The $1 City

Waiting to board the flight to Sydney now in Brunei airport. This afternoon, Jason & I paid $25 for a city tour which lasted 2 hours. We visited a mosque (the sultan's mosque apparantly), a photo stop for the water village, and a night market ... anyway tot $25 was quite reasonable till we realised how cost of living here is neligible ... in fact it just cost $1.

Did you know petrol only cost 0.50 per liter? Reallly cheap ... and we also found out everything here cost only $1 .. well most things.

Education is free til University.

Visits to hospitals, clinics are only .. $1.

If you need surgery in case kena some bad ass disease, it only costs .... $1. Serious.

Brunei has so much money they don't really place a value to the item according to what they're really worth anymore. Hahhaha

I guess they don't want to be seen giving away free living, so they charge services for $1

So the last stop was the night market where the tour guide said there was food to buy ... Jason + 1 ran to the stores because we only had 5 mins ... guess what? Pack of chicken rice was only $1! haha. Jason bought a pack of economical rice with 2 meat, one vegetables and it only cost $1. But the bad thing was things were sold according to items, so my skewer of 5 fishballs was also $1. Chicken wing per pc was $1. Haha .. doesnt make much sense.

I wonder how much grads are paid ...