ye learns to write

The ship will get on the shipside of this port whose channel-dredging project had been carried on by us for a long time. We must leave out to conduct our work after we finish loading the lubricating oil on board in about 2 hours. We are disappointed about this arrangement made by the port, for they changed the plan prepared formerly under which we could enjoy a 2-nights’ free time on the land. All that we can do is to accept this and say goodbye to our big illusion.
This is not the only bad news for us. After we received that stupid plan from the VHF radiophone, we found that we cannot find captain’s name in the name list of the login window in the Remote Attendance Control System. This is a serious problem that we can’t upload the crewmember’s attendance statistics without captain’s authorization, which is based on the successful login of the system. I tried to reinstall this software and recovered the backup of the MDB file, which is essential that stores all the statistics of our attendance. The company in Shanghai collects the data of the system and gives us the proper salaries on demand. All what I have done have finally resulted with no effect. It is always a hard-to use and easy-to-collapse environment, I don’t think I can fix it easily. So I sent an email with a detailed report to the HR department to seek for on demand support, which is hold by my friend Chen. God bless him!
An episode between these is that our wireless network have been stopped working for almost 14 hours, it’s unusual considering our position and the weather. In my opinion, this is because of the running out of the money paid to the wireless network provider China Unicom. We give them the cash in advance to get the wireless service, and then they can enjoy the interest of them in the bank and stop the poor service (unstable, exceed to 10 kB/s) immediately if the found no money has left in our account. What a excellent business!
China will hold the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and it seems that China Mobile has begun to setup its 3rd Generation TD-SCDMA wireless network, which can provide us with a maximum 35M/s speed non-stopping wireless network. May God bless them!

It’s weird when I suddenly found myself in the trailing suction hopper dredger’s meeting room waiting for the sailors to teach the basic computer knowledge, without any nerves or excitement, I was just standing beneath the blackboard hanging in the wall and thinking about the near coming course calmly. Maybe I was worried about the possibly absence of the crew, praying at least one person would come to take the course. My worries had finally been proved to be a indulge in fantasy. There are total 44 crew and officers here in the ship, 13 of them had taken part in my course on time, although I had told them that this would be a very very basic computer train. In addition, another 9 crewmates asked me later to do give them the same class at twelve-noon tomorrow. Considering that there are 11 crewmen had been home for a scheduled break or rotate days off and rest of 33 people works three shifts a day, it is large in quantity.
After recalling the photos taken by our charitable chief engineer, who had been a teacher for almost 20 years on land, I became gratified with my efforts lasted for the whole week. A total 10 hours preparation and one hour non-stopping teaching is worth that. In fact, all those who have time have come here (except the one who is still sleeping to make up of the poor sleep) regardless of their age and position. Our lovely old chief officer who had been re-employed as a substitute officer which is necessary in this kind of ship said, “It’s for you to prepare for this extracurricular course, but as I have been so old, what I want to get from this participation is some practical operation to work out a bit of printed nice looking documents in the A4 paper.” I accepted his suggestion and tried to explain why I had to teach them CPU, mouse and even the use of Caps Lock in the keyboard, for the reason I told them those in a few minutes is want them to know how magic the computer world is. He appreciated my work and expressed firmly the willing to join the next course some days later, but I didn’t even know what I should talk with them where and when. The younger sailor hired from the poor region of this country told me that what I have done is perfect, “It is really a good opportunity for us who comes from the rural area of China to improve the computer techniques and I think I have got some, but you have been keeping talking to us for more than one hour, please do give me some time to ask a tiny question!”, he said sincerely and frankly.
Gong, who has facilitated the whole thing by encourage me to try to be a teacher, said: “I was sleeping then, how dare you leave me to carry out this, you must teach me alone!” he said.
I’m not a qualified and well experienced teacher, but my parents were once in the early 1980s in the village school of my hometown where they got in touch with each other for the first time. I always respect teacher, and all the Chinese do for more than 2800 years.