Pirate Press - Pacific catch-up edition

16th April 2005:

Days have passed by so fast that I could barely catch up on my writing,erm... typing.

Well, the initial days of awe and shock were taken over by drooping eyes and
a much-fatigued body.
On top of everything, the days did not pass by with an hour lost for the next consecutive nine days. At least I could take a breath in Long Beach, I thought I could initially,until the newly joined officer (who got on at the same time as I did) dropped some nonsensical bombshell about not feeling well and wanted to resign.

Rather lame if you asked me. Anyway, the working hours got down to12 hours a day, with a break of six hours in between. My hopes of seeingUniversal Studios have to be shelved off until further notice.

Five days passed by and off we cast off the ropes and headed back into thePacific. A little rock and roll got me bogged down, green with seasick. The terrible episode of 10 hours ended rather quickly with plenty of lying down.Previous remedy concoctions include downing a can of beer to make me tipsy enough and enough to send me to dreamland; however this option is struck offdue to religious grounds.Now back on my two sturdy sea-feet and back to the keyboards.

Now is getting some payback, as I get an hour more each day *rubs hands gleefully*and *punches hand in the air* more time for my favourite pastime, zzzing.With plenty of food, erm, more of snacks purchases in the convenient Walmartback in Long Beach, I have enough tibits to last me way till SG. But as the mouth or rather, the stomach is bottomless , I will have to procure more snacks whenin Shekou, PRC, Port Klang and SG. I do have a nice little fridge in mycabin where I can stock up my soya bean drinks, a must-have supplement in my veg diet these days.