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

The Singapore passport is another example of how we are being valued and viewed. It is invaluable.  I savoured a last cold one for the road on a red-eyed flight. The land of the rising sun awaits. I have not been back to Tokyo since more than 10 years ago. Absence makes the heart grow fonder they say. I did a weather check. It was going to be cold. Maybe my eyes were red when I got there as I did not get any real shut eye. A young child was crying nearby where I sat. I decided to watch a movie "The Imitation Game''. It was an interesting movie. I fell asleep after that with intermittent disruption. Arriving Haneda, I wanted to save some dough but when I looked at the sign for train services, I gave up. There must have been at least five service providers and countless lines and stations. Maybe Tokyo/Japan have the world's best train services?  I got to Shimbashi early. It was cold. I left my baggage at the hotel to get a stroll and to find breakfast. Th...

Bulgaria came on my blog recently. Welcome. The US and Europe economies are in bad shape leaving us stranded again before we can take off. They are doing so badly that the only banks left doing so so are the sperm banks and even one sperm donor can have 150 offsprings that it is threatening the human race in another way. So if you don't cut it as a perm sec then be a sperm sec. The state of the economy is too depressing so let's talk about food. We still need to eat right? I had puffer fish once and did not die after I saw the others eating it and they didn't die. I had this at Tomoe (Thomson Road) - the Fugu Mirinboshi, a dried sweet puffer fish which tasted like "bak kwa", our Chinese BBQ pork. We had Bliss at Punggol Park for quite awhile, it was a popular hang out but has moved out and I read about the Wild Rocket's good food and that they had opened a joint where Bliss was called Wild Oats. We did the Mojito. Hmmm, not b...