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

3's a turkey and four's a bagger in bowling and so the festive season came and went so quickly. Christmas, the New Year, the Lunar New Year so that's a turkey.  Everything is coming in earlier these days. I told you about the Lunar New Year cookies being available by Christmas. At the rate we are going, every festival would be jumbled one day. Maybe we will have a crossover or hybrid celebration. Why are we rushing to get ahead of time? Getting ahead can get you behind since the earth is rotating. What did I do for Christmas? W e had family dinner with turkey over the weekend before Christmas of course.  Ham. This can be used as a weapon. Tomatoes, zucchini and lettuce. Potato. Pork ribs. I wonder if they chopped a pig, took out its ribs, do they leave the poor sow to die. If not, why do they do that to sharks? When I was young, I remembered that we only have meat like chicken, duck and so on during festive occasions. So turkey is the new festive ...

Resolution Many of us would like to forget 2009 as 2010 beckons. In every people and culture, celebrating a new year presents an opportunity to close a door and open a new one. Forget the past and look forward to the future. Like when you go bowling and you couldn't strike nor spare and you wanted to denote that you are going to have a fresh start so you draw a thick line at the end of your last miscue hoping for better returns. This very thought makes people around the world do a resolution list of things to stop doing or to start doing. Weeks and days leading to the end of the year, you start to give yourself pep talks but at the same time realising that it is an onerus task ahead since you have probably achieved little from the previous years' list and with the add-ons the list is getting longer. Just like in the midst of a motivational seminar, hordes of people could even walk on heaps of burning coal and they walk out still feeling smart about the event but as the ...