I’m still in Ho Chi Minh City. When I was leaving the hotel this morning, I knew I had just enough time to check in for the flight. And the roads were unbelievably congested with the taxi going like a snail at 20-30 km/h… When I arrived at the airport, the JetStar check-in counter was already closed and I heard the final call to board. Too late… Sigh, sigh, sigh… I had no choice but to reserve another flight, and it had to be done as soon as possible. If I had checked the JetStar schedule, I might have got a cheaper flight to go back to Singapore. However, my thinking was that I wanted to get out of this situation fast. So, I reserved tomorrow’s Vietnam Airlines flight, costing me some more money… This is my very first time to have missed a flight.
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Yesterday afternoon, I learned, while checking newspapers online, that an MSDF destroyer (escort vessel), “Hamayuki” had a minor collision with a Cambodian-registered
cargo ship in the Saigon port. I went to the port to see the accident scene, but from the street, nothing of the port could be seen with high fences along Saigon River. Resigned, I decided to take a few photos of the river cruise ships. Walking along the river near the boarding point for the ships, I found three navy ships in distance! I walked more to get nearer to the ships though the path along the river didn’t take me close to them. Beside one of the vessels was a small cargo ship! Ha! I believe I was among the first, including the MSDF itself, who took photos of the scene. (“Hamayuki” and another vessel “Matsuyuki,” which was berthed with side by side “Hamayuki,” had an accident today again, this time with a Vietnamese-registered cargo ship.)*
On “Australia Network”several days ago, I saw a woman presenter who used to work with ChannelNews Asia.
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