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

Time And Place How quickly time flies. Ten years have gone by. It depends who and where you are and how you have been affected. Just as in life, there have been great pains and anguish but life is like golf, you play as it lies. Life as in golf, you just wanted a decent game, enjoy the company of friends and appreciate nature. You don't want to fight with your clubs or with anyone. In short, you want to get on with life which has its own difficulties, problems, twists and turns. I remember by capturing time and place.  September 9, 2001, I was on the way to Tokyo on a business trip for a meeting. The weather was warm at about 31 degrees Celsius but in the land of the Rising Yen er I mean Rising Sun, sunrise is around a quarter past five in the mornings and sunset at ten to six in the evenings proving the wise-saying of early to bed, early to rise at least true in theory but not in practice. There was so much to do in such a short time. When the meeting was over, we adjo...

There is always something to learn whoever you are, wherever you are and whatever situation you are in. Once, we were walking on the street and had to stop at a traffic junction awaiting the pedestrian man to turn green. At this point, a little boy ran towards us and attempted to cross the street. We stopped him. Very soon, his parents came by to take charge and instead of thanking us, made a remark that their child is a smart boy and know how to cross the street. This is beyond reason. Do you agree with me that when walking on the streets, parents should be holding their children's hands until they are of a certain age? You can teach very young children to be aware of open windows without grills but when they are young even if very clever they are still children. When they are happily playing they can forget. Even adults get into freak accidents. There are children around the world who while jumping on their bed which were unfortunately placed near the window, cascaded out of...

18 April, years ago I was enlisted and trained to kill if necessary. Many of my friends too when we were only about 18. National Service changed many of us. It is like taking medicine, you don't like it but is is good for you. Thank Dr. Goh Keng Swee for starting an Army by reading a book to where we are today. Some people still question why we need the SAF and these people just don't get it. Get hold of this book "Defending The Lion City" by Tim Huxley which I have read many years back and you will appreciate more. Sometimes you will hear that it is necessary for war in order to have peace. War can also easily start when the leadership of a country is in trouble and in order to deflect attention to their corruption, inefficiencies and failures, they create a war. Or simply when someone is bigger than you, they just wish to walk all over you. I like our country's government and military approach and doctrine - to make friends all over, joint-exercises and all, to...