we will rule!!
i started working already!! and what a week it had been.. not what i expected at all.. in fact, i didn't even get to sail this week. well, gives me the chance to get my coc in-dated soon, so that i can start doing duties..
haven't met most of the crew yet, cos my ship is in yard. met two other AOs, meeting one more on mon (going off for studies, so he is clearing leave now). all of them are from junior batches, so they behave, well, rather "juniorly".. i'm trying to tell them it's the wrong mentality they are having, that as officers they should behave as one. one of them keep insisting that there are nothing more than 4-bar midshipmen, but they will only be treated this way if they think of themselves this way.. ytd i asked if we are going to changi at noon directly, cos there's simulation training there. i was shocked when they told me that there's no freedom of choice, that as AOs we must report to ship at 7.30am.. and also that i have to understudy all duties our ship has, including today.. i was shocked.. i thought that by telling NO i got the children's club thing, i should be ok. and since the simulation training ends at 10pm, we should be able to report later than usual.. well, so i talked to my XO in the afternoon, and got it settled.. i'll be going for YA later, and we will go to changi direct at noon.. sometimes all it takes is to ask, but in this situation there is more.. i need to drill into them the proper mentality of an officer.. and it's a good thing they got me as a fellow AO.. hee...
well, enough bitching abt that.. life now is slightly easier than when i was an AO right after commissioning.. the multi-crew concept is kinda confusing. oh, i went simcen on thurs, the junior AO said its an eye-opener.. as for me, well, i was on a MGB b4.. haha.. no kick for me this time.. =p
haven't met most of the crew yet, cos my ship is in yard. met two other AOs, meeting one more on mon (going off for studies, so he is clearing leave now). all of them are from junior batches, so they behave, well, rather "juniorly".. i'm trying to tell them it's the wrong mentality they are having, that as officers they should behave as one. one of them keep insisting that there are nothing more than 4-bar midshipmen, but they will only be treated this way if they think of themselves this way.. ytd i asked if we are going to changi at noon directly, cos there's simulation training there. i was shocked when they told me that there's no freedom of choice, that as AOs we must report to ship at 7.30am.. and also that i have to understudy all duties our ship has, including today.. i was shocked.. i thought that by telling NO i got the children's club thing, i should be ok. and since the simulation training ends at 10pm, we should be able to report later than usual.. well, so i talked to my XO in the afternoon, and got it settled.. i'll be going for YA later, and we will go to changi direct at noon.. sometimes all it takes is to ask, but in this situation there is more.. i need to drill into them the proper mentality of an officer.. and it's a good thing they got me as a fellow AO.. hee...
well, enough bitching abt that.. life now is slightly easier than when i was an AO right after commissioning.. the multi-crew concept is kinda confusing. oh, i went simcen on thurs, the junior AO said its an eye-opener.. as for me, well, i was on a MGB b4.. haha.. no kick for me this time.. =p
posted by zhenmingtianzi at 11:47 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home