Ridiculous situations...

As a follow-up of my blog on 30 October 2008...

I have just read my November 2008 utilities bill from SP Services. Given the same amount of consumption as in October 2008, but due to the price increase in electricity, I have to pay an additional S$28 just for the electricity consumption alone. Isn't the increase ridiculously high? Come to think about it, why are there no alternative energy providers? If there is no competition, consumers would tend to suffer.

Just another related thought. It is quite funny if you think deeply about it, a rail transport company such as SMRT is operating all the three modes of land transport, namely rail transport, taxis and buses. The name SMRT stands for Singapore Mass Rapid Transit, which is a rail transport company. But, it ended up operating a fleet of taxis and buses in addition to the rail transport. With this sort of arrangement, I am not sure if there would be a conflict of interests, in terms of creating competitions?

I came across a certain manufacturing concern, the Production Department and Quality Control Department were managed by the same director or manager. How to control the quality of production in this case? That is utterly ridiculous! The funniest thing is that the boss himself still thought he was doing the right thing.