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

Recently, a few folks logged on to my blog from Kuwait. That is the 79th country. Then some friends thought that the write up on "The Elderly" was interesting. I told them that I would like to set up a place, a paradise where there is the sun, sand and sea with a 9-hole golf course thrown in and plenty of beer to go around and our slogan for such a retreat for the elderly would be "If you want pretty nurses, you have got to be patient". They sounded happy.   Another who followed my blog closely has been telling me that the articles in my blog were awesome in all kinds of beautiful language all on his own making and made me feel like a million bucks and like a giant but he reminded me that Vincent van Gogh, the genius that he was, killed himself finally. I told him that Ernest Hemingway did the same.  Some asked me how I could find so many things like videos and especially the music as part of the theme? The searching was the easiest part. You have to know y...

A train station is called a little differently depending where you are from or what kind of heritage you have. In Singapore, we call it the railway station (British heritage) while people from the USA may know it as a railroad station. Whatever it is called, it serves the same purpose - it is a facility for trains to stop regularly to unload and load passengers and goods, a connection between two points, two countries and an efficient and cheaper mode of transport. The world's oldest railway station still in use can be found in Liverpool. It was built in 1930 and is on the Liverpool to Manchester line. A terminal or terminus is a station at the end of a rail line. Trains have to end their journey there or reverse out of the station. Hence the railway station. Once when I was in Brussels, in attempting to travel to Brugge, I took a train from the airport to Brussels City centre to connect onto another train but got totally lost in transit as I emerged from the train onto the plat...