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

Everything needs navigation. Ships, planes and even today's cars have GPS navigation. Navigation is the process of controlling the movement of a vehicle or craft from one place to another. We also have radio, radar, satellite and celestial navigation. You have to know about latitude and longitude. To measure longitude accurately, you need to use the precision of a marine chronometer. The chronometer is set at GMT. Quartz crystal marine chronometer are even better as they are even more accurate.  Another critical component of navigation is the sextant. It is an optical instrument to measure the angle formed at the observer's eye and the horizon. Life is just like that. We have to navigate - sometimes we encounter engine trouble (like recessions), rough seas and bad weather or bumped into pirates. I have previously written articles about "Ships" and "Gyroscope" which were well received.  http://gforce-guru.blogspot.com/2010/10/ships.html htt...

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 ...

Et Cetera is a Latin word that means "other things" or "and so forth" where "et" means "and" and "cetera" means "the rest". It morphed into a single word etcetera and finally shortened as an abbreviation as "etc." The Noose The Best Actress in Singapore is Michelle Chong. All you need to do is to tune in to The Noose if you do not believe me. She could speak like a Singaporean, a bimbo, a Hong Konger or Filipino at least with that accent and act the part. The satire and spoofs are good for the soul. Singaporeans do have a sense of humour - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2k_xNe7vW4 Do not miss this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuYU6JwvQ5k Watch this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RXlM1UvQKM More spoof from the cast of Michelle Chong, Chua En Lai (esp as B B See), Alaric Tay and Suhaimi Yusoff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWdclEjbpWw Tissues to "chope" seats - http://www.youtube.co...