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

Spring has come to Singapore! While many countries have the four seasons, Singapore has only three - hot, hotter and the hottest. In Chiangmai and Bangkok, Thailand, temperatures came down to 2 and 15 degrees respectively. Friends in Suzhou and Beijing, China told me it was as cold as minus 5 to minus 8 degrees. Even in Singapore, we are experiencing the most windy and coolest period this time of the year where it is actually spring during the Chinese Lunar New Year. Sitting in an open space for food and a couple of cold beers after a golf game for an hour or so will make you feel so chilled by the last 15 minutes. In many other places, the breeze has been gentle but incessant and one could feel it brushing against your face while standing by the window gazing out watching life goes by. It brings back fond memories during the childhood days gazing towards the playground watching others play. Those were days when Chinese New Year ( CNY ) means a lot to look forward to. The ...

About 50 years ago, in Redwood, California, a man named Karsten Solheim, a General Electric engineer had a problem with his putting and could not find a putter to his liking. So he designed and built a putter for himself. It was an unique putter which he called the A1 and which makes a distinctive "ping" sound at impact thus the Ping Golf brand was born. He started selling his putters from the backyard of their home. Some years later, Solheim went on to unveiled an inspirational putter which was so iconic that even today all the major golf brands has one design modelled after it. The Ping Anser was created and enjoyed by millions of golfers around the world today. It was originally named as "Answer" but due to the limited space on the back toe of the putter which could only accommodate 5 letters, the "w" was dropped and it became the "Anser". When he first got the original idea and inspiration, the only paper he could find was a 78-rpm slee...