1. Morning (not sure 30th or 31st Oct) : Became Helo Ops signaller for SuperPuma landing & takeoff from L202 maindeck in order to evacuate injured shipwright OJT to hospital.
2. Late afternoon : All crews are to muster on upper deck while ISD or external 3rd party security officers boarded L202 to do inspection of the ship for any illegal goods. All cleared.
3. Night time: RSS Excellence arrived in Tuas Naval Base around 7pm or 8pm++. LRP Seah was already there to take over the harbour guard duty from us. After clearing all the stuffs, call cab and took taxi home with KCP and Cook Chan. The end of MSTD 97 on a journey perspective but the fond memories live.
1997 Navy MSTD Trip Song Flashback: During the sailing days of 96 and 97, whenever the ship return from exercise at night time, be it from Horsburgh lighthouse, South China sea ,etc, there's a sense of joy & happiness when we see the lights of the East Coast strip of Singapore out from sea. That feeling is best described by the beautiful song (my fav) at that period : 許美靜 城裡的月光. Used to sing this softly to myself on the bridge whenever returning from sailing exercise with the sea breeze blowing.
Before there was Stefanie Sun, 許美靜 was the local shining star of Singapore music scene and she's linked to L202 in a minor way actually. According to Gunner Eric Chua, 美靜 was the ex-classmate of our senior Gunner Sim JK. Gunner Sim was the pride of RSS Excellence, nobody in the whole LST squandron can throw a heaving line further than him. During exercise, his line throwing talent always scored big points for L202.
Still remember my guard duty on a certain Sat in 1996 where we watch 許美靜 clinch many singing awards at the prestigious Singapore music hit awards telecast live on Channel 8. We watched it onboard L202 at the PO mess. She's superb.
WT Tey is pleased to complete his RSS Excellence MSTD 97 flashback. 每颗心上某一个地方 ,总有个记忆挥不散. 每个深夜某一个地方, 总有着最深的思量. Will remember her and her crews.
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