Swee Peng (left): “It's a great feeling!" Also in the picture is PA Manager Tan Kah Wah. “This is really my lucky year!” exclaimed Sim Swee Peng from tlle Refinery when told that he had won in the “Name the Ship" contest. “Lucky” because Swee Peng was promoted Operations Supervisor only in January“ and now I am going to Japan 4 . .wow!” Was it unexpected? “I don’t know why, but when I sent in my entry, my colleagues told me that I was sure to win . . . They’ve got ‘sixth sense’, they say, and now they are proven right!” PA ran the employee contest in November to look for a name for a new tanker Esso Eastern Marine Limited is building at Shimoda, Japan. The suggested name must be accompanied by the reasons for its choice, and prizes include an all-expense paid trip to Japan as well as six consolation prizes worth $100 each. Swee Peng’s entry of “Esso Tumasik” was drawn from seven other similar suggestions. The judgcs picked “Esso Tumasik" out of a variety of names submitted by 170 employees because of its historic evocation of Singapore’s heyday as the spice and trading centre of the Far East. Being the old name for Singapore, “Esso Tumasik” also conjures up the romance of the exotic East. Still glowing with the thrill of winning, Swee Peng is arranging to visit Shimoda in May with his wife to witness the launching of the tanker he helped to name. The consolation prizes of $100 each went to Chong Ah Cheng and Hang Teck Hung of Refining, Lai Kin Seng and Frank Stille of M&S, Low Hee Teck from Exxon Chemicals and Bakri Sasman, Controllers. The remaining entries that were shortlisted included poems, acronyms,short essays and even a sketch. Those who soared on flights of imagination (in anticipation of the real thing to Japan) suggested, among others: ESSO BEPPU, ESSO BATU GAJAH, ESSO GOLDEN CHERSONESE, ESSO STRAITS QUEEN, ESSO TAURI. The more down-to-earth gave geographic names such as : ESSO ASIA, ESSO ASEAN, ESSO COLOMBO, ESSO SRI LANKA, ESSO RANGOON, ESSO FAR EAST, and ESSO SENTOSA.