Blog updates

Hey folks who are still following me here ... A few updates to the blog:

1. It is now back on Blogger.
2. It is now known as My Consumer Nation ("my" for Malaysia or myself ... depends on how you look at it.)

Everything else is pretty much the same. I had left a last post in the Wordpress version of this blog to direct whoever's still accessing it over there. Do update your bookmarks, aight!

Opportunistic food vending

How would you feel, when your favorite hawker food for all-time, decides to up its price - just for the hols?

Not by 10 sen or twenty, mind you .... that being the very common rate of increase in virtually all food these days ... but a whole 50 sen! Yes: half a Ringgit ...

That's what happened recently, when I had the best Char Koay Teow this part of Ipoh: from RM3.00 (which is already a 30-sen increase from pre-Hari Raya prices) in October ... to RM3.50, for a plate of with egg and cockles (no shrimp.) From what I see on the rest of the stalls' price lists - price hikes are across the board for every dish in the shop. The only thing that did not get a price rise are the drinks.

Sorry to say - this will be the last time I'm gonna step foot into this shop until the prices revert back to sanity (if ever) come 2011 ...