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

World Cup It's really only January and spring time comes when the Chinese Lunar New Year comes around and a full year ahead is waiting. Depending on where you are, who you are, life can have very different meaning. We can get preoccupied with our work and life's problems while to others life's hanging in the balance and in tenterhook. Many Singaporean's chief concern right now is whether we get to see the World Cup soccer in South Africa in June and at what price. Our telcos out bid one another to give away several hundred millions to the EPL to lead FIFA to think that to pay a small sum of a hundred million for a month of soccer extravaganza is peanuts. Well, let them carry on with the gamesmanship to see who blink first. It'snot as if you don't have to pay. My take is that an amicable settlement will be reached. It could be FIFA's greed or out telco's way of telling us why we have to pay so much. In the event that we miss out improbable as it seem...

Resolution Many of us would like to forget 2009 as 2010 beckons. In every people and culture, celebrating a new year presents an opportunity to close a door and open a new one. Forget the past and look forward to the future. Like when you go bowling and you couldn't strike nor spare and you wanted to denote that you are going to have a fresh start so you draw a thick line at the end of your last miscue hoping for better returns. This very thought makes people around the world do a resolution list of things to stop doing or to start doing. Weeks and days leading to the end of the year, you start to give yourself pep talks but at the same time realising that it is an onerus task ahead since you have probably achieved little from the previous years' list and with the add-ons the list is getting longer. Just like in the midst of a motivational seminar, hordes of people could even walk on heaps of burning coal and they walk out still feeling smart about the event but as the ...