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

Who would win if the Chicago Bulls play against the Tamil Tigers? The game is going to be a blast. Sometimes people like to give fancy names to make things interesting. The Eagles are in Geylang while the Dolphins are in Sengkang. How many of you know that? Geylang is actually famous for Beef Hor Fun, Frog legs porridge and where you will find the world's oldest profession - the chick trade.  Now that is crying fowl. As a young boy watching black and white TV, the most popular sport on TV back then was wrestling if it's considered one. That was the influence because all the fathers and uncles were watching it. Usually those who wore black or anything that look remotely black are the baddies. So as a young kid, when I got to watch the first soccer match on TV (we called it "football' back then), my first question was which team is the good one?  Was the one in darker attire the bad ones? Many poorer families who do not own a television set at home have to go to a c...

Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the one with the Golden Ball? Once in awhile, comes a genius of a soccer player who whenever a ball is at his feet, you expect something special to happen. I was indoctrinated and soccer crazy when I was at Victoria School since the school A, B and C teams are usually in some kind of semi-finals and finals. We watched our teams played in our very good school field where even the National Team used to train where we watched our famous 1977 Malaysia Cup winning team trained under the eagle-eyed late and legendary Uncle Choo. Then the highlights of the 1970 World Cup "The World at Their Feet" captured my imagination at the time they were ushering the 1974 World Cup. That was where I embarked on a journey of acquiring soccer knowledge with dosiers of Eusebio the Portuguese Black Panther, the world's best goalie Gordon Banks, the great Bobby Moore, the unstoppable and thundering shots of Bobby Charlton, the first and ever world cup h...