Value Of 1 Cent

Hi friends,

Back again with another observation I made during this holiday.

It's very interesting to see the set of skills that the locals acquired as a result of adapting to their surrounding. The skill that I'm most marveled at is talking in a noisy environment. Pretty much the places I've been around here are tourist attractions and naturally there are loads of noises going around. The chatter of the people, public performances, roadside sellers yelling to attract buyers and etc. It's pretty hard to to converse in that sort of environment but I see the locals here having no problems with it. Very interesting indeed.

Another interesting observation is the value of 1 cent in this country. The people here don't round up or round down their prices at store. So if a juice sells for 1.99, it is literally 1.99. In contrast, Malaysia will round up to the nearest 5 cents because they want to stop the circulation of 1 cent due to its low valuation. I certainly have no issue at all with this. It's just a mere observation that I think could evolve to another important worldly view of life.

In particular, the value that I attach to other currency is vastly different that the ringgit. Even for a number as low as 1 cent creates a huge difference in the value that it carries. When I take this to a bigger picture, a lot of questions that comes to mind. How do one place has a stronger currency than the other? How does the cost of living and minimum wage are related? And then some.

Today's post isn't my best one because my train of thoughts aren't as connected as I wanted to. But I'm just going to put my thoughts and observations here.

Thanks for visiting, friends!