well i'm having drinks with some people from a particular company (which i'm not gonna name but starts with an 'M' and they make software .. go figure) .. and we're leaving and we all walk outside to get into our cars ... one walks into her Audi A4T, another into his alpha romeo, and another into her VW Beetle (yes, the new one).

and i'm sulking back to my beat up old wira with plastic bumpers and a crack headlamp hoping no one saw me and thinking to myself, "man i work for the wrong company"

as the malaysian work force we are used and abused by corporations, simply because they know they can. i look with scorn upon anyone who exclaims with glee "oh its so good to be in malaysia, cost of living is so low!". yeah sure, you can get your teh'o limau for RM1 at a mamak .. but i can't replace engine oil with teh'o limau or use 'roti kosong' as brake pads.

we are not fortunate, we are abused. i am abused for having to by a sub-par quality car at over 2-yrs worth of my salary, whereas my fellow college graduate can buy a USD15k car, a mere 1/4th of her salary. and since when is "living frugal" a requirement of a low cost of living? if thats the case i could move to London and live off saltine crackers and tap water and call London a city of "low cost of living"