Reality Bites

The increase of sugar price by 20 cents is already an old news. The impending increase of fuel - by May - has been openly discussed. Now we have the powers that be casually saying - don't expect sugar price to remain the same till end of the year. Since sugar increase also affects lower income families - it is safe to assume that soon - it will be announced that we have to pay me for electricity. Since a hike in the tariff will likely affect middle and high income families.

Wait - didn't we just paid like 20% more last year ? You bet your a** , we did! But then when you have a business model in which you erect the infrastructure, and then requested to sell that to an independent (crony?) company and forced to buy back power generated by that independent power provider - (premium price?) - what can you expect ? It does not matter that we already have excess capacity - more electricity that we can use - generate more IPP, so that we can help them 'do business'. If TNB cannot pay, never mind meh...just raise the tariff, again and again and again....

Aikkk....already in 3rd paragraph - but still no mention of reality - you ask. Well, this is our reality of life....When the economic uncertainty is still gripping most of us, we are served with more and more news of price increase. Our life is made to be gloomier by the day. Make you wonder whether the powers that be are living in the real world...probably their world are so cushioned - they do not feel the pain of falling on their b***! Most of them does not pay toll, so toll hike is not a burden to the people. They travel with police escort - so what congestion are you referring to ? Our ride are always smooth! Some are blue blood or comes from a silver spoon family. Will they emphatize and know how it feels to count every cents received to make sure your kids have decent meals ????

The reality is that when I started work, fresh graduate earned around RM2.2K. After 15 years, fresh graduate earns around 2.6K. A mere RM400 in 15 years. A terrace house in Penang used to cost RM200K 15 years ago- but now it is RM500K. Do the math.....