If the arab owners can make money, this is a big slap to the china-man's face that their china-man management is not the way to go if they want 2 have a sustainable business. But then again a china-mans greed is as big as his ego.

Then let them bleed for not making a sound financial decision, plus the management is till china-man and screwing everybody around. They got their oil money to cushion the losses.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Jun 26 2010, 11:39 AM

Its not the luxury of the particular item but availability of it in a certain region. You dont see many people have that particular brand, since its an offshoot of a particular brand, its not so common in singapore whereas every tom, d***, harry and sally has an LV product on them in some shape or form. Its become so generic that it loses its appeal as a exclusive item where the rich can only afford if its common place to see it everywhere.

Should be ok around those areas. Theres a few places i know (all occupied) in pasir ris near a school and around 10-15 min walk to the mrt where the going rate is around 2k for a executive hdb 4 room with a rather large living room.

use malaysian proxy. Unfortunately i dont have a stable and fast malaysian proxy, most of them are either slow or unreliable or both.

You can consider yourself special or unique since your the only one on S Pass whereas everybody else is on EP. Do you see a diff between those who are on EP and those on S Pass?

More often then not its just the status of the pass which foreigners are concern about, PR is their ultimate goal since they start gummy bear job hunting.

I've always wondered how does "the company" factor in when they help you to get a PR. I wonder how much weight is given for an employers recommendation towards an employee when it comes to PR application.

If im not mistaken, the chances of you getting PR in the mechanical engineering department is more likely since the job usually entails a non-office type of work which most Singaporeans shun, since less singaporeans are willing to go into a respective field, mom would most likely grant pr preference to those in a field where singapore is lacking in skilled manpower.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Jul 1 2010, 11:14 PM

half is not expensive, its standard, there are some agents who want a months rental rather then half.

Power sial, only allowed to bath 2 times a day?

Just to show how "ngiau" singaporeans can get. They give scrooge mcduck a run for his money.

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Added on July 5, 2010, 8:32 amWhat rooms do you have available and cost?

This post has been edited by crapp0: Jul 5 2010, 08:32 AM

So far your the first story i've heard where the landlord stipulates a limit on how many baths you can take. Feels like water rationing during communist occupation.

Most landlords would balk at the idea of u staying at home on the weekend using up the precious electricity, worse still if your using the air cond over the weekend non stop which even i have to agree is over the top unless its very hot.

Or you can rent a whole flat and then you get the headache of how to equally divide the utilities. One forumer had an excellent idea to fix that problem, akin to having a gun pointed to your head.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Jul 5 2010, 12:47 PM

I dont think he's kidding if its his own law.

I believe EP only, anything other then an EP you'll have to come face 2 face with the immigration officer.

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Added on July 7, 2010, 7:33 pmWhy dont you just buy a monitor in singapore and hook that up to your existing laptop. Then you can use either the laptop or the monitor as your main screen with a secondary screen.

I got that set up at my office with my laptop screen as main and secondary for spreadsheets or outlook and widgets. Quite kesian that i "borrowed" one of my colleague 22 inch lcd and the fella ended up with a 17 inch that was laying around the office.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Jul 7 2010, 11:02 PM

Correction, you cant survive on that pay.

Not quite the response i had expected, but fair enough.

More like late 80's to early 90's. Mid 90's people started using the "contractor" phone.

Then the alcatel phones which used 4 AA batteries.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Jul 9 2010, 09:29 AM

Thats why singapore government agencies have an ace up their sleeve, the "fear factor" due to their policy of tough fines and enforcement. It makes you think twice about trying something.

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Is it cheaper to get cans of abalone in sg compared to my?

By how much?

I notice the "moon" brand is very popular. Never bought one of those since my family doesnt really appreciate abalone.

Nowadays even simple repair jobs are being outsourced to china. But people do it at their own risk or are desperate. Recently there was one DNV ship which came from china, the whole engine room was flooded with fuel since the fuel lines were done in china. I heard the DNV surveyor in china is gonna get it, but then again, you get what you paid for and the ching chong surveyor was doing his job ala "close one eye".

I had a colleague who went to china and noticed most of the workers over there are unskilled, talk about asking a farmer with no prior knowledge in machine fabrication to do their job properly and in accordance to DNV standards. Heck they even defecate themselves in the workplace, and a woman no less.

I guess everybody in the shipping industry will have headaches once china produced start pumping out at an increasing rate due to south korea and japan shipyards having their hands full with pre-orders till 2012.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Jul 12 2010, 02:02 PM

I do surveys and inspection, not just for ships, i also do oil rigs, drilling platforms, FPSO's and military vessels (mainly US SOC).

But i tend not to take on yard jobs since shipyards are now getting too much being an arsehole, delaying payment and constant request for discounts by delyaing payment until you have little choice but to take their offer. So far sembawang is still not so bad, keppel is getting worse every year and i refuse to goto jurong since thats ground zero for management and attitude problem for all of the staff over there.



This post has been edited by crapp0: Jul 13 2010, 05:29 PM