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

Last week threw up some surprises here and there or else much remains the same. Fulham won 3-2 at home and that was some Dilly Ding Dilly Dong stuff from Claudio Ranieri as I predicted. Manchester United limping to a 0-0 draw at the Theatre of Dreams against lowly Crystal Palace no longer have any effect on their fans because it is no longer a shock as it is a new low. Arsenal won 2-1 away to in-form Bournemouth stretched their record of being unbeaten since having lost their opening two matches. Manchester City's 4-0 away win at West Ham and Liverpool's 3-0 away win at Watford meant they are the only unbeaten teams till now. It is like let us see who will blink first. Tottenham's 3-1 win over Chelsea showed something different as both were good to win but it was the way Tottenham played and the way Chelsea meekly surrendered and conceded two goals in the 8th and 16th minute and by the 54th minute it was game over that gave us all something to ponder. Wolves's 0-2 home...

They say the golf shaft is the engine of the club. As I have to re-engineer my game, I have shifted from steel shaft to graphite and I have also chosen lighter shafts. These days, the technology in graphite shafts have made leaps and bounds. If you have played steel shafts before in your irons which are your bread and butter clubs, the you will know the feel of steel shafts are so true and pure. Then UST Mamiya introduced their ground-breaking graphite shafts that plays and feels like steel shafts and the original model even looks like steel. That was a few years ago and the "Recoil" is said to be more efficient than steel and more responsive than the old graphite with more precise distance and control, better feel with accuracy. As I have an older set of very wonderful irons - the TaylorMade RSi 1 that was with steel shaft, I was tinkering with the idea of switching them to graphite otherwise it is such a shame for not playing them. While I could still play with steel (...

The International break for friendly internationals and the European Nations League is or is not a welcomed relief? It offers a break to do other things other than sitting in front of a TV. Stars of the Premier League are all over the planet. The English had a good friendly win over the USA by 3-0. Jesse Lingard scored a wonder goal that resembled the one he scored in the World Cup. Liverpool's young right back Trent Alexander Arnold scored his first international goal and was named Man-Of-The-Match. Wayne Rooney got his final and 120th international cap and realised how time quickly eclipsed all of us when 18 year old Jadon Sancho gave another impressive display despite his tender age just days after helping Borussia Dortmund win 3-2 against Bayern Munich. Callum Wilson - Bournemouth's top scorer had a dream debut when he scored the third. More on Jadon Sancho - he left Manchester City because he wanted to pay first team football. Admirable and brave decision for one so ...

Last weekend everywhere, soccer officials, players and fans paid their last respect to Leicester City boss Vichai. The most solemn of solemn occasion was of course found at Cardiff where the Foxes played away. The entire Leicester team looked sad in particular as the camera zoomed in on Jamie Vardy and especially Kasper Schmeichel who was tearing. Even the Cardiff bench looked sad. As the camera shifted to the crowd in the terraces, many were red-eyed. After all, soccer cannot be more important than life. It was very emotional and when Leicester won 1-0 it was befitting the occasion. What marred the event was when Demarai Gray scored and removed his top to revealed a tribute "for Khun Vichai" and the referee booked him with a yellow card which is correct according to FIFA rules but even as the referee looked gutted for his decision, may have criticised him. Could he not have made an exception? On the other hand, what if some one else also remove his top in future to reveal a...

Odyssey is synonymous with putters. Ely Callaway became successful with textiles and vineyards and he was also an avid golfer. His favourite golf club brand was Hickory Sticks whom he later bought over fully in 1984 and renamed  it Callaway. Much later in 1996, he also hired Roger Cleveland, founder of Cleveland Golf to design Callaway wedges. By 1997, Callaway also bough over Odyssey Sports famous for their putters. In 2017 Odyssey launched the O Works putter range. There are so many type of putters and exploring which one really works for you takes some time. There are the very expensive CNC-milled and there are those that are cast with inserts. Then there are the mallets, half mallets and blades. CNC milled putters are machined out of a solid piece of steel and the process creates an extremely precise outcome with pure tolerances.  Not only that, what about the different necks and hosels? Are you a straight putter or do you putt in an arc? Of course the chunk...

What is a summer house? It is a small building in a garden used for sitting in during fine weather like during summer. If you are wealthy your summer house could be a bespoke luxury summer house. Some of you are already living in a summer house. If you are a king, your summer house could be a palace and so you call it summer palace or perhaps an entire precinct or country side is yours. In Singapore everybody lives in a summer house but not all comes with a garden or lush landscape. If you, like me have visited Seletar Base frequently in the past, you will know the history of the place being a British Army Camp, then an SAF Camp. There have always been quaint places in it, every road name is of course British and whenever you went there, you could surely feel that you were immersed into a British countryside. Birds chirping in the morning, fish in almost every drain, the flora and fauna and of course the lovely black and white colonial houses and bungalows. Of course if you lived ...

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others perished when his helicopter crashed outside the King Power Stadium. The helicopter lost control during take off just after his club Leicester City drew 1-1 with West Ham. This is shocking and tragic. RIP. His adventure in taking Leicester City to the Premiuer League title against all odds will never be forgotten. Ranked 5,000 to 1 in the 2015-16 season, Leicester were crowned Champions! He will be immortalised. You will also remember him whenever you visit Thailand and see his duty free shop "King Power Duty Free. His legacy shall live on forever. Meanwhile back to the Premier League, after last week's matches, Manchester City reclaimed top spot by virtue of their superior goal difference as they have eight more goals than Liverpool. Both sides have yet to blink as they continued their slight dominance over the rest. Chelsea equipped themselves very well just two points behind the leaders with Arsenal four behind and Tottenham five ...