rm96 one tank

everyone is sure to be talking about this now...petrol price hike!!
i got to watch it live on tv when grandpa watched the news at 5.30p.m....how lucky.
but actually before that, at about 2 plus, i already had an sms informing me that there will be a hike and it would be 50 cents per litre. so as an early precaution, i got mom to help me fill the tank at about 4p.m.

when she came home about 6p.m. the roads heading towards both the petrol stations were congested!! buses and cars fighting to fill their tanks. i think in kl it will be worse.

the newspaper will have a fuel day tomorrow (hehe...pun intended). rm0.30 is subsidised by the government now and we have to pay rm2.40 per litre. gosh...i dun want to make that many trips to the petrol station from now on. so how do i minimise my fuel usage??

- get a bicycle and cycle to work??
- have my lunch at the canteen in the work place, hence i do not need to make an extra detour for lunch
- plan my trip to kl and ipoh and only go when it is reallly necessary (no...isetan member sales do not count now)

hmmm....i can only think of these 3...prove that i dun really go out a lot (how sad).

i hope the pinch won't be that painful...but i know others who travel everyday to work in kl will feel it. gosh...half of their pay will go petrol stations already! man! the gov better start improving the road, the public transport, etc fast! all the stupid jams in the city are not helping to save fuel at all. public transport fare will have a new price as well, so how are the ppl going to cope??

oh, anyone heard anything about the electricity tariff?? bye bye air-cond if it really goes up. get a thinner and lighter blanket...no prob there.

hmmh...better think of happy thoughts to escape the dreadful and bleak future we are going to face.

p/s: at 10.30p.m. now, the congestion from the petrol stations has reached the junction to my house. they still have petrol to sell ah???