LETTER TO GRANDSON JUN: I FOUND MYSELF HIKING

Raised on a farm near Changi (visited by Albert Einstein in the 1920s), Anthony Teo attended Singapore's 19th century St Anthony's Boys School and St Joseph's Institution. Having completed a course at the 330-year-old Harvard at new Cambridge in Massachusetts, USA, Anthony then went in search of America, driving across country from New York to San Francisco, through the mile-high Jackalopean landscape of Wyoming. His co-driver was his friend Leo Soong in his classic 1,000-mile-a-day steed of the 1960s — BMW 2002 ti. Leo, who unbeknownst to Anthony at the time, was Madame Chiang Kaishek's favourite nephew.Years later, Anthony was at old Cambridgeshire's 800-year-old University of Cambridge, UK as a Visiting Fellow to complete his hunt for the origins of the two univer-cities (Harvard-Cambridge and Cambridge-Cambridge Market Town).Contents: Hiking, Fast and in FearDriving, Faster and FartherWhy Faster & Higher?Enthusiasm, Faster & ForeverWarp Speed, Fastest & to the FutureSweet ConclusionReadership: Young pre-teens and their parents and grandparents.Letter to AdulTeen;Curiosity;Colour of Enthusiasm;Secrets of Entheos;Intrepid Jackalope;Holistic Akela Mums;Neitzsche;Pathology of Distance;Warpseed;Defeat Transfear;Creative Fear;Total Defence;Self Discovery;Inner Strength;Appaloosa Transformer-Trucks;Armature — 50,000-Mile Inter-State Supply Chain: President Ike'52 to Portland's NIKE, Seattle's Amazon and Arkansas' Walmart;Route 80: Radiant Raven's Run via Rock-Springs, WY;3,000-Mile Putt Across Green USA;Tao of Experiential Learning-Driving;Leo: Driver and Renaissance Man;If Life's a Highway, Leo is I-80 — Long and Wonderful Life;Delicious Discovery — I Found Myself, Hiking'Early youth and AdulTeens learn best through nurturing holistic core qualities keyed up by infectious enthusiasm and the finesse of will as shown by the new generation of young teenage medalists at the Olympics'20 and the US Open'21.' - Tan Sri Sharifah HapsahPresident, National Council of Women's OrganisationsCo-Founder, Permata — UNDP Awardee for Nurturing the Young in Malaysia
'Grandson Jun ('tua soon' 大孙) is so fortunate to have a grandpa like YY ('yeh-Yeh' 爷爷; Hanyu Pinyin: yeye), who is enthusiastic in passing on the wisdom to the next generation.' - NUS Professor Dr MY Chew PhD (Tsinghua)Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

'YY's enthusiasm is indeed contagious as evidenced by him thrice winning the prestigious NTU Team Leadership Award. With propriety as a sweet Swede, I just enquired of him, my host at dinner, whether it's true NTU was looking for a provost. I ended up staying eleven years as NTU Provost and thence 3rd President.' - Emeritus NTU Professor Bertil AnderssonTrustee, Nobel Foundation

'Life's journey, like driving 3,000 miles across America, is all about the drive, climb and self-learning. We set the difficult ones so that we can truly learn and predominate.' - Edmund TL YongTiong Bahru-born Founder CEO X-Celerator with two Unicorns like billion-dollar patent-driven PatSnap and hobby mountaineer with Edmund Hillary as childhood hero

Key Features: Five segments of about 5,000 words accompanied by post-modern B&W illustrations with Javanese-US-NAFA detailing Unique tales woven together of jungle hiking in Singapore and Malaya to a hike-drive 3,000 miles across continental America, and an appearance of the mythical Jackalope (half-Jackrabbit & half-antelope). The narrative complements serendipitous life-lessons inspired by the Aristotelian proposition of phrónēsis. Experience and practical judgement are part of the pursuit of wisdom and understanding oneself. Hence the sub-theme 'I Found Myself Hiking'