Ok ok,
In a day or so, we’ll all be done with 2010. If there’s anything memorable about it, it will be remembered as the year of inane price increases. Every single day, you woke up wondering what the hell was going to be next.
While people who live in other geographically challenged locations are contemplating on what storm or hurricane is going to hit next, I am wondering what price hike is going to hit next. If there was nothing in the papers, I usually spend ten minutes mouthing prayers to God.
Today I was browsing through the ST and I can’t help but wonder if ST was actually written and published in an alternate dimension where nothing bad ever happens to Singapore. The Singapore that is written about in the pages of the ST sure as hell don’t seem like the Singapore that I am living in. Their year in review basically contains glowing articles about the wonderful economy and how every Singaporean is lying on a bed filled with money.
Meanwhile in the real world, everyone and their grandmother is struggling to deal with the soaring inflation. Just about the only people who have something to smile about are the Jedi masters who are employing their cheap mind tricks on us.
The bread and butter issues remains unanswered as the crazy inflation resembles a 400Kg gay gorilla sitting in your living room making lewd gestures at you that no one dares to talk about. It’s there, but the Jedi circle is seemingly oblivious to it. I shudder to think what our low income families have to deal with everyday.
I pity those who actually voted in favour of the Jedi counsel. I guess you must be feeling pretty foolish by now. It’s a given of course, prices were all going to jump after the swearing in of the Jedi Council, but not even the smartest and most clairvoyant of us expected this. The dark side of the force seems sweeter for some reason. Whatever official figures they give us, double it and that’s the real figure you get for inflation. Can’t wait to see what 2011 brings to the forsaken red dot.
Some Highlights:
– Casinos are up and killing.
– Youth Olympics
– Slashings at Bukit Panjang
– We got Mas Selamat back (Selamat Datang)
– More ERP gantries
– COE pricing that cost more than the Hubble Space telescope
– MRT jingles
– Pinoy television serials
– Hawkers selling simplistic dishes for over 10 bucks
Cheers
ps: Is it my turn to move yet?