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

Continued from ..... http://gforce-guru.blogspot.sg/2012/08/labrador-park.html This place was once called the "Dragon Teeth Gate", a replica of it looks like this. It is only natural that those in their 50s and those in their 20s see things quite differently, if you still can see things at all. Do you know for example that Admiral Zheng He or Cheng Ho or Ma Sanbao or Haji Mahmud Samsuddin was a Muslim Chinese mariner, explorer who commanded a fleet larger than the US Navy today to South East Asia? I saw reports the he brought Islam into S.E.A.    Some people believe that Admiral Zheng He outdid Christopher Columbus and he actually founded America. They even believe that he was a Cantonese. Legend has it that as his fleet got near American shores, he raised his palm to his brow and spoke in Cantonese: "Ah, Mart Eh Lei Kar?" And his lieutenant said ah Mart Eh Lei Kar, "A-me-ri-ca!"  West is where the sun sets so if you are ...

Singapore as you know can be such an irrelevant place on planet earth. Even when Singapore became successful we are still very tiny and can hardly be seen on the map. Then a huge neighbour that is all green had a President who called us just a "Little Red Dot" on the map. How aptly he described it and the Little Red Dot was well accepted by our then Prime Minister that we made jokes out of it so Singaporeans do have a sense of humour and a sense of perspective. Enterprises were even spawned from it. Quirky as we are with funny habits and quaint way of speaking "Singlish" some of which just have to come along - the good with the bad.  Truly, we too often take the good life for granted as everything here is so convenient and runs like clock work so our complaints are centred around things which seem trivial to many others around the world. Harking back from the old days where streets were dimly lit and in some places in the villages, you could only depend on moon...