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

3's a turkey and four's a bagger in bowling and so the festive season came and went so quickly. Christmas, the New Year, the Lunar New Year so that's a turkey.  Everything is coming in earlier these days. I told you about the Lunar New Year cookies being available by Christmas. At the rate we are going, every festival would be jumbled one day. Maybe we will have a crossover or hybrid celebration. Why are we rushing to get ahead of time? Getting ahead can get you behind since the earth is rotating. What did I do for Christmas? W e had family dinner with turkey over the weekend before Christmas of course.  Ham. This can be used as a weapon. Tomatoes, zucchini and lettuce. Potato. Pork ribs. I wonder if they chopped a pig, took out its ribs, do they leave the poor sow to die. If not, why do they do that to sharks? When I was young, I remembered that we only have meat like chicken, duck and so on during festive occasions. So turkey is the new festive ...

It is often said that you are what you eat? Do you agree? What does it really mean and how did it get started? The notion went that basically to stay healthy you have to eat good food. Brillat-Savarin and Ludwig Andreas Feuebach wrote that "tell me what you eat and I tell you what you are" and "man is what he eats" respectively. The food that one eats has a bearing on your health and state of mind. Some quarters believed that as much as 90% of diseases known to man are caused by cheap foodstuffs. So we have to look at what we eat more carefully. Never get cheap crabs but by itself crabs can kill you if taken in extreme due to cholesterol. Perhaps more expensive prawns are better and still cheaper than the cheapest crabs? I believe abalones were once cheap but the Chinese ate them till the price shot up and never came back. Expensive does not really mean more nutrition always. Anyway, most of the time we are over eating. You can w...