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

Everything is out there. You now know who are the candidates and know them a little better. You hear some rumours, controversies and there were some hue and cry. Unions and clans gave endorsements, the hopefuls go around shaking hands. Every voter has a different reason why they may like to vote for a certain candidate. Strangely, everyone tried to distance themselves from a certain party or at least tried to show that they are independent or have an independent mind but they are all from the fraternity really. If not a political party or its affiliation or working with the government. I wrote a short article on it last week: http://gforce-guru.blogspot.com/2011/08/all-presidents-men.html . Based on looks alone, a few people told me that it has to be Dr. Tony Tan or for his experience but that is also quite possible that it is because he has the best press coverage over the years or in the news, a familiar face. Yet he is the closest to the government. If it were for looks, I ...

For those who do not work on Saturdays, 27 August 2011 will provide you a day of leave in lieu because of the Presidential Election. It used to be just that - a non-event but not this time as the remnants of the recent election had shown. In Singapore, we are always special. Talented students and clever children who do not fall in line may be deemed stupid or trouble makers in school just because their interest or passion some of which are not discovered does not match our system. Some of us at a much older age now have yet to discover our talents too. Floods in Orchard Road we react like it was a tsunami. Although I do not think it is proper to boo presidential candidates, it is still mild as in other countries hoodlums take to the streets. National Day was always a great spectacle for me on TV and my favourite portion was the army and uniformed groups matching and the military parading their equipment. I remember my late grandmother who was always telling who the President and P...