The 19th National Seafarer’s Day (NSD)

The 19^th NSD will be celebrated on the 28^th of September as the concluding activity of the National Maritime Week (NMW) which is in its 15^th edition. Every year the NSD committee coordinates with a government agenc. This years’ celebration is in cooperation with Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA).

The theme of the 19^th NSD is Marinong Pilipino: Haligi ng Pagbabago! The NSD committee wants to challenge all those in the maritime world and industry to be agents of transformation. Seafarers are the main agents as they travel the world waving the flag love, commitment and hardworking in their profession; at the same time they are the real “haligi” where their families can lean on. The NSD celebration wants to make sure that they are not only remembered by the remittances but by the “haligi” they are for their families and society.

The line-up activities are:  

September 21, 2014: Sunday - AMOSUP Kick-off  Activities,  at Seafarer’s Memorial - Roxas Blvd., Malate, Manila at 0700H

September 22 - 26, 2014: AMOSUP Lobby, the 4^th Photo Contest Exhibit

September 25, 2014: Thursday, the 6^th On-the Spot Art Contest at 0900H in AMOSUP Convention Hall; at the same time the 11^th Oratorical Contest; at 1300H there shall be the Awarding of the winners of the NSD Contests: Oratorical, On-the Spot Art  & Photo Winners

September 26, 2014: LUSWELF venue, Boses Marino Karaoke Challenge and Boodle Fight

September 28, 2014: Sunday

•      Ecumenical Memorial Rite, in PCG Cmpd. beginning at 0700H
•      Grand Parade Assembly at 0630H; from Plaza Rajah Sulayman, Malate, to Ninoy Aquino Stadium
•       19^th NSD Mass, at 0900H, in Ninoy Aquino Stadium, Presided by His Eminence Luis A. G. Cardinal Tagle
•       Key Note Speech, at 1000H, by Honorable Jejomar Binay, Vice President of the Republic of the Philippines
•       Awarding Ceremony: Western Union's 10 Outstanding Maritime Students of the Year and others

 Come and join us! 

Source - AOS-Manila - https://www.facebook.com/apostleshipofthesea.manila?fref=ts

Inaugural Blog Post Mabuhay ang mga Pinoy Seafarers

Foggy morning, Passing San Francisco California's The Golden Gate Bridge
on board MV BULK FINLAND.16 August 2014. Califronia, USA.

I started this blog to post links, articles and other resources that will help me easily locate materials for my graduate school works. I will be posting here also my essays and other research work so that others may be able to read, benefit from them and comment on them so discussion could also take place.

This blog also serve as my online journal of my life on-board and on vacation especially with my two great kids Aeman and Grace as well  as the rest of my family members. So I will be posting here photos and selfies.

I am also a voracious reader so will be sharing here those stuff that I read especially life skills and self-improvement strategies and other things that I read and find useful to share to you readers.

I am learning some languages and will be posting here some foreign words/vocabulary  as well.  

I am a beginner blogger so I hope you will be kind with your comments and I would appreciate
exchanging with you so let us all maximize the comment section of the blog.

This blog will also feature anything and everything about mariners' lives and stories and seafaring.

Mabuhay ang mga Pinoy Seafarers!

MV BULK FINLAND. My home for the next six months. A new vessel for delivery on 31 July 2014.New vessel... a new beginning. — at At Imabari Shipyard, Hiroshima Prefecture