30 Cents
What does 30 cents mean to you?
A couple of sweets maybe. Half an M&M. One 20 sen coin and another 10 sen coin, put creatively together.
I have to admit, these days 30 cents won't really get you anywhere.
Unless it's a slap off the subsidy the government had placed on our national petrol prices to help 'ease' our troubles.
An increase of 30 cents per litre makes a lot of fucking difference.
Today, a friend told me that it had cost him RM85 to fill his Proton Putra full to the brim.
Four and a bit years ago, it would've only cost him RM55.
Four years ago we were still students, and 55 bucks was a week's worth of Dewan Seleras and Teh Tariks.
Imagine if we had to fork out 85 bucks then. It's almost a week and a half worth of daily, digestible food.
I still remember how we used to hitch a ride with whoever had the most petrol. I knew a friend who filled RM1.50 worth of petrol into her car, just to get home from Sunway to Subang.
Try doing that today and I can guarantee that YOU'LL end up being the cause of the mile long traffic jam across the LDP.
We used to "Tong-Tong" (Share-Share..hahaha) petrol money into a pool which we used whenever someone was strapped for cash. It was fun. Someone gets the loot to fill their car with a bootful of petrol, whilst we...get a Driver for the day.
Because petrol was so cheap we went practically everywhere.
We actually went to see waterfalls, on a weekday no less, just for the fun of it.
We even went ghost hunting (during the day..lol) because we had 10 ringgit worth of petrol to waste and by god try as we did, we just could not finish it by day's end.
You may think i'm overreacting here, but 30 cents is a lot of money. A lot of kids today are being deprived of adventures they'll never end up having, simply because 10 ringgit worth of share-share money in 2006 won't even get them pass the first toll booth. Even if they did...
They'd run out of petrol just before they'd even caught a glimpse of the second toll.
A couple of sweets maybe. Half an M&M. One 20 sen coin and another 10 sen coin, put creatively together.
I have to admit, these days 30 cents won't really get you anywhere.
Unless it's a slap off the subsidy the government had placed on our national petrol prices to help 'ease' our troubles.
An increase of 30 cents per litre makes a lot of fucking difference.
Today, a friend told me that it had cost him RM85 to fill his Proton Putra full to the brim.
Four and a bit years ago, it would've only cost him RM55.
Four years ago we were still students, and 55 bucks was a week's worth of Dewan Seleras and Teh Tariks.
Imagine if we had to fork out 85 bucks then. It's almost a week and a half worth of daily, digestible food.
I still remember how we used to hitch a ride with whoever had the most petrol. I knew a friend who filled RM1.50 worth of petrol into her car, just to get home from Sunway to Subang.
Try doing that today and I can guarantee that YOU'LL end up being the cause of the mile long traffic jam across the LDP.
We used to "Tong-Tong" (Share-Share..hahaha) petrol money into a pool which we used whenever someone was strapped for cash. It was fun. Someone gets the loot to fill their car with a bootful of petrol, whilst we...get a Driver for the day.
Because petrol was so cheap we went practically everywhere.
We actually went to see waterfalls, on a weekday no less, just for the fun of it.
We even went ghost hunting (during the day..lol) because we had 10 ringgit worth of petrol to waste and by god try as we did, we just could not finish it by day's end.
You may think i'm overreacting here, but 30 cents is a lot of money. A lot of kids today are being deprived of adventures they'll never end up having, simply because 10 ringgit worth of share-share money in 2006 won't even get them pass the first toll booth. Even if they did...
They'd run out of petrol just before they'd even caught a glimpse of the second toll.
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Have you ever noticed that I am probably one of the few if not sole, who has never rambled about fuel prices since it became an issue (or at least, since I started paying for it)?
I thought so.
Call me when you're up for another huddle over wine or coffee.
:P