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

An old buddy has requested me to post a topic on "how to buy an electric guitar". To tell you the truth, I have never bought one but what the heck, buying anything is the same. All we need is not just some cash but a little imagination helps. How To Buy An Electric Guitar What's a good guitar? A good guitar is the one that suits the budget. Right? If money is no object then you have no problem going for what the pros are using. Otherwise, if we travel on budget airlines, plays off budget golf equipments, drive a budget car and eat budget economic rice we may also choose to do so with a budget electric guitar. Its still makes some sound. The big boys always make a wide range of products from the simplest budget type to the highest range just like how Toyota and GM would make them and when it comes to guitars, look no further than Squier (by Fender) and Ibanez. They would in all probability just replicate the designs by using cheaper materials thus saving costs and gi...

Who would win if the Chicago Bulls play against the Tamil Tigers? The game is going to be a blast. Sometimes people like to give fancy names to make things interesting. The Eagles are in Geylang while the Dolphins are in Sengkang. How many of you know that? Geylang is actually famous for Beef Hor Fun, Frog legs porridge and where you will find the world's oldest profession - the chick trade.  Now that is crying fowl. As a young boy watching black and white TV, the most popular sport on TV back then was wrestling if it's considered one. That was the influence because all the fathers and uncles were watching it. Usually those who wore black or anything that look remotely black are the baddies. So as a young kid, when I got to watch the first soccer match on TV (we called it "football' back then), my first question was which team is the good one?  Was the one in darker attire the bad ones? Many poorer families who do not own a television set at home have to go to a c...

Alfred Nobel is someone we all know. He's not the guy who sends you hampers. That's Noel. Alfred appeared wrongly on an obituary meant for his brother and that's when he realised the world remembered him for his great invention which was actually something destructive - dynamite. As a result, he decided to fund the Nobel Prizes. His name is today connected to humankind's greatest achievements. When one does a kindness for someone else, you set forth a power of goodwill that keep going long after you are gone. So why not give out more handicap strokes to your fellow golfers and you will be long remembered and talked about? Which is the most important club in your golf bag? Is It The..... Driver? If every shot you make with your driver from the tee split the fairways, just imagine what you could have saved at the end of a game. When you don't make a profit then you save. Savings from penalties incurred for getting into the waters or veering ...

PGA Championship What is the first thing you have to do to beat Tiger Woods? You have to t urn up and before you get all mental or psychological, you have have to be prepared in the physical realm, you have to get to the course early, release all of yesterday's toxic waste at the loo which you may otherwise be carrying with you which is of no benefit. Turning up early allows you a little luxury to ease your tension of the day before a game. Hope you get the point. You saw it for yourself on TV one of golf's great historical moments when Y.E. Yang, the first Asian born who tamed Tiger to win the PGA Championship. You read the papers talking about how his parents, farmers in Jeju Island objected to his desire to play golf how he got his meagre pay picking golf balls and when he found an iron he would trained himself before the range opened and after the range closed. Y.E. Yang Where from a distant galaxy of a humble 110th ...

Stephen Covey said in his "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" that one of his key principles in life is to begin with the end in mind. How true. In order to begin with the end in mind, we have to get to the back end of the story to get to the front like what we hope to achieve in life or in golf by getting to the end part and play your own video backwards then you will know how to get there. That's why I read the newspapers backwards.  Just kidding, I do that because the front page are usually all bad news, economic troubles, plane crashes, etc. This is about charting a path and making a plan even if most plans do not usually work out. Plan to fail if you fail to plan always rings true. I call it mapping as in mind mapping, etc.  Basically, I am encouraging you to review your golf game backwards - from the green to the tee box and from here on how to map and decide what you put into your golf bag. It's like living your life backwards - first from an old man...

What kind of a golfer are you? Are you committed? Passionate? The least that you should be is to reflect your current status of being Operationally-Ready NSmen which means that at any given time, when your code is being flashed - be it on your mobile phone, computer, in the cinemas or on radio, your golf bag is already in the car boot and within six hours you'll be at the golf course to whack the daylights out of some dimpled balls. Even carrying your child piggy-backed. Heard the one about the chicken and the pig? They were walking across the street and saw a restaurant's breakfast banner: "Egg and Ham" breakfast for $3! The chicken said: "For that, I have to give a day's work, that's what I called commitment". The pig said: "For that, I have to lay down my life. That's what commitment is." This is the chicken and pig situation. Are you prepared to lay an occasional egg or to give ham?  This is golf as...