recently i spoke to the man on the street, he said "gang kor", hang jeng si bei pai". In english, it means difficult and times are damn bad. I ask him how come. He said everything going up. utility bills up, a cup of kopi at kopitiam also going up and seems like won't come down. his pay appears to be the only thing which stays. "how to survive?" i think times are not good generally. the singapore economy is not doing well and the worst it are the normal man on the streets. innovate upgrade...yeah sure..tell that to someone who has only secondary education earning 1.5kpm doing 2 different shift jobs with little time even to take a breather; and whatever income comes in, it rapidly goes out to pay handphone bills, utlity bills, transport, rental etc... how to innovate, upgrade..? u got to be ......