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

Singapore is not the Little Red Dot for nothing. We are still a concrete jungle with pockets of green. When you are in some countries, there are plenty of concrete and little green, in fact, very few trees. There are still many place within the Little Red Dot where you can find acres of green. I find myself extremely comfortable in the midst of nature. So I wandered to a corner of Changi to experience an interesting find which I am sure some of you know. I was early and there were plenty of space to park. I find that Singaporeans worked far too hard. Working hard is a virtue by itself for there is nothing without work - "Nil Sine Labore". But if we were to just work and nothing else, then that is not life. At the end of the day, it is the little things that matter. Anyway, there is a little museum here which I may visit another time some day as it was closed when I came. I saw a man who stood at the gate of the chapel in silence. He must be whispering a pray...

Life is precious. Especially the adventures and fun we have and of the people who have touched our lives. A man can be destroyed but never defeated. There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. Ernest Hemingway told a story of the old man and the sea. Changi to me is like the old man and the sea. I recalled our younger days of going to Changi which seemed so far away as there were few highways and going by bus takes ages to get there. The laid back old world charm is still evidently strong today. It is the only place in Singapore where the birds flying and cackling freely above are green parakeets and white cockatoos that fly to and from Pulau Ubin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKeGQNxjNOA On a lucky day, you can spot migrating big birds. I caught sight of three huge birds recently and walked as close as possible to take a shot. They were hopping sideways on a branch. The only birds that do that are Hornbills and Toucans. What's the...