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...

Singapore as you know can be such an irrelevant place on planet earth. Even when Singapore became successful we are still very tiny and can hardly be seen on the map. Then a huge neighbour that is all green had a President who called us just a "Little Red Dot" on the map. How aptly he described it and the Little Red Dot was well accepted by our then Prime Minister that we made jokes out of it so Singaporeans do have a sense of humour and a sense of perspective. Enterprises were even spawned from it. Quirky as we are with funny habits and quaint way of speaking "Singlish" some of which just have to come along - the good with the bad.  Truly, we too often take the good life for granted as everything here is so convenient and runs like clock work so our complaints are centred around things which seem trivial to many others around the world. Harking back from the old days where streets were dimly lit and in some places in the villages, you could only depend on moon...