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

People wish one another a Happy and Prosperous New Year every year as we cross over from 31 December into 1 January. It is the time of the year where there are great festivities as it is just after Christmas and then following it the Lunar New Year. It is also a special time of the year because whatever you have been doing for the year, you have worked hard and deserve a good closure especially with a handsome bonus. Whatever it is, do not forget your acquaintance. Here's Auld Lang Syne. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rId95N2teUc However, in recent times, things have become difficult and more complex. Because things are more costly or venues more difficult to get, some companies actually host their D and D way ahead of Christmas and as early as July or August but at this time of the year you are still struggling with work and you are robbed of the festive spirit or mood. Why don't they keep it closer to Christmas but change the venues to possibly cheaper ones or tho...

This is exciting. I'm falling in love again. We are on honeymoon now.  She has presence. The Titleist 910 D2 golf driver, I mean. Titleist has always been known or said to be the "better players" club. It was quite true. Their 905 series was hugely popular and it took a dip after that when they attempted building a more forgiving driver in the 907 and the 909. I played with a couple of Malaysian friends in KL some time back and they were both very good golfers using Titleist drivers. No matter how straight and far I hit, they were straighter and longer. May be they are just better and can handle it I thought. I researched and found that Titleist clubs are always among the top and highly rated but there were some mention that they are for better players. Before TaylorMade's R11 was introduced, the 910 was one of the hottest but Titleist has loyal fans and you can say that all better players who played Titleist are staunch followers. They seldom gr...

The Boxing Day curse hath cometh. Manchester City was held to a goalless away draw by WBA. Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal were all held 1-1 at home by Blackburn, Fulham and Wolves respectively. From Christmas, we are heading into the New Year of 2012. Can Manchester City fend off their United namesake? Can Tottenham win the League? Who will be number 4? Liverpool, Chelsea or Arsenal? Or maybe the others currently in the top three. Will you stand up and say: "I am Number Four!" This is what happens when you are number four. You will have to live dangerously, watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVs6eg8V-AE Liverpool v Newcastle  - Liverpool lost precious points to Blackburn at home. Their first crime was allowing Blackburn to score first and they clawed their way back but it was not enough. If you do not skin Blackburn at home at this point in time, others will. Liverpool was dismal. If they continue in this fashion, they will miss Europe. Newcastle returned to winning ...

Liverpool FC was once in the lower division and Leeds United, a mighty force under Don Revie is now languishing in a lower division. Singapore squash was once number six in the world and in waterpolo, we have won every gold medal at the SEA Games. Why the contrasting fortunes? What about Singapore soccer? Whereto from here? There was a time where a local game between two top league teams that can bring in a crowd of 20,000 and regularly at Kallang, we have crowds of 50-60,000 packing the stadiums for a Malaysia Cup match. Why? There were rivalry, stars and legends, there was success, therefore there was huge interest and there was euphoria. Young people started picking up the sports as they wanted to play soccer like Quah Kim Song and Mohamed Noh or play squash like Zainal Abideen. Squash courts were opening up everywhere from Kampong Java to Kallang and they were always packed. In soccer, we had the golden and crazy years when the late and legendary Uncle Choo Seng Quee broug...

Christmas, so what did I do? We had a small family celebration at Costa Sands @ Pasir Ris. This one is better than the Downtown East in my humble opinion. When having a little break, we walked down to e-hub Downtown East to visit the lovely pond with big fish like Pacu. There was this huge tent and it looked like was in the Arabian or Mongolian desserts or some kind of mother ship to take you away. Big departmental stores held their sales there. We did the turkey on the eve of Christmas eve. Then we hammed it in. Fabulous! I tried to be conservative. Then I added beef to my plate. Certain food has to be consumed with some fats. We did dancing like para para, volleyball, javelin, long jump and various other sports using the X-Box Kinetics. Young and old can do it. On the actual Christmas Eve, I visited the House of Red Rock. I had - one beer. Ahem. And collected some bottle caps. On Christmas Day, I was invited to the Indoor ...