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

Last week I published "VS135" and "Running In The Family" among others. It drew some responses from friends. An old friend wrote: "Geoff, this is perhaps your best about VS and family. Those were the 70s, Toa Payoh and as you have said, the age of innocence." But I have been "bested" umpteen times, for soccer articles, Bruce Lee or whatever. Another long lost friend from school - secondary one distinguished classmate of mine who received my article forwarded to him said: "Geoff, what a nostalgic walk. It was like walking with the Victorians. Interesting, I can recognise the teachers...Thanks for the wonderful collation of shots and the warm and tender writing. Received with much fondness of a wonderful time..." Recently Albania logged on to be the 89th country. I am travelling and going places with the butt firmly in place and feet on the ground. How I wish we have the luxury of time to travel to all the places and making so many ...

When we were little kids (actually kids are baby goats), ok when we were children, we would often play "police and thieves" and ran about but before that we have to decide who is to be in which team and we would go "apple or orange" so that the captain can make a guess and if you were captain and you get one whose performance is more like squeezed orange than orange, you feel a sense of defeat. Also what if Isaac Newton got hit by a durian or golf ball rather than an apple? So we learn early about apples but none of us founded Apple. When I released the first of a seven-part series on Bruce Lee, I realized there are still a lot of Bruce Lee fans out there. Some could not contain their excitement and they rang me up or wrote to me telling me they enjoyed the articles tremendously and asked what else was coming up in the upcoming articles. I told them that what I will put forth will be things they never knew like what was Bruce like as a person, his fears, his bod...

I wanted to share this but I have been putting it off. Why put off something till tomorrow when you can put if off today? If you didn't catch it, you are slow. The proper saying is why put off something till tomorrow when you can complete it today? Well, it depends on your situation. Some folks are too hung up and they have this feeling that they must finish everything if not as much as possible by today while others keep putting of things till their "to do" list reach 101. I woke up one day on a weekend before 7am and wanted to "just do it". You are not going to believe this - I went for a run and complete all of 2.4 km. You laugh. I can hear you snickering. Believe you me, it isn't easy as the last time I did this may have been 2.4 years ago. As I ran, a man who looks slightly older than me but with fair skin indicating that he was not much of a sportsman whisked past me. Shortly, a young lady casually ran past. Shame crept i...