Human Race / Ping K15

You know the words Gong Xi Raya was coined when Chinese Lunar New Year was very close to Hari Raya. Retailers and commercialization kicks in very quickly each year as you will see Christmas decors going up as early as November maybe October and quickly followed by Lunar New Year decorations. They are getting up so fast that it makes sense to leave them all on and we just celebrate throughout the year.

In the midst of the worst recession ever, they are selling houses that are being taken up like they are free and those with only 99 year lease on some previously unwanted areas are sold for more than a thousand dollars per square foot. Bigger and more cars are getting onto the roads. Low wage workers like me are feeling the squeeze even if it seems unreal. Am I missing out on all the excitement? I must have been doing something wrong while everybody is doing something right? The world is passing me by? I pinched myself saying "Is this real?"

Every country, every company, every fathers, mothers and their sons and daughters are pushing it to the brim for excellence, for more, to be number one, to produce more, faster and better. When do we reach exhaustion? For example, I have been thinking of sharpening my golf weaponry and mulling over it for quite awhile not just searching but also hoping to apply some method to madness plus to feel less guilty to splurge a little when things turn a bit rosy. After reviewing the Ping G15 series of driver, fairway wood, hybrid and irons and where the ratings were giving the big thumbs up and like Jaws - "just when you think it is safe to go back to the waters", Ping had just released a new series called "Ping K15" series of the whole works of drivers, fairway wood, hybrid and irons. This is unusual as Ping just released the G15 last year to great acclaim. Just so unPing. Could it be TaylorMade famous for their relentless marketing and release of a slew of new products forcing their hands?

Ping K15

Don't believe me, take a look at it yourselves.












While the G15 is Game Improvement, the new release K15 is touted as Super Game Improvement. More weight is positioned towards the heel to help time your release to prevent a slice and most suitable for slicers and those who fade too much. Ping calls it SF Tec or Straight Flight Technology. They are engineered to help golfers bring their shots back on line and into play. For the driver and fairway woods this is achieved by concentrating more weight in the sole nearer the heel. The technology is visible and helps players rotate the club face to square on impact. Bigger heads also result in greater forgiveness and increased ball speed. The K15 iron/hybrid set is designed to bring consistency. The set configuration offers 5 & 6 irons as well as hybrids. The iron has large titanium face with 17-4 stainless steel body with the weight saved from the light Titanium face allocated to the sole and perimeter for accuracy and distance. Maybe this is meant to replace the other Super Game Improvement series of the Ping Rapture V2 series to assist an easy take off and shoot straight but while the G15 are from Stainless Steel for the irons the Rapture and K15 mixed it up with both stainless steel with a Titanium face. Once Titanium is n the face, prices go up a notch. Do not forget that Ping is the best club-fitter in the game. Just settle for G15?

Well, I guess I finally knew and understood the meaning of the human race. It is not a race as in the types of people from certain descendants or of a distinctive variety, birth, family or lineage. All men are brothers. It is a race like the act of running and moving rapidly and in constant competition or a contest involving speed and strength or of being swifter than others. That is the human race. If this is the human race then we are no different from the rat race where at the end of the race you are still a rat. Gnat, gnat. Gnaw, gnaw. A rodent's life.
To borrow a quote from Bertrand Russell: Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

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