www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

We are basically fumblers. We fumble our way into the world, fumble through school, through work, through friends, through marriage and then in between all these as if the tortures were not enough, we suddenly think that we could also fumble through golf. When we could not even throw or kick a ball decently and I am talking about a fairly huge ball here, we thought we could manage one that is unnecessarily small, could easily get lost in the woods or waters and have to move so many body parts and yet can't move so many body parts hitting them with up to 14 clubs of different shapes, lengths and sizes? So instead of the "Fearsome Foursome" we were suitably reduced to the "Fumbling Foursome" At least we'll have more in numbers than the "Three Stooges". See Moe, Curly and Larry (posted by gonzolane) to reminisce. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmOCThmMmlg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcELyKkOAak Some of you may be thinking of picking up go...

Resolution Many of us would like to forget 2009 as 2010 beckons. In every people and culture, celebrating a new year presents an opportunity to close a door and open a new one. Forget the past and look forward to the future. Like when you go bowling and you couldn't strike nor spare and you wanted to denote that you are going to have a fresh start so you draw a thick line at the end of your last miscue hoping for better returns. This very thought makes people around the world do a resolution list of things to stop doing or to start doing. Weeks and days leading to the end of the year, you start to give yourself pep talks but at the same time realising that it is an onerus task ahead since you have probably achieved little from the previous years' list and with the add-ons the list is getting longer. Just like in the midst of a motivational seminar, hordes of people could even walk on heaps of burning coal and they walk out still feeling smart about the event but as the ...

Do you know that God created the earth in six days and on the seventh day He rested? No, not that He needed to rest but being God He spoke words into being and when He rested it meant He stopped work representing a cycle from creation to completion. That is why we go on in seven day week cycles and you get your Sundays off dude! Aren't you grateful? Therefore, for those of you who have no alternative but to work seven days a week for whatever reasons, you need to try to take a day off especially on Sunday. Your body, mind and soul needs a rest and to rejuvenate. This is important. Do you know that ancient Chinese knew about creation? Tell me if you know that every Lunar New Year, what do the Chinese in particular the Cantonese celebrate on the seventh day? 人日 which is a celebration of Man's birthday right? (Or yan yat in Cantonese). What else do ancient Chinese know? Words - Chinese words were created as such 造 is to create and is made up of 土 which is earth，口 which is mo...

In recent times, I can't help but notice that when people see me, they would remark that I have more gray hair. I mean, do they expect that my hair would grow darker each passing year? Then I look at them and found that they are not doing much better. In fact, some have wads of them. They would also often comment about a certain part of your anatomy like "Wow, your tummy is rounder" but you look back and you see that his is even rounder if not bigger.  I mean what were people expecting when your six pack is now in unison and complete reunion and harmony as they are no longer separated. It's like a six-piece band coming back for a concert. Now, I began to see the point. People like to feel good and want you to be a member of their club. Isn't this age suppose to be of a narrower top (mind) and wider middle (waist). It's a good and bad thing rolled into one. I remember during a sales I could never find the size for trousers. Now, I could find a few. Ditto f...

I hurt my right arm at the joints from the elbow right up to my shoulder while golfing some weeks ago but I suspect the injury could have been aggravated by my sleeping position and have since yet to have fully recovered. This was the first time I have an injury in eight years of golf. There's still a twitching pain when stretched which leads me to think that I might as well take a hiatus and a good rest for the year and make a comeback with a vengeance next year hopefully by January 2010 (that's a year) but unfortunately I do not have the "Privacy" to go to. Anyway, the inclement weather makes golfing difficult - playing two holes and resting for half an hour, play another two and stop for 45 minutes. A friend who is a very proficient golfer has to be going for a scheduled knee surgery soon and he is probably golfing the right way with all the weight transfer hurting his left knee but we warned him that it looked like Tiger's injury m...

The first time I teed off as a beginner in golf, it was with an iron. Teeing off with a driver was a futile and hopeless exercise as it often leads to exasperation. Then a good uncle who is an avid golfer kindly presented me one of his old club, an used Callaway Warbird 3-wood. I tried using it from the tee and immediately fell in love with that club which I'm still keeping to this day. I begin to ask questions like why would most people struggle with a driver and refused to use a 3-wood to tee off? I could hit the Callaway Warbird for 200m and in the fairways. I was also experiencing the feel and the sound of the club compared to some run-of-the-mill type and I got some association with the brand name of Callaway. Later, some other golfers kept suggesting that if you never learned how to use a driver you are putting yourself in a disadvantaged position because you will lose distance which contradicted with my observation that slightly shorter...

Straying Do you like anything that strays? Stray kites, stray shots by golfers or footballers are the pits. I have heard that to err is human and to forgive divine. From Edison Chen to David Letterman to Tiger, to stray is only being human as they have been portrayed in some quarters. If it were so, honesty is just impossible to be accomplished and would be rarely achieved. Cheating and promiscuity are on the rise and if these were to continue unabated it makes those who are faithful and working hard on being honest and responsible look like morons. There are also women out there who does not appreciate their honest hubbies enough because they look like the morons I have just described. Some women are overly-suspicious and they even check on their husbands, check their smses, etc. like control freaks. If you are in this category, be careful as you may just unwittingly drive your moron of a good husband to the arms of another woman,worse, another man, haha. I told my friends few...

2009 is coming to an end, good riddance many would say. Right now the SEA games is bringing back fond memories. SEA Games - Water Polo I could remember vividly the then SEAP Games in 1973. Singapore has a spanking new National Stadium at Kallang and right where I used to live in Toa Payoh, they had just completed new point-block flats which were used to house the athletes and if you walked around the town centre you get to see all the athletes from different countries identifiable by the country emblazoned on their track suits. Our swimmers have always been great - Pat Chan, Junie Sng, Joscelin Yeo and all. Now we have Quah Ting Wen. Each time when they played Majulah Singapura you feel a great sense of pride. There were a great many achievements and no achievements could be had without the sacrifices of the sportsmen and sportswomen and the most amazing feat to me is the traditional of our super winners - the water polo team which has just won their 23rd Gold. Not only that, ...