Increase! Increase! Increase!

When we went to do our groceries shopping last week, we were so surprised with the hike in the cost of this particular kind of food. The price went up to almost 30% from BND2.7 to BND3.5. What the...?!x?!! But this only reflects on one kind of food, imagine if there are ten or more inside your shopping cart ..... How are we going to cope with our groceries bills? Are we going to substitute for cheaper one but the quality is..... or do we still stick to our usual consumption albeit the price?

Well, as quoted from paper prepared by FAO, IFAD and WFP there are six reasons for the increase in food prices worldwide....

1. World cereal production decrease due to bad weather in major producing countries
2. Stock levels are very low
3. Petroleum prices and food prices are highly correlated
4. Increased demand from the biofuels sector
5. Economic growth in some large developing countries is leading to changes in diet and increased demand for food crops
6. Trade policies put in place by some countries has contributed to higher prices in certain cases

What will happen to our Millennium Development Goal (MDG)? Something to for us orang kebanyakan to talan and orang basar to ponder about....

Reminiscence of our Youth

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Spy Babu: Jar.. cari kan cicah lagu Reo Speedwagon
Niece TM1: ok.. apa cah oreo..?

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Spy Babu: bah ada sudah?
Ibu IT: jangan tah kau ingau tu.... ko buatkan homework si vevy.. kami carikan ko lagu...

Scene 3

Spy Babu: Vevy.. lakas tah google dulu camana kan buat report on weather forecast ani
Niece TM2: ok...

Google punya google then si Vevy teliat tia example weather forecast report ani arah textbook nya.... belot...

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Niece TM2: Pachi Gundul or Butak (can't remember exactly) datang
Hero Tambi aka Baboon aka Pachi Gundul: Chik... masakkan maggi Chik... (countless times aka bibiran)
Spy Babu: eh.. malas ku eh... buat tia sendiri...

Tapi Spy Babu ani baik ati kan... last-last masakkan nya jua...

ps/ actually yang iski ati banar kan makan maggi asam ani ..... Mr Spy Babu.... rupa nya....

Results:

1. Niece TM1 managed to download 4 songs and this makes Spy Babu and Ibu IT really-really happy (esp Ibu IT she sings quite loud actually... hehe.. jgn mare Bu) : Listen to the Falling Rain(Jose Feliciano); Knife (Rockwell); Rosanna (Toto); and Suzanna (Art Company)

2. Spy Babu completed Niece TM2's homework (kudos to Spy Babu... hehehe... prasan lah tu)

Intelligence + Character = that is the true education
Dr Martin Luther King