Did you buy your ticket before you got your leave approved? Or did they withdraw the approval at thhe last minute?

If you can't avoid it, then why don't you pull some all nighters now to get everything done by Thursday? Or is there something you need from someone else and they will only give it to you Friday?

Yeah, you must be flying out from Senai... having the cross the causeway etc.. kinda defeats the purpose of flying.

I'm flying out at 10am on Saturday morning from the Budget Terminal. Paid double for the ticket though, as it's an extra flight.


Use your annual leave between Feb 22-28. Then tender your resignation on Feb 28 and the new company pays in lieu of the effective notice period from March 1-31.

This post has been edited by seantang: Feb 10 2010, 01:30 PM

Not wrong to want to save money.

Before Airasia stopped flying IPH-JHB, I always flew from Ipoh into Senai. Then took a cab or airport shuttle bus to JB town and then a Singapore Comfort cab from JB Kotaraya 2 back to Singapore.

But I never flew out of Senai. Reason being is that the plane will not wait for you, and the causeway / 2nd link can be damn unpredictable in terms of time taken to cross. That means having to leave Singapore very early,.. like 5 hours before the flight ETD... JUST IN CASE there's a jam at the causeway or if all your bus/train/taxi connections are delayed. The total time taken from the moment I leave my flat in Singapore until the time I reach home in Ipoh.., I actually don't save any time at all compared to taking a coach from Golden Mile. To me, that generally defeats the whole purpose of flying.

This post has been edited by seantang: Feb 10 2010, 02:20 PM

Mine is RM724.90. Return ticket.

It's nice when the route has some competition. IPH-SIN is a monopoly. They can charge whatever they want.

That's great And I like to believe that you would have thrown caution to the wind and board that flight anyway, even if they didn't approve your leave. Got to show the audit firms that they can't push you around all the time

I'm not the one categorizing. It's Bank of America. Google for it. I think it's their investment bankers.

Probably never going to go to the casino with the $100 levy. Damn... they are even charging $10 to walk through an empty Universal Studios theme park with no rides, no food and no attractions.

Nope. That's not always true. That's too much of a broad sweeping motherhood statement to make.

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Added on February 19, 2010, 2:02 pm
Your friends shouldn't smoke too much weed lah.


This post has been edited by seantang: Feb 19 2010, 02:02 PM

That your friends are either very misinformed or very intent on misinforming you.

What do you mean "but she is a girl"? What so peculiar about her being a girl?


I imagine that the questions would be pretty much the same as those likely to be asked by accounting firms in Malaysia... no?

The price of food is generally S$0.8:RM1. The price for everything else is S$0.4:RM1. The only exception is rental which is S$1:RM1.


Why don't you check out the income tax rates in Sg and My before you blurt something like that out? And also how fast the tax brackets climb in My, compared to Sg?

Sg has GST of 7%, but GST is on spending only... ie. your savings is not taxed 7%. The higher income tax in Malaysia taxes both savings and spending. Additionally, Malaysia has 5% service tax, higher car taxes and GST will be introduced soon enough.

Yeah... the exchange rate does wonders for goods imported by both Sg and My. I love buying the newest handphones at S$700 bucks rather than RM2000.

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Added on February 20, 2010, 9:54 am
Nope. You can apply for PR anytime. Even before your EP is approved... ie. apply as a foreigner from their home country.

No idea on the success rate. Anecdotal evidence is arguable. Namely because your employer will generally employ the same kind of people as you are, and your friends... birds of a feather flock together. So most forumer testimonies are either biased one side or the other, depending on their standards.

This post has been edited by seantang: Feb 20 2010, 09:54 AM

Back in Singapore... and back to work tomorrow


Anyone can apply. I don't think there are any restrictions or exclusions. Success rate is about 48.932%.

It wasn't exactly a holiday. Had a financial estimate to submit into a US file server on 2nd day (lucky my Celcom broadband behaved itself), a late night phone conf with my new boss in the US, amendments to my org chart following that phone call and do a 40 slide presentation for a 2 day meeting that starts at 8.30am tomorrow. It was no picnic lah...

Really depends on what kind of job is involved. If you work with your hands doing something technical or mechanical, all you need is to understand instructions. But if you're a hotel concierge or working in a bank or MNC, the minimum standard is much higher.

Doesn't the casino take a commission on the winning hands when you bet on the banker?

You're aiming quite low, no?

Anyone who has 3 years of experience and an acceptable qualification can become a Chartered Accountant by joining MIA.

The ultimate aim is to get the biggest salary you can get. Whatever title they call you is beside the point.

Don't you think that whatever you can think of, the casino industry has already thought of and employed counter-measures against long, long ago?

But the chap above is right. The combination of minimum bet and table limit stops you from doubling up.

The casino ALWAYS has an edge on the odds.

Depending on the bulkiness of the stuff, 2 or 3 DHL jumbo boxes kow tim.