Cheap Thrill

I haven't been writing anything here since the first time I made this but I guess I am just a lazy-arse bloke. But lately I became and angry-lazy-arse bloke.

Recently I took my beloved 2nd car (i seldom drive her) for a spin and i realized that taking a spin is costing me 41% higher. Well that's just bad ain't it? It's like having sex without the ejaculation. I felt happy all the way from the 1st to the last gear... I could almost hear her scream for more - till we arrived to the gas station. Yes - the pump billed me RM180! At that moment - I knew, there's something wrong with this country. Aren't we an oil exporter? Don't we import cheaper petrol? How can we be paying a price same of those high grade petrol? Well the questions can go on and on.. it'll never end.

It didn't bother me as much when i filled my daily driven ride - an extra RM30 wasn't that bad, as so i thought... come to think of it an extra RM30 a week gets me RM120 a month and that means it could pay off my office parking ticket for a month! And that's A LOT!

After 2 weeks or so, those cheap lunch in LG1 doesn't seem to be cheap at all... everything is extra 15cents to 50cents worth. *Sigh... So does anything else, everything from electricity bills to toilet papers. It's like what they said - we are experiencing the domino effect - as one falls, it will walls onto another that collapse onto another.... That reminds me, a friend's Mom recently said on TV that the inflation rate in Malaysia is 4.2%... she thinks we all dumb ka? Maybe 4.2% for her and the other goons sitting up there.

They said that our petrol is way much cheaper than our Asian counter parts. Hell, i don't see them produce any oil, do you? They should compare us with those other countries that is on par with us, countries that do produce oil. Even Nigeria selling petrol at 0.13cent per liter (if not mistaken).

Even if they compare us to our neighbor below, i really do think our petrol is much more expensive than theirs. Our neighbor got good public transport and their spending power is way much higher than us. Even their income per capita is exceeding us. Again I ask, do they think we are stupid?

I know this is old news... but it brings me to a point. All this happens due to one reason - the government. Mismanagement of money and corruption in that organization made us lose billions of RM - and when it recedes, they start to take away our subsidies. Thus made my happy weekend rides into a wallet-burning fiasco.

As long as anybody can take over, and let me have a cheap thrill on an empty road (while trying to avoid the authorities)... I'll vote for that party.