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

When we were young during our schooling days, we wanted to work. Be like the adults. Those were our formative years. Even those who were leaders at the time, knew not what was to come and it was those days of youth or when you were younger that somehow brought back the fondest memories in your life. Perhaps it was an age where innocence and the real world met. An age where adolescence - a stage where physical and psychological development were in transition, where puberty led to liberty or so you thought.  Having more hair or longer hair like the hippies did would not necessary lead to total freedom because the teachers of our time were markedly different. They have character and personality just like our soccer players of old. So too the students. I still think that the khaki shorts of our lower secondary is really cool and unique. That was the reason why we came back for a big reunion on 1 February 2013 for  the Victorian Gold 2013. The last time we have done so w...

The Good Old Days You will always go back to the old days hence the words "the good old days". It does not mean the present is bad, just the the old days were always better maybe simply because life was more simple and values, priorities, demands and lifestyle were different. That is why people collect antiques, remake old movies and redo old songs as retro or simply just listen to old songs in its original version. When you are young you look forward to be older but when you got old you wish to be younger. Ah, irony of life. The good old days will never return but you can go back to the good old days. How? By visiting places, attending events and meeting people of that era. I have been doing exactly that for some time now visiting places of the past,  attending some events and meeting people. Not just meeting people but also connecting them. Inevitably, some of the most memorable times had to be in school. I have written previous articles on that which you can find ...