The difference between cost and value is about getting what you pay for. In Singapore, rising cost and falling value is evidenced by a plate of tasteless chicken rice costing more than $6; a 15-minute cab ride after midnight for over $20 and your job paying you peanuts for work supposedly meant for three monkeys. These are your daily chores and you complain but do nothing about it. But the contrary is true of our clubbing circuit; you do get more than what you paid for.