If you happen to chance on this post, good for you and good for me.
Good for you, because the once noisy and opinionated MissyIvy is back again.
Good for me, because this means I still have a loyal and faithful reader who still comes back here even when there's no new updates.
Actually, my absence is not entirely out of indolence. What is there to
update when there's almost NO
updates around, am I right? Yet my ego can not risk losing my viewership and I do not wish to disappoint you faithful and loyal readers out there, and thus here I am, telling you stories again.
During my absence I have pondered much about life - its meaning, its purpose, and what I'm supposed to do with it. Of course, THAT was just a big fat
LIE. Please - would I even have the time to think about
LIFE when I did not even have the luxury to sleep adequately? Haha, gotcha.
So after near-to three weeks of slavery (yes, I bowed to slavery in the name of MONEY) I have finally succumbed to ill health and thus explains my long absence.
THAT, of course, was a LIE as well.
Alright, so I was NOT diagnosed with some terminal disease (CHOI!), but for almost half a week I decided to go on a strike, and stayed home. YES, stayed HOME. Now this, is NOT a lie. Because home provided much temptation my ten fingers could not finish counting, blogging has hence moved down the hierarchy of importance, and was thus, ignored.
So my little self-declared holiday was full of little discoveries that illustrated how beautiful a life of simplicity can be.
What is the probability of digging out a
WORM from the very bowl you've been eating from?
To have woken up from a long afternoon nap and see a reindeer right in front of you...
and sometimes try to figure out our genetic similarities which are apparently, unexpressed...
still, genetic similarities can be observed in certain individuals when they have the same expression...
and this is my evidence of my theory, that one will shake a few years off one's age after spending some time with children, preferably those who share
some genetic make up...
and my brother's first attempt in photography revealed the million-dollar face... in
slumberland
Actually I would pretty much love to lament, to complain, to pour my woes, in response to the pig-brain decision of the government to raise petrol prices by the biggest margin ever in history - RM0.80 more per litre. Yet, now that it's already close to a week after its implementation date, I suppose everybody got quite used to the RM2.70 per litre petrol, and there isn't as much hype about the matter as there was when it was first implememented.
So when they say prices always shoot after an election, they are always right. Singapore raised GST by 2 percent following their previous election, and it appears as the Malaysian goverment follows suit. First, it was flour. And then, a global rice price hike. Then, the loud decision by the goverment to prohibit foreign registered vehicles from filling up petrol within 50km from our national borders. And when the decision created an uproar of protests from our neighbours and our people alike, they (goverment) slammed all of us with just the right piece of news - subsidies to be withdrawn and fuel prices to hike by 80 cents.
Every decision involves spending more by the people. Yet what happens to our wages? Great, nominal wage remains constant. Which means, our REAL wage decreases. At an alarming rate that corresponds to the avalanche of alarming price hikes.
And just when people are recuperating from the RM2.70 per litre petrol shock, the goverment has just another surprise for us - electricity billing rates to rise. An average household may just have to pay about RM11 more under the new rates. Let me see, that means I will see a figure that looks something like a 110 in my electricity bills in future.
That's not just it. The goverment has set petrol prices to follow world prices with effect from August, which, according to speculation, amounts to a freaking RM4 per litre!
But I don't understand. What the government is doing now clearly brings NO GOOD out of its people. Food inflation aside, I shall talk about transportation.
Do we have a nation-wide transport network that is extensive?
No.Do we have a convenient public transport system?
No.Do we even have a GOOD public transport system IN THE BIG CITIES?
NO!What do we have?
Highways and roads and CARS.
We do NOT have an extensive public transport system, let alone a satisfying one to be just a nice substitute to driving. And this is precisely why in Malaysia, everybody NEEDS a car. Then am I not right to say, that instead of helping its people, which is the main objective of a GOOD governance, the goverment is smacking every one of us through its various policy changes?
Perhaps then, when oil prices float freely with the world market, we will find it more worth it if we just stay home and NOT go anywhere. Perhaps then bicycles or bus 11 becomes the prefered mode of transport, since public transport will definitely cost more by then.
But whichever the case is, I will be out of this country by then. Yet if such "surprises" continue to surface, I'm sure the goverment will see throngs of Malaysians leaving the country for good.
I used to be VERY pround of my country, yet what have YOU done to a country I once called my pride?
