back from bangkok
just got back from bangkok... read darrr's post and would like to clarify that it is not that I do not blog often, but rather, I'm just not very good at it. Haven't quite gotten the flow of the style etc, and somehow sharing what I think has not always been a strong suit of mine.
And then of course, there are these fat obese fingers of mine, rather unwieldly and not the best to blog with. Have been putting off the posts so that i can change the look of my blog first. too similar for comfort with zuobolan's, a resemblance i assure you was purely coincidental and also mildly troubling in that sense.
Bangkok was great (as usual) but also tiring (also as usual), got myself a new list of restaurants to visit, 3 pairs of pants, a lotus plant and shoes this time round. I might feel the inclination to write about some of the eating places in Bangkok soon but thats for another time. Will have to get around the vow of secrecy I took with theguineapig first, so for now one of those places will have to remain known as the "puki puki cafe and bar" (heres one for the annals of catchy fake place names). Had to watch the spelling of annals, its ones of those words which one does not misspell lightly. Anyway, it is home to the most divine warm chocolate cake ever created. I could show you the place, but then I would have to kill you, either that, or as the potential scandal might go, if there's not already one in place, theguineapig might want to see you in his pen/sty.
Have also a new idea for a restaurant format somewhere so deserted u need a map to find. A true Shangrila in Singapore. But that will probably have to wait till when i have money to burn, an event that is not likely in the near future with the ever increasing movie and fuel prices. On that topic, I believe that government policy is sorely misdirected. You need couples to have more babies and without cheap movies, where will people go to pretend that they are interested in each other as individuals? (as a prelude to whatever it is a prelude to... take the hint policy man). They won't go to NTUc (borrowed from tangoh) for sure, though I hear that there is some even more inexpensive rutting going on thereabouts. Being far from civilisation has its advantageous i suppose.
So we're stuck in a horrible position, higher prices = more revenue for government and a nice sturdy surplus BUT less avenues for the erm "youthful exertions" of an uncreative people and less babies for the Singapore farm. Conflicting policy direction?? I think not and therein lies the rub. Quite simply this is where the injustice lies. My proposition is that raising movie prices is a hidden tax on our primordial instincts. The raising of such prices, and their associated demand inelasticity is a testament of the fact that we cannot help such behavior and as such are putty in the hands of the pricemongers who must really feel like warren buffet when increases here and there send us scampering in either direction.
Like it or not, Humans love to congregate and engage in congress (check the dictionary for the real meaning). And movies are the only means of doing so. I am convinced that this must really be the case. Since somehow, we as a people cannot help but succumb to such hikes without a struggle. Surely we cannot be that rich a people as to stomach such blows with impunity and somehow we have. Other than admitting than we don't have a spine of course, which is of course unacceptable. So there you have it. Caught in such a scenario, we are being punished for behavior that we cannot help, much like punishing the caucasian for being white, the chinese for making money and the indians for setting up mamak stalls among other injustices. Ok, maybe that was stretching it a bit far, everyone knows that it is impossible for a white to be punished for being white, except for Vanilla Ice that is, though Micheal Jackson might not agree, depending on which colour he is feeling.
And then of course, there are these fat obese fingers of mine, rather unwieldly and not the best to blog with. Have been putting off the posts so that i can change the look of my blog first. too similar for comfort with zuobolan's, a resemblance i assure you was purely coincidental and also mildly troubling in that sense.
Bangkok was great (as usual) but also tiring (also as usual), got myself a new list of restaurants to visit, 3 pairs of pants, a lotus plant and shoes this time round. I might feel the inclination to write about some of the eating places in Bangkok soon but thats for another time. Will have to get around the vow of secrecy I took with theguineapig first, so for now one of those places will have to remain known as the "puki puki cafe and bar" (heres one for the annals of catchy fake place names). Had to watch the spelling of annals, its ones of those words which one does not misspell lightly. Anyway, it is home to the most divine warm chocolate cake ever created. I could show you the place, but then I would have to kill you, either that, or as the potential scandal might go, if there's not already one in place, theguineapig might want to see you in his pen/sty.
Have also a new idea for a restaurant format somewhere so deserted u need a map to find. A true Shangrila in Singapore. But that will probably have to wait till when i have money to burn, an event that is not likely in the near future with the ever increasing movie and fuel prices. On that topic, I believe that government policy is sorely misdirected. You need couples to have more babies and without cheap movies, where will people go to pretend that they are interested in each other as individuals? (as a prelude to whatever it is a prelude to... take the hint policy man). They won't go to NTUc (borrowed from tangoh) for sure, though I hear that there is some even more inexpensive rutting going on thereabouts. Being far from civilisation has its advantageous i suppose.
So we're stuck in a horrible position, higher prices = more revenue for government and a nice sturdy surplus BUT less avenues for the erm "youthful exertions" of an uncreative people and less babies for the Singapore farm. Conflicting policy direction?? I think not and therein lies the rub. Quite simply this is where the injustice lies. My proposition is that raising movie prices is a hidden tax on our primordial instincts. The raising of such prices, and their associated demand inelasticity is a testament of the fact that we cannot help such behavior and as such are putty in the hands of the pricemongers who must really feel like warren buffet when increases here and there send us scampering in either direction.
Like it or not, Humans love to congregate and engage in congress (check the dictionary for the real meaning). And movies are the only means of doing so. I am convinced that this must really be the case. Since somehow, we as a people cannot help but succumb to such hikes without a struggle. Surely we cannot be that rich a people as to stomach such blows with impunity and somehow we have. Other than admitting than we don't have a spine of course, which is of course unacceptable. So there you have it. Caught in such a scenario, we are being punished for behavior that we cannot help, much like punishing the caucasian for being white, the chinese for making money and the indians for setting up mamak stalls among other injustices. Ok, maybe that was stretching it a bit far, everyone knows that it is impossible for a white to be punished for being white, except for Vanilla Ice that is, though Micheal Jackson might not agree, depending on which colour he is feeling.
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