Electricity 22% Increase... daylight robbery!!!

[barmby]

Thankfully! We still have food in our supermarkets! We still have hot water bath! Being safe, dry and protected! No complains. Cheers..

[Jervis]

As expected. 1 week after PUB increase 22%, Singtel announced price hike for their landline services (which will affect every Singaporean) citing "INCREASE IN OPERATING COSTS"

What's next?

[Shadow]

next would be water price

[windcharm]

Now the chain of effects is coming...

[aquaSynthesis]

My colleague shared this with me:
He replaced the switch for his storage heater to one with a timer.
That way, he won't forget to switch it off after he's done, and he won't take too long in the shower.

Robert: I think you may not be very far off, with the new generation of solar energy receptors being produced on a nano scale, it is a matter of time before the entire outer layer of building is covered with this stuff.

yeah...i did the same to my storage heater too sir. change to the timer type...max can go is 20mins, so everytime shower must turn the timer knob.



Ahhh....have you all forgotten about the unnecessary underground tunnel where the National has to make way for it? So fast forgotten ha?

[TTS]

next would be water price

And Gas... follow by S&C charge
All these increases will surface within the next 6 months... and the whole vicious cycle will then repeat again!!

In another word... it's a never ending cycle of INCREASE... until probably 6 months before 2011's "thankgiving"

[silvertemplar]

Hopefully, this financial crisis will slow things down a bit... almost cannot breathe...

[Orion]

About the chiller thingy, last time when I was still on marine then I off the chiller due to high energy cost( also some malfunction) , those hard corals literally died off( actually already very poor shape), what was left then was a pile of white skeletons.

But I recycled these calcium structures and went on to Tanganyikan fishes keeping as they look marine to me.

Looking back those day, really crazy no thanks to Nemo.

If that happened now , I will probably give up aquarium hobby.

err..... My point is, we will definitely feel the discomfort is we were to cut something in our daily life. I will now try to keep things simple and low cost by not trying newer entry fishes/shrimps or plants or follow latest hype.

[torque6]

so not only are we going to be out of job, decrease pay, we are facing increasing cost of living.

Nicely done ! Fortunately ive only a 1FT. But still my utilities bills average around 70-80 per month, quite high

[Orion]

and they are telling us to upgrade and work in casino?

Can we also upgrade our age to make it more hype as we gets older, wiser?

[barmby]

Keep guppies lor. Just like the good old days.

[silvertemplar]

Guppies are good, cheap (some breeds) and hardy...

[Zenislev]

Everything about sg is increase increase and increase. Another old pharse...only pay never increase. Ok, never increase somemore nevermind, some even pay cut...or give you minimum yearly increment....die la like that...

[barmby]

Guppies are good, cheap (some breeds) and hardy...

Try water change - they will die. hahah.. strange huh..

[exotic_idiot]

Everything about sg is increase increase and increase. Another old pharse...only pay never increase. Ok, never increase somemore nevermind, some even pay cut...or give you minimum yearly increment....die la like that...

No choice, singaporean die die have to follow sg rules... Like every man have to go national service spend 2-2.5 years of army rules.. Hahaaa
Think it as a positive minds, life's gets easier and happier...

Try water change - they will die. hahah.. strange huh..

Sure a not??? Change water will die? Sudden chorine poison?

[Orion]

Change water die???

that place fengshui not good? Maybe good old days they forgot to clear a thingy bones or two.

[exotic_idiot]

Better keep low tech tanks to decrease all the water and electric bills...
I find that by switching air-con and washing clothes add up more on the bills...

[BFG]

I would say a true aquatic hobbyist would not budge with the increase of tariff. They may re-do their setup to be as efficient as ever before. The most they'll do is to lessen the number of tanks but their interest will not be put off by the current situation.

[luenny]

I think it's all very simple. When you have more money and amount of work stays the same, usually your quality of life increases, you can do more things. The reverse is usually is true too. So put off or not it's still less we can do compare to before.

[BFG]

I think it's all very simple. When you have more money and amount of work stays the same, usually your quality of life increases, you can do more things. The reverse is usually is true too. So put off or not it's still less we can do compare to before.

.....such is the way the wheel spin.....