Oh great... things are getting more expensive again.

It is actually a vicious cycle, things go well, people start to spend and this spending starts to reduce excess capacity and therefore the price goes up. But as the prices go up, people start to ramp down on their spendings and this in turn affects the businesses and thus pushes things into another downturn.

There was an article that now inflation is around 3.7%... Really??? No joke??? Are you sure??? What can we buy for $10 now? I remember a long time ago during my very mentally troubled youth, $10 could still buy a lot of things... Now, if you give a kid $10... the kid will say,"Uncle... save your money lah...." So how much is the true inflation today? How much can we buy for the amount we still have? People are not getting richer and especially the sandwiched generation who earn enough that they are not considered poor and therefore have no safety net. These are the ones who are really suffering nowadays. You may say, "Waaaaaahhhh you earn $3k ah.... coooollll"... But like the little kid who asked you to save your money, the girl you are interested will also say don waste your time. It can't buy you a house or a car and these are 2 of the important "c"s that they want.

Even if you earn 10k, it is not really a big thing. For some of course it will be a big thing, but seriously the spending power of average joe is really getting smaller.. But of course my little energizer does not understand such terms. She is like the forever ongoing bull market... Everything is fine and dandy and great.... (sighsssssssss>)

So anyways, ERP is going up.... Just like COE is going up..... prices are going up...... might as well think seriously about opening up a bread shop because I am sure that to save money, people will have to start to love eating bread. Nothing wrong with bread, but have you seen the ridiculous prices of some of our sandwiches????? And also I had such a bad experience at BK last weekend. Ordered a large ice tea, the server tried to flog off a medium coke... and when I tasted it, it was so sweet an ant will have an immediate orgasm and die on the spot. Then the sausages patty was so over cooked that it looked like the shrivelled lungs of a smoker who does 40 sticks a day.... it did not taste much better though.

And to top off the whole experience, when I brought the drink back to the counter, no one even tried to placate me with another drink. Not that I am that desperate for a drink that can make an ant orgas and die on the spot though.

Anyway.... I am really getting tired of all this shit... You get shit service, you are treated like shit.... but don worry, I do not think that I am shit... hehehehehe