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

While I was travelling, I have to miss Game Week 18 but just in time to catch up with Game Week 19. Wow! A lot has happened during this time.  Jose Mourinho was sacked. Manchester United under interim manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer started winning in style. I said from the beginning it was wrong for United to have appointed Mourinho. Mourinho never groom young players, plays negative football and never lasted three years anywhere. Next time, he lifted up three fingers, it would not be about the three title he won but to indicate that he never lasted three years and he got the sack three times.  In this time, Liverpool increased their one point lead at the top of the table to now have a six point lead over second placed Tottenham as Champions Manchester City floundered twice in a row (2-3 to Palace at home and 1-2 to Leicester away).The Reds have even levelled City's goal difference having scored eight goals less but conceded eight goals less.  Tottenh...

Tis the season to be jolly! December and the Christmas can make or break teams as the fixtures pile up. There will be injuries and suspension among others. Last weak brought some interesting situation and results. Liverpool up the ante with an impressive 4-0 away win over Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium.  The Reds were full of vitality and the result was vital. Bournemouth has been at their best this season so it can't be an easy place to visit but Liverpool were in control but firstly Alisson Becker showed what Liverpool has been missing all this time and should have been here few seasons ago. Virgil van Dijk has been the other reason and even with Joe Gomez injured they now have the best defence in the Premier League as the stats showed. 16 matches and 6 conceded and now owned their best record in a season with 42 points. If their defence were impregnable, their midfield displayed the potential with James Milner collecting his 500th games in the Premier League. Naby Keit...

More than eight years ago, I have mentioned about Singapore losing our food culture, especially the hawker food culture. When I was a little boy, we would gather at my maternal grandmother's place each Sunday where grandma, my mum and her sisters would whipped out a storm especially for dinner at grandma's huge kitchen to feed the entire clan. Mum would continue to cook for us  the same recipe from grandma's time and add on to the list with her own. Nobody does that these days do they? So, it will die a natural death over time or in a generation or two. Our street or hawker food is the same. I had the fortune of experiencing our hawker culture almost from ground zero and saw, tasted and lived through how they have evolved. As a result, every time I eat something my memory runs wild to the good old days and I try to recall when and where was the first time I ate that particular food. Street food have evolved and they will find their footing on every street around the ...