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

Last week I published "VS135" and "Running In The Family" among others. It drew some responses from friends. An old friend wrote: "Geoff, this is perhaps your best about VS and family. Those were the 70s, Toa Payoh and as you have said, the age of innocence." But I have been "bested" umpteen times, for soccer articles, Bruce Lee or whatever. Another long lost friend from school - secondary one distinguished classmate of mine who received my article forwarded to him said: "Geoff, what a nostalgic walk. It was like walking with the Victorians. Interesting, I can recognise the teachers...Thanks for the wonderful collation of shots and the warm and tender writing. Received with much fondness of a wonderful time..." Recently Albania logged on to be the 89th country. I am travelling and going places with the butt firmly in place and feet on the ground. How I wish we have the luxury of time to travel to all the places and making so many ...

This is a must-read article. If something is not good, it will not appear on my blog. By the way someone in Ghana became the 67th country to reach my blog. Most of us think that we are still fit but only aging a bit somewhat. I asked around and found that it is quite common for folks to fall asleep at the sofa after a hard day's work. More and more often, we may even feel sapped of energy and mostly lethargic. I got to hear more people having all kinds of symptoms of health issues even among the healthy ones. Some have allergies, knee problems, sleeping problems, pain in hips, back and shoulder aches, headaches and migraine. A host of issues can be found in most if not all of us. After a while, we began thinking that well this is probably part of aging. It comes as a package in life. Some of us have moderately high to high cholesterol, raised blood pressure, gastritis or indigestion, we may have even lost our usual appetite for meals and we could have no more energy for exer...