Melody of the day: Anyone know how to fix the encoding problem? After upgraded to the latest version of wrodpress, all the Chinese characters showed up as ????? again. I have removed ‘define(’DBCHARSET’, ‘utf8′);and define(’DBCOLLATE’, ”);’ from wp-config.php to no avail. Please help!
As for the topic that is on everybody’s mind now, petrol hike. YES it’s pretty much the same over here, albeit not up 40% at one go, but gradually. Like 6 cents in 2 days for the latest increase. If I remembered correctly, it was about $1.30 per litre for regular unleaded around this time last year. Someone raised the possibility that it might go up to $2 per litre back then, but most people just brushed it off. Now, the price has peaked at $2.12 per litre and the thought of $3 per litre is becoming so horrifyingly real. A lot of secondhand car dealerships have already taken the hit and closed down in the past few months.
Don’t even get me started on food prices. A research done by NZ Herald in April showed that food prices have upped 28% in the last year and is continuing to soar. Although NZ is a agriculture-based country, the prices of dairy products have surprisingly shot through the sky, with cheese up 45.5 per cent, milk up 21.1 per cent, bread up 13.1 per cent and butter up by a gob smacking 86 per cent, all in one year! By the by, all these prices seem to be on their goal-setting road of soaring to new heights. There you have it, my rant of reality. Now let me go curl up in my blanket in my cold unheated room, as the cost of power has gone up as well. ARG!
Byebye cheese, I will miss you! (photo taken in Nov 2007)
Tags: hike, newsworthy, nz life
June 17th, 2008 at 3:07 am
The hike is killing … everybody is affected!
CC: We all are trapped in it.
June 17th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Petrol price increase = food price increase = daily usage increase… 1 think seems like taking forever to increase; our salary…. =(
CC: Don’t even get me started on that!
June 17th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
omg, seems like living expenses is rising drastically in every country, not only the petrol!
CC: Yup!
June 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
sigh..everything’s going up up up! but salary remains static =(
CC: What to do?!
June 17th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
hi, thanks for visiting my blog, it’s nice to meet you through the internet from NZ. can we exchange link so that we can drop by more often to each other
CC: Of course! Have added you under my hearty blogs.
June 17th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Yes, all over the world, cost of living going up, up and up. If only our salary goes up too, then we won’t complain so much!
CC: In a perfect world, our salary goes up too!!!
June 18th, 2008 at 1:40 am
CC,
That’s quite bad in NZ. In Aust, I think the petrol is about $1.50/litre when I left in April. Gosh, $2+, that’s expensive!
I’m sorry I’m not really good in html stuff. Will try to Google it. I’ll tell you if I can find something…
CC: I checked, it’s gone up to $1.60, still cheaper!
June 18th, 2008 at 6:29 am
maybe i will invent an engine that only uses water as the fuel… sound nice???
CC: Oh please do! Ha.
June 18th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I also just posted something on petrol… hehe!
Great minds think alike - you and me.
CC: Most certainly!
June 19th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
good luck… wait until next month electricity also naik…. cham……-_-”
CC: Electricity here already naik. Ai…