£1=84.5rupees

london
No headlines about this in the british press yet it is an amazing fall in the rupee. i remember last time i went to visit india in the 90s it was 60rupees=£1. 

the baht and ringgit and singapore $ have all strengthened. £1=49bahts, 4.9ringgits, S$1.9 so it must be indian govt's fault.bad budget.  haha. last time i was in s.e.asia (when? i cannot remember it is before 2008, maybe 2006. i have not been out of uk since oct 2008) it was £1=60bahts and i have known a time when it was £1=7ringgits. now the ringgit more or less shadows the baht.

there must be implications for us here in uk. maybe that is why the basmati rice is getting so cheap. 

what else? tourists to india must be finding it cheap. yet i dont hear of a rush there. 

no big promotion by any travel agent or travel articles in the sunday papers about it. why? 

ofset this by increase price of air travel, maybe. 

u must be wondering why i am suddenly talking international affairs about currency when i have kept quiet about all those headline worries... the lost kid, april who must be presumed dead. the abortion debate lowering it from its present 24weeks, the jimmy savile paedophile accusation by these women who are coming out of the woodwork accusing him after all these years keeping silent and after he has died and cannot defend himself. 

i must say i dont bother with all those. my soul couldnot care less. but obviously those affected , their souls want to rehash it so let them. but i dont have to read it. so i skip all that. 

so why am i talking about the rupee? because it might affect me that is why in that basmati rice may be cheaper for some time to come. haha. 

just today there were akash basmati 5kg rice for £5. well i am waiting for it being lower. i saw the tesco own brand basmati coming back on sale in tesco in clapham south and that cost £4 for 5kg.

 my local tesco was having its big night tonight. i never know it that it has this big night promotion tonight until i saw the kpnuts 300mg were on offer 2 for £2. just when i fancy some peanuts. 

did not see any other offers, when did they start doing these 'big nights' promotions? i happened to go in there after my swim, otherwise i would not have known. it sure was busy, so somehow word must have spread... so busy that the self service machines broke down, cannot take the strain, i guess. 

even if thai rice goes up in price, i can still fall back on basmati.

Ah well, you can see my life is full of these small trivialities haha.and that is why i like living my life now. 

it is fun to enjoy these  small trivialities that are not crucial . i would not like to be confronted with big problems like sickness, disease or debt or pain or death or injury. 

i am so glad i dont have those and am v grateful for it. 

so now the biggest decision i have to decide is whether i should go to the gym to work out or to the swimming pool to swim. decisions,decisions,haha.  

or shall i go to the library to read the papers or stay at home and surf the internet?

shall i have the brocolli for lunch or shall i save it for dinner?? 

haha, such a nice life this. 

shall i buy that cyclist shorts(with its padded bum) for £3, which i saw in the charity shop scope in walthamstow even though i dont cycle much nowadays??or not??

in the end i bought it. one of my impulsive buys. so nice to be so reckless!!! haha. 

Added, that is the trouble when u go to charity shops. u end up buying stuff. 

that is all the kinds of recklessness that i like doing. not for me being reckless by jumping off a cliff without a parachute and highdiving into the heaving sea. 

oh, another reckless buy was paying £20 for 5 50ml bottles of own brand poppers from the guy who used to run the sexclub the fort. i went there to meet him and buy it and have a chat with him about his decision toclose the club. 
the building will be made into 9 luxury flats it seems. 

and he got various things to sell, but when i saw him most of it were gone, except for the poppers which were his own brand. 

i dont know why i bought them, i guess for old times sake. haha. i dont do poppers that much... only when i want to get fucked, because it makes me lose my hard on. but it sure is great if u want to be a bottom. haha. 

ah well, now i got all these poppers... 

Added 10.10.12. there must be a glut of vegetables now. so many supermarkets are selling veg for 50p. lets hope it keeps up till i go to brighton, so i can buy some when i go to david's.

The funny thing is the papers have been warning us of bad harvest and increase in fruit and veg. fruit may be increasing in price, but veg definitely is not.

veg goes bad so if they are too expensive people dont buy them and then there will be a fire sale to get rid of the veg before they rot. 

there is a limit to how much veg u can eat. even me who likes my veg can get fed up of eating the same old veg. unlike in s.e.asia where the veg are so varied, here we only have the brocolli, lettuce, cabbage, celery, cauli. rather boring actually.