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

Tribute To Dr. Goh Keng Swee I used to hear some adult talks when I was young that he was the brains behind the Singapore success story. You name it and he has his fingerprints and footprints all over the places - MOE, SAF, Jurong Industrial Park, JTC, GIC, MAS, EDB, NTUC Fairprice, PSA, NOL, The Zoo, Bird Park, SSO, Underwater World, SRU and countless others. All these were started from scratch. He started Defence by reading a book. He was responsible for Singapore's economic miracle. In fact his economic miracle did not just benefited Singapore but also many other countries in Asia today for when Singapore became costlier, the factories relocated under similar concepts. If any one of us were to succeed in just one arena it would have been incredible but what expletives or tributes could you pay to such a great man?  Yet many lesser men with a small achievement under his belt would be boasting endlessly but here is a man who gave his life for his fellow men. That he is a g...

Someone said - I have a hunch that men are pigs. If I were you, I'll rather not. Look what happened to Quasimodo (Hunchback of Notre Dame). He had a hunch too. I'm was on leave and decided to pen this. Sometimes, I just need a day off to have a different pace of life. I could wake up late, watch a movie, read the papers casually, run errands. It's on days like these that I could experience a different facet of life like watching workers clear the rubbish from the estate. I learn to appreciate them.  I saw two yellow birds chirping and flying around. Hearing morning birds singing is a good therapy. I smell the roses. In the meantime, as I flipped through the papers, some controversy arose which is inevitable following Tiger Woods' fall from grace. Whether you like it or not, golfers are affected and tainted. The first group are golfers who ply the circuit like Tiger or some other pros. Sorry, maybe the correct word is "prowl" as in pro...