We're Still The Cheapest In South East Asia, What!

I'm not really a TV person but I do have certain shows that I simply cannot miss such as CSI, CSI: New York, Numbers, Las Vegas, The Beast and the occasional movie or sporting event. To enjoy all these shows I subscribe to our local and only satellite TV station called Astro.

Well, watching shows on Astro is going to get a lot more expensive from next month onwards. Wifey was surfing a little while ago and came across this article about Astro charging its subscribers another RM12.00 a month for the sports channels. This has come as a real surprise for me cos there really was no mention about it anywhere.

Gee, forking out an additional RM12.00 a month for sports is kinda of a big deal, especially in times like these. It's not like they're not making money as it is. Practically everyone, well almost everyone are subscribing to them already so why the additional charge and why so sudden?

I don't know, maybe I've been living under a coconut shell and may have missed their announcements about the increase in subscription fees or something. But I think it's ridiculous. It's not like they're all that good anyway. Anyone with an Astro subscription will know how 'good' their service is when it rains and it doesn't even have to rain in your area to experience bad reception.

And what really irks me is the fact that they keep using the same old 'we're still the cheapest rate in South East Asia' nonsense. This 'still the cheapest in SEA' is getting pretty stale already. I mean, come on people, think up of some other sillier excuse la. It's not just Astro, even the bloody government uses the same crappy justification. Anytime they increase something, they'll always say we should be so lucky cos 'we're still the cheapest in SEA'.

I don't give two hoots if we're the cheapest in the world, all I care about is that I'm going to have to fork out more money and I don't even utilize the sports channels all that much, maybe the occasional football match or F1 race. I don't see myself subscribing to the sports channel as of this month. I don't think I'm going to be able to afford the increase. And besides I could always get my sports results live online anyway. As far as I'm concerned they've lost my subscription to the sports channel.

In hard times like these you'd expect things to not increase in cost but it's the other way around. The public transportation just took a 30% or was that 50% increase? Then there's news that the electricity tariffs are going to be going up again even though they just had a tariff increase and yes, you guess it, 'we still have the cheapest electricity tariff in SEA region' nonsense was given.

I think I should be looking for exit signs and just leave this planet, maybe stow away of that Spiff fellows rocket ship to planet Zork or something. If things keep going up at the rate it's going, I'll soon be needing a bank loan just to pay for my electricity bills! Oh, but wait, we're still the cheapest in the South East Asian region ... yippee, hooray, woohoo and all that!
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