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

Back in the good old days, we have four other national teams. Besides the National Team (The Lions), we also have a B team (The Cubs). Then we also competed in the Sultan's Gold Cup fielding a team called Singapore Malays. We have the Singapore Indians playing in the Bardhan Cup and the other being the Singapore Chinese team also competing aga inst Malaysian state teams in the same format and also the Ho Ho Cup triangular among Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. In 1976, Englishman Trevor Hartley became responsible for the Singapore team at age 28. I can't remember which year Singapore beat Malacca 6-2 and Lee Bee Seng was sent off for punching an opponent who must have trampled on him. Here is Bee Seng with Brian Rozario. In the same match Quah Kim Song was sent off too for fighting. And I said wow! Malaysia Cup is like that? I like! (Pix - Lee Bee Seng with Brian Rozario). And can you believe this? Before all these we have Mike Walker who played Kim Song a...

I was more of a badminton player than a squash player and never a tennis player. I could play a mean game of badminton heavily influenced during the time of legends like Rudy Hartono and Svend Pri. Squash was like unheard of until a friend who plays it quite frequently at Poly introduced it. I found that I love the game. It is pulsating and physically intimidating to say the least. I particularly love hitting on the side wall with gusto and feeling and seeing the ball ricochets away like a pinball can be quite fun. This shot is called a "Boast".  The only thing I dislike is that in a non air-conditioned squash court, the heat is too intense within the court. I found myself asking why it is called Squash and not Squeezed as you get squeezed within the confines of the walls. Squeezed oranges become orange squash and at the end of an hour or two after playing several sets with different opponents, you do really feel like a squeezed orange but it was good even if you look ...