Up up and away

This probably qualifies as an inane rant that is being echoed in thousands? millions? of blogs across South-East Asia as prices of fuel and the associated costs of living sky-rocket through the roof. Even though the impact seems to be quite small to me over here in terms of absolute dollars and cents, the percentage is nonetheless staggering. Cost of a bus ride has gone up 25%, taxi fares 10-20% depending on distance, food with some going up as much as 25-30%, even my room rental has been hit with an increase. Sigh.

A promotion and a raise would be very welcomed indeed now. Anyone? :)