Whenever you come across that 50c price hike of your neighbourhood wan ton mee, you lament and 'kpkb' for a whole long day to every person you meet, from your spouse, your colleagues, that random PHV driver and even your cat!
You still fondly remember the time when fishball noodles cost just $2... and that wasn't the school canteen fare. But the truth is, so has the price of everything risen. My relatives recently sold their 40 year old 5-room point block HDB for a cool $600K profit. But guess what? Do you hear them or people like them saying, 'OMG it rose too much!!'
We increasingly come across millennials exclaiming how high home prices are, and how difficult it is to get that BTO from the seemingly ever over-subscribed situation from launch to launch. For some of us, it is but 'noise' until it hits us that these people crying out loud could well be our nieces, nephews, and even our own children. But let's not forget salaries and incomes rose too over the decades. These are the days of PWM and cleaning supervisors expecting to hit $3.2K monthly salary very soon.
So no matter how in denial one can choose to be, the fact remains that everything is only going to go UP. And that there's no other way for this tiny island country.
Enjoy that $3.50 wan ton mee while it lasts my friend.
