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

I have been postponing this trip for far too long because I was ignorant thinking there are still tigers there. Fortunately, I found a car park slot immediately upon arrival. We love to go a wandering along the mountain track and as we go we love to bring my napsack on my back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTWpbSHwVjw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0zx-J4VW2k Welcome to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve (accompanied by new age music of David Arkenstone and Secret Garden). I told you there were tigers there! In fact, it was once infested with tigers. It was an uphill climb. This is an easier route, at least it is paved. There is a time chart that tells you how long it takes to cover each route for a lay person. The senior looking Ranger told me he needs only half the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Am2vYSgOc The foliage. Can be quite dense in other parts. http://www.youtub...

World Cup It's really only January and spring time comes when the Chinese Lunar New Year comes around and a full year ahead is waiting. Depending on where you are, who you are, life can have very different meaning. We can get preoccupied with our work and life's problems while to others life's hanging in the balance and in tenterhook. Many Singaporean's chief concern right now is whether we get to see the World Cup soccer in South Africa in June and at what price. Our telcos out bid one another to give away several hundred millions to the EPL to lead FIFA to think that to pay a small sum of a hundred million for a month of soccer extravaganza is peanuts. Well, let them carry on with the gamesmanship to see who blink first. It'snot as if you don't have to pay. My take is that an amicable settlement will be reached. It could be FIFA's greed or out telco's way of telling us why we have to pay so much. In the event that we miss out improbable as it seem...

It gets cold when it is raining cats and dogs these days some of the time. In the very old days, the English countryside have people living in farms where houses have thatched roofs piled with straws but no wooden support underneath it and small animals like rats, cats and dogs would live there to keep warm and during torrential downpour, it can get slippery and you will find animals falling down from the roofs hence raining cats and dogs. It's raining cats and dogs on Tiger Woods of late, even woolly mammoths judging by the revelations. Poor Tiger. Tiger Tiger crashed his SUV and lo and behold all kinds of rumours abound. The price of fame. I do not mind coming back from the Land of Oz with a cool US$3 million in the pocket to get my SUV dented a bit though. Ah, the paparazzi spin mill profiting at the expense of others again. Here's a guy who could drive (with his golf clubs) and how many of you out there could not drive straight with a golf club in your hands but ...