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

Labrador Park and its nature reserve is a special and historical place. Many brave men once defended our shores. We ought to have a soccer team in the S-League named as Pasir Panjang Warriors. Not only that, there was once way back in 1979, at the turn of the decade on 31 December that a group of friends aged between 18-20 that came together and we stayed over the night as we were all at a stage in life where we knew we were moving on in life. Where to we were unsure.  Some in NS, some going in, some may be relocating and our hobbies would change and so too our life in the near future. None said so but we knew it and we just wanted to be there for that one moment in history.  I remembered most names of the people who were there that night from dusk to dawn. I can't remember the exact spot we set up base camp but some names of the people who were there - Benson Loh (our recce leader), Barry Chua (scout), Ben Hwang,  Lionel Teng and James Loy, Velu (Loy's neighbour), N

The Chinese 7th month Hungry Ghost Festival is here soon. When I was little, I was confused and befuddled so I asked an innocent question and got pounded by elders for being disrespectful. All I said was if the people we knew went to Heaven after they have passed on then how come they got released from Hell during the 7th month?  Yet I have know of people who are said to have the third eye as they see "things" that normal people don't and so they have told me that during the 7th month, they don't like to look around as from what they saw, they were unsure if they are humans or things from  another dimension, from the twilight zone:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmySdCD77Y&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ8Mp_08rwk  (Manhattan Transfer) We have also heard those scary stories on Rediffusion or watched ghost story on television: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNt69zZx1Q    (Ghost Story, TV) or simply eavesdropping on the adults' conve

To truly understand some one, you have to live in their world. Otherwise, we just thought we understood. This is also what made top men weep when they discovered the wonder of people who work for them when they did the "Undercover Boss". Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjYzrNVY3-U You have to do their work and live their lives to remind yourself to be humble and the idea of paradise is not the same for everyone.  Eat the same, work the same, receive the same treatment and look at things from their angle even to be in the world of giant isopods. We have to understand people and issues better and deeper rather than to pass judgement. Otherwise, we are just being superficial. Worse, we engage in gossip. Just like people, there are all kinds of fish out there. Find something innately good in them and you will find them but people tend to be self-righteous and judgemental and they talk about others. "Look at those children, they have no manners. Why