Sep 12, 2008

Inflation


This time so busy, even no time for blog. Sometime really want to write something, some thinkings boiling in my mind (as the Vietnam's servere inflation now), but still keep it, still have not time to put it yet into blog.

Beginning of the year, there is one new policy of Government: Forbid tricyclo ( included: delivery tricyclo, trolley, tree-wheeled taxi, pedicab drawn by a bicyclo or motorbike, pedicab..) traffic whithin cities...


One month later, there is one more new policy of Government: Forbid street vendor, peddler one's wares, hawker within cities...


After that, everything has risen in price, special foods: the cost of everything has gone double up, even threefold or fourfold up...


Last month, I have heard the news: The cost of petrol has suddenly rocket-up: from 14500 vnd rocket up to 19000vnd!!!!


After dizzy moment I was continue falling in a deeply sadness: sad and worry for poorer people, street-vendors, motorbike taxi drivers and tricyclo driver whose toil away to earn their living by tricyclo or peddles things ....


Worry for myself (because the cost of everything has gone up but salary still keep as before!!!) just little, but worry for others much (because now who are poor will poorer... )


In old days, Street-Vendors are very close to me, I saw them every where: in fornt of school, in fornt of the Church where I came daily afternoon and they passed over by my house veryday. They gave me noshes (of course it's mean I bought), they give me their shrill - goods's advertise (Ai che dau xanh-nuoc dua-duong cat hong..g..g..g.. ). They gave me honeyed-childhood with many small toys and also gave me the first lesson in laborious and teach me how is money's valid: they amass one by one dong money for their children's schooling...


From now, tricyclos and street-vendors will go into the Past (maybe in the countryside still have), and someday in the Future, my children will ask me: "what is tricyclo? what it look like? How is street-vendors? what they sell? is it as good as we use it in a big restaurant?...."


How can I explain...?!