sin tax

1. I'm a regular guy. As they say, boys would be boys. I would tend to do what guys normally do. I could not say that I'm a good person, nor a bad one. I share the same typical habits, etc. It all written in my DNA.

2. I'm going to write about boozing. Why booze ? Well, all normal blokes do. We do it, but not to the extend of overdoing it. The first issue about boozing is that it's becoming more and more expensive. It's stupid and I blame politics for it.

3. I can still recall that a bottle costs no more than RM200 back then. Now it's more than RM300. RM380 would get you a measly small Jack Daniels in a club. What has the world gotten into.

4. I working on a pay check. In a country where labor is cheap, there's not much I can get my hands onto. I had to study and work hard so that I can secure myself a professional position in hoping for better pay. Unfortunately, even in a professional arena we are paid lower than any other developing country in the world. Even a golf caddy earns better than me. How absurd.

5. So, in the pursuit of getting a booze, I had to share with couple of friends who shared a common inspiration. A bottle for 5 blokes is just adequate. RM50 had been enough per person to get ourselves wasted. Now, with the sin tax has raised, we had to fork out more than RM80 for a decent whiskey. Such travesty should have never been occurred. Seems that we are paying more and getting less.

6. I blame politics and government for this one. Sure, they can just rise up the tax so that it will contain people's bad habits. This is bullshit. We are slowly developing to a mature society, and we know how to control our habits. Look at Amsterdam. Even drugs are legal, their society are much more developed than ours.

7. Alas, for blokes out there, they only place you can source for cheap booze are duty-free shops. I'll be you're not that intellectually challenged enough to locate one. Nevertheless, booze can be really cheap out there whereas a bottle of Jim Beam costs only RM28. That's right, RM28. Even my phone bills is more expensive than that.