How to survive like that?

GST went up another 2%... bus fares have gone up... cost of groceries too... even the Meiji milk I buy from my office canteen has been increased by 10 cents!!! That's a whopping 12% increase in price of the milk. Has my salary been increased in par with the increased cost of living? Eeeeeeeh... no!!! My salary was increased by 3% last year and 4% this year... that barely offsets the inflation... let alone be an actual "increment". I'm suffering losses in fact. More bad news... my company declared that they will be giving us this year's bonus next year. WTF!!! Smells like a scam if you ask me. So much for retiring at 40. *sigh*