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

Singapore as you know can be such an irrelevant place on planet earth. Even when Singapore became successful we are still very tiny and can hardly be seen on the map. Then a huge neighbour that is all green had a President who called us just a "Little Red Dot" on the map. How aptly he described it and the Little Red Dot was well accepted by our then Prime Minister that we made jokes out of it so Singaporeans do have a sense of humour and a sense of perspective. Enterprises were even spawned from it. Quirky as we are with funny habits and quaint way of speaking "Singlish" some of which just have to come along - the good with the bad.  Truly, we too often take the good life for granted as everything here is so convenient and runs like clock work so our complaints are centred around things which seem trivial to many others around the world. Harking back from the old days where streets were dimly lit and in some places in the villages, you could only depend on moon...

Ping Pong diplomacy was coined in the old days when Chinese and Ameerican head of states met diplomatically. This became a way of promoting friendship. The Chinese are so good at their chosen sports that today especially in ping pong or table tennis, they have nationals that have migrated and became a new citizen in a new country. Let's say you look at a competition schedule and it stated UK vs France and then the game is beamed live you would see two Chinese players at each other. When the greatness and mystery was unveiled, the world saw two of the greatest badminton and China's most legendary players in Tang aka The Thing and Hou who took the world by storm. The same could not be said of their soccer team but given their size and population, probability tells us that they could find Pele, Maradona, George Best, Lionel Messi, Beckanbauer there and possibly all at the same time too. But they would need to be imparted experience and knowledge from the best pros and their tra...