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

The last time I shared with you was when I visited the Summer House. In the vicinity, there are many new and old places and some not too old and not so new. In my book, not everything new is nice and good. It could be just newer and more modern or given a fresh coat of paint. Perhaps even a new name. Some people even moved away from their past and change their own names. Not everything that glitters is gold as they say. https://gforce-guru.blogspot.com/2018/11/summer-house.html (previous post on the Summer House) Way before the Summer House was the Wheeler's Estate. It is about hanging out and hanging loose. Seletar has never failed to transport you to a new place. You do not really know that you are in Singapore. I have some wonderful years here because of the Golf Clubs. There is also a quaint little zoo nearby in case you are not aware. I shared tow years ago (see below link). https://gforce-guru.blogspot.com/2015/10/animal-resort.html I...

Gordon Banks I never really followed soccer till secondary school. It was a soccer crazy school and Singapore was playing in the Malaysia Cup. The only soccer we had were on TV was an hour of weekly highlights of the previous week's matches of the old English First Division  and everything was in black and white.  All we heard about were the legends of the games. One of our teachers Mr. Harry Lim was also our school soccer team's coach and he was a very passionate fan of the game we fondly called football. In between teaching or after completing what he has to teach, he would surely talk about the previous week's Malaysia Cup match especially about how good Quah Kim Song was. Sometimes, he would share with us about Bobby Charlton and yes, Gordan Banks. Even people who aren't really soccer fans knew how Charlton and Banks were. In 1974, the World Cup soccer was held in the then West Germany. This was the year that colour television was introduced to Singapore wh...

Tottenham moved up to second albeit temporarily as Newcastle could not repeat their great feat of defeating City a week ago. Brighton and Watford played to a predictable, boring draw. I shall coined it a 'braw' which is a boring draw. Burnley rescued a point with a 90+4 minutes penalty against Southampton. Crystal Palace defeated Fulham whose great effort last week against Brighton has come to nought. Chelsea crushed badly by Bournemouth a match ago bounced back to 4th with great conviction crushing Huddersfiled. Everton were humiliated at  home by Wolves while Cardiff shocked Bournemouth who were so brilliant against Chelsea in their previous match. Solsjkaer and the Red  Lucky Devils had their unbeaten run extended with an away win at Leicester and Manchester City piled on the pressure on Liverpool when they had Arsenal beaten to 5th place ( now behind United by a point). Liverpool did not capitalised when they were held to cons...

I grew up playing many different sports and represented school and also in class games in sports I was not even really interested in. They needed people so I went to help even in volleyball, basketball, table-tennis and hockey. For the latter, I even won a medal. Haha. My all-time favourite is soccer. There is so much to do with soccer and one could express oneself in so many ways. I love badminton too. It is just the most elegant sport. Squash too is frenetic, fast and furious. Bowling is just so graceful and then we have golf. Looks so simple and seems so easy. Just stand there and hit the ball right? Do not be fooled. During my youth, most of us do not have the luxury of wearing proper sports shoes. We just made do with whatever is available. You are lucky enough if you own a pair of Bata's Badminton Master where you actually wore as school shoes and then play badminton with it. In secondary school if you sport a pair of "Panther" you thought you look suave. Panth...

There was a huge upset in game week 24 when Newcastle United led by former Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez did the improbable bey beating Champions Manchester City at St. James Park (2-1). This has huge implication on the title race but Liverpool did not make full use of the advantage as they were held 1-1 at Anfield by Leicester who played a good game. This means that Liverpool up just a point more to lead by five. With 14 matches left, it is still anybody's game. This may go down to the wire.  Tottenham v Newcastle - Tottenham are having many key players missing through injury and morale are not at the usual high as they slumped to a 0-2 defeat by Crystal Palace in the F.A. Cup but bounced back with a 2-1 win over Watford keeping them in third place and seven points ahead of fourth.  Meanwhile, the Magpies did Liverpool a big favour with an unlikely upset of Manchester City (2-1). This is a big result for the Magpies who are now five points clear from the relegation zone. De...