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

Long ago when I once lived in Toa Payoh, it felt almost like the centre of the universe even though we are in a little red dot. It is convenient to go almost anywhere. Bus stops are all within short walking distance and provisions and food from the market stalls, coffee shops and hawker centres surrounded us. When it is really late, some hawkers opened till way late too. I used to work till way too late those days and got home by 10 pm to 12 am. There is a popular Tze Char stall at the next block, so on the way home I would order my food first, took a shower and then went back to collect my ''wat tan hor fun''. Incredible convenience. If you reside in Australia or New Zealand, you get beautiful houses, big and cheap cars, your own apple trees in the backyard, scenic landscape and perhaps a river or stream behind the house but you could never have this super convenience.  These days the new neighbourhood that is getting old has not much to offer unless you do no...

I have not been golfing as much as I could. However, as I have always mentioned my quote: ''Golf as in life, play as it lies'', I am not done with experiments in life and golf. You have to keep going. So as I reached the next plateau, I have to make decisions like that of an eagle after 40 years. Fly to a corner of a mountain, use its beak to peck away its claw, wait for new claws to grow, use its claw to claw away the beak then wait for a new beak to grow, then peck and claw away its old and heavy feathers for new ones to grow and finally fly away like new and live with excellence for another 30 years. I have decided to go on to forged clubs with yes, steel shafts. Many social golfers have swing speed of 75-85 mph. If you have 95 and above you can play with steel. The goodness of steel has its own draw back. Steel provides more feedback to the discerning golfer which also draw its ire - it also gives more vibration that could cause golf elbow (like tennis elbo...