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

In the good old days, people reared chickens and ducks to trade or for food. People were poor and they can't even feed themselves sufficiently let alone keep pets. Dogs were kept to keep strangers and pests like snakes away but as society gets more affluent, keeping pets became fashionable. Very often, pets got abandoned needlessly as owners got tired of them. Makes me wonder how many are really animal lovers. I know those who loves animals because they taste good. I have my experience with dogs but when they got given away or died, you will feel sad and forlorn. Yet there are others out there who swear by their feline partners - cats. They think cats got more character and are more intelligent. They feel that dogs are well, just loyal while cats need you to earn their respect. Then there are those who love birds, like golfers.  Rearing fish is another great fascination. Their species are just mind boggling. I mean you don't keep many species of cats and dogs but you c...

Grandma used to have a relative who owns a small fish farm that breeds ornamental fish. They bred Tiger Barb, guppies, Gourami,etc. fishes of that time. They were bred using concrete tanks like the one you see in the picture. I can't remember whether it was at Potong Pasir but I do recall that once when it flooded, many of the fishes escaped into the flood water and perhaps resided later into nearby ponds and drains. In my time those days, you can find fish in every pond and drains or water ways. We tried using nets to catch some and at other times, we would improvise with a bent needle, bent by burning to resemble a hook an fish a few of them. Before, Seletar aspired to be an aviation industry, it was one of the few remaining places in my view that is so lovely be it golfing at the now defunct Seletar Base Golf Club (SBGC), having a walk or drive through and you will still always find fish in drains and water ways. Today's fish farm is on a grander scale. You can bring...