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

I am not sure if I could give the title as Singapore Monitor anymore because the more I write about issues of life the more I find that wherever you may be, whatever your station in life, whichever period you may be in, however you are, we the human race are always in the same boat going on a journey but yet instead of pulling together we go in different direction because of pride, ego and selfishness. Not until a super storm that threatens to destroy all asunder on the boat do we wake up and begin to realise we have to overcome together like the Brotherhood of Man. Even if we have the brotherhood of man, there will be someone who will seize power, take all the money and manipulate. Life is indeed so fragile and unpredictable and we are all subjected to the vagaries of life bar none but yet many live recklessly. An old friend of mine recently read about Robin Williams and said to me that from what he read he saw quite a high percentage of the personality in me. I was wondering if ...

Ministerial Pay Everybody's talking about ministerial pay. Of course you must pay your ministers well so they must have enough and not worried about these things like us as they have bigger things to do and not get caught in a vicious cycle of mundane stuffs.  We should not begrudge them. We want our leaders to stand tall and hold their own against the world's best.  But I suspect that many like me feel strongly that while you do not want people to get into politics for power and other forms of  money, you do not  want people to go into politics asking what's in it for me.  If you feel smaller because your salary is less than those you are working with or talking to, then there is no business for you to be there or anywhere. President Obama should then be ashamed to be talking to Bill Gates, Warren Buffet or even Michael Bloomberg. A policeman ought to be ashamed to issue a summon to the owner of a Jaguar. Meanwhile, corruption is of the mind and soul o...