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

If I were any better I would be twins. Now tiny Singapore has so many parks and park connectors to keep us in touch with nature. Sungei Buloh is always interesting. The wall murals at the entrance shows you the variety. And the painting too..... Needle fish, halfbeak and archer fish can be seen in the waters. It is not often but on your lucky day you can see them...crocodiles. We spotted a young black viper - a snake with deadly venom on a tree branch. It was exciting and made the trip worthwhile. Squirrels are aplenty. They are everywhere. It is not easy to shoot a squirrel as they move very quickly. Hyperactive like some of us. We thought we saw a croc. It was still and look like a log. But I saw it changed angle and position. It really did. If you see a croc in the wild and in an enclosed environment it is quite different feeling. Monitor lizards are all over. I took this shot h...

Do you live to eat or eat to live? Sometimes you are not sure like standing over a golf ball on the green not knowing if the break is left or right so you just go straight and hope for the best. In days of old, all the food people are highly skilled practitioners who took great pride in peddling their food. Whether it is your prawn noodle, mee rebus, mee siam, satay, chee cheong fun or hor fun they tasted good mostly and were healthier. For every dish they prepared, they do all the ingredients by themselves. Today's food mostly come from a central kitchen somewhere or they sourced the ingredients from a supplier. In fact, some are completely supplied to them. The worst food are those they cooked in advance and then when you order, they just heat it up and serve. No food should be prepared and served that way! You walk into a food court and you see the same food everywhere - minced meat/mushroom noodle, chicken rice, roast pork, duck rice, fried kway teow, Korean food, Japanese...