come to sea and see for yourself-

 

Kapal Best - Scorpene SSK...Premier Hunter Killers

entri dive...dive...dive...!!!

the two hunter killers called the prime ministers...photo taken from here

i am one proud Malaysian knowing that the naval forces had move one step further in modernising their fleet and capabilities by aquiring a number of surface and sub-surface assets..modernising its air wings and older surface assets and much2 more to protect our waters and its resources...

although there are unpleasant news coming from people with political interest more than national interest saying that some of the procurement were filled with corruptions and so on...

to hell with politics...

here is a post comemmorating our seafarers..i stand corrected..submariners who went to the deep and stayed there to defend the nation...

few years back...RMN had sent its personnel to France for submarine training....which will be the Gold and Blue crew of the nation first submarine squadron...operating from newly established naval base in East Malaysia...

in 2009...the first sub...the KD Tunku Abdul Rahman arrived in Port Klang with her crew sailing from France..and had marked Malaysia as the 3rd nation in the South  East Asia with subsurface warfare capabilities...

TUNKU...first premier...first hunter killer...

i am quite dissapointed when i was told that both boat were named after a politician..an ex-premier to be exact...whilst there are much more suitable name for both...but who cares what i think..

anyway...

The Scorpene has been jointly developed by French DCNS, Armaris and Spanish shipbuilder Navantia (formerly Bazan, then Izar) of Spain. The armaments package includes Whitehead Alenia Sistemi Subacquei-built Black Shark heavyweight wire-guided torpedoes and up to 16 MBDA-built SM-39 Exocet submarine-launched anti-ship cruise missiles.

The subs are also a part of special operation deep insertion platform...capable of deploying divers from special operation units for mission behind enemy lines.

Life onboard a subs is world aparts from life on a surface craft....where everything is cramped and space is limited and had dual purpose...i heard stories where submariners had their bunks placed right above and below torpedo within torpedo bay...

TUN RAZAK...the second premier and thus the second hunter killer...

living quarters placed close to the missile silo...and everything for the officers and crews..living quarters...mess...navigation deck..CIC...etc...were placed way forward while the turbines,generators and reactor were placed way aft..in case of a nuclear submarine where radiation leaks is a nightmare...

plus...living in a such small space...under 300-400 feet of crushing pressure of seawater is very intimidating...knowing that if something bad happens...the only way you go is only down...and crushed into oblivion...

on the conning tower...the skipper and his officers...

but then...none of us...layman had thought of this....only thinking that procurement of this subs are rubbish and so on...while not taking into consideration how 39 lives...who manned and operates these magnificent machine in the crushing depth of cold and dark ocean...sacrifices themselves for us to sleep well during the night....

Albeit some Malaysian with political affiliations had labeled this subs a scandals involving high ranking personnel in the government...which also involved in millions of ringgits worth of taxpayer money used to feed someone pockets for their own interest...

i neither believe in those who ran the country right now coz i know some of them cant be trusted....and oppositions who said they are the champion of the people struggling to go against corrupted leaders but also dua kali lima...coz both are politicians and they had their own interest...money and power

in my interest...national defence should not be use as a tool for political purposes...it a common interest of all Malaysian...regardless of polititcal interest of views...

i had gone astray...

salutation to the naval forces who..without remorse...and without fear...carry on to protect the nation and its interest...

SILENT AND DEADLY...

-come to sea and see for yourself-

the story of a watchkeeping officer - co-pilot...

entri kereta kebal...

armoured personnel carrier

for RM98k...i got myself a Honda...this is what i get from my previous tour of duty...a white Honda City E-Grade 1.6 i-VTEC registered in 2010...

still...it seems incomplete...coz i havent got myself a competent co-pilot...

haih....

-come to sea and see for yourself-

story of a watchkeeping officer - At Drydock

entri kerja paraas...

tuh diaa...bapak beso..!!

this time of year...the ol MT BUNGA MELATI 3 is due for everything...port state control inspections...vetting inspections...annual maintenance...and drydocking...

hell...going to drydock is the most unpleasant thing a seafarers could face...especially when your ship are destined to had its docking time in China...yes..China..the world largest photocopier...everything from IPhonge...Sannie Erriksen..Panausonik..Naike..Geely and Cherry..Addidas..and a lot more cap ayam stuff you can find here in the pseudo communist-capitalist state...

and in recent years...the largest global economic powerhouse also built ships and offshore maritime installation at outstanding pace and quantity..the number of ships coming out from shipyards around China had even surpassed Koreans...although built quality is still in question...(cheap = low quality...pay more = good quality)

im stuck in a maritime city called Qingdao...located in the Shandong province (kacang Shandong came from here) not far from the Yellow Sea..and Korea is just right across the sea...

here my ship is schedule for drydocking...one month of hectic and chaotic operations consisting of sand and grit blasting on deck and in the ballast tanks...steel works..engine overhaul...ketuk karat sana sini...repairs and maintenance of damn loads of equipments...from cargo pumps...to anchor and its cables...navigation equipments..a whole lot more of ketuk karat...ketuk tile jamban...a lot more steel cutting and steel works...etc...etc..ect...

tough times here...for one reason...all these chinese drones could not speak proper English...hell most of them dont even know what is English stands for...surprisingly...women speaks better English than men...and our officers and crews had a tough time dealing with these guys...i myself end up speaking Bahasa Malaysia with northern slangs...which sounds like

"Wo pu chi tau..nigger...tang..re shi shi pu yau nigger..wa ne shi pu ren nigger..." said one workers....which in turn...i said..

"Hah...aku dah habaq mai kat hang...jangan potong besi tuh...padan muka hang kena marah ngan chief mate aku"
(I told you already..dont cut the steel..now serve you right..my chief is angry you fuckers..!!)

miscommunications had taken its toll...

regarding the maritime city Qingdao...well there is nothing much to be written here..since most of us didnt have the chance to go there...but there is another city named Huangdao which is close to the shipyard...but compared to the well established Qingdao..Huangdao is still new...nothing to be seen...only high rise building under constructions...and a Jusco shopping mall..cmon laa..Jusco kat Malaysia pn ade what...no point...

now were at day 09...another 16 days to go...still a lot more to be done...seem like were behind schedule...and the top four are scratching their heads...

i wonder why my kompeni didnt sent our fleet of ship to drydock in Pasir Gudang...which is part of the kompeni subsidiary...why oh why...(makan duit rakyat kah..??)

-come to sea and see for yourself-

the story of a watchkeeping officer - Day by Day

entri day by day...

Red deck..cloudy sky and calm seas..

Where day turns to night..

and the sun rise again to mark a new day...

we move on day by day...

keeping forward and never a step back...

for my ship is my home and thy seas is our life...

-come to sea and see for yourself-