Not sure about electronic engineering. But mechanical engineer with 3 year exp in OnG/Marine and depending on which company your attached would be getting around 4-5K or more.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Mar 25 2011, 01:08 PM

Even the bangla, indian, burmese and china labourers cant survive on 60 dollars a month on food expenses alone. And that after the fact that they cook for themselves which is generally cheaper then buying out.

The bangla and indian laborers usually spend around 80-120 for food if they cook themselves 3 square meals a day which mainly consist of vegetable curry and rice 6 days a week with one day allocated as "non-vege" day.

Just ask any laborer and they will tell you the same story or just goto any of the shipyard or mechanical engineering outsourcing company and ask their foreign staff.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Mar 26 2011, 07:47 PM

Haha, very true. Its quite common for alot of SME's in singapore to follow the mantra of "You can do whatever you want, just dont get caught or be prepared to pay a large enough bribe".

I know personally the son of the boss of a certain company who has escaped reservist duty by bribing a doctor to make up a report that he is mentally unfit to do his reservist. All he has to do is cough up 6k which is chump change for him.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Mar 27 2011, 11:26 PM

At least you dont goto a clients place and take "their" pantries supply of instant coffee like one fella i know and then say its ok since they have alot in stock.

Indian national fella. They'll also ask you in your face how much your earning as well.

Anybody familiar with the shoe brand cushe?

Just got a pair of those shoes for only 47 dollars and onitsuka tiger for 70 at sale.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Mar 28 2011, 10:59 AM

Most companies related to the marine line pay their staff below market rate wages as evident by you having masters but only getting less then what the median salary is to be expected from a degree hold, much less a masters.

Since its a shipyard company or a company whose business is within the marine field but most of your work is done within a shipyard. Could it be either keppel shipyard, drydocks world shipyard, sembawang shipyard or SMOE, PSA, jurong shipyard, ST Marine or PPL shipyard. Take your pick.

If your a subi and do contracts under shipyards, you have to put up with the shipyard engineers ego's, some who rival or surpass LKY.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Mar 28 2011, 01:29 PM

Are you in keppel gul, keppel fels, keppel benoi or keppel singmarine?

Im now in keppel fels, attached to transoceans key gibraltar jackup rig. Recently went down to keppel benoi, was surprised that the ship frontier phoenix was there for either some repairs or minor refit since i did some work onboard that ship last year and it wasnt long ago that the ship went to keppel tuas to fix a damaged azimuth thruster.

It aint cheap to drydock in any of keppels shipyards.

If any of you wondered the difference living in other countries compared to your own, you can try to site to see a comparison between to countries.
http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/

This post has been edited by crapp0: Mar 28 2011, 01:44 PM

Not sure but i can ask around. I usually come later then the derrick hands and roughnecks.

There was one rig which is currently occupying the drydock area where the GSF Key was. I think its a malaysian manned rig since i hear the announcement on their intercom system being broad casted in both english and malay.

Oh dude, you got one of the f***** up engineering companies man. Their nothing but cheap labour fronts for keppel and various other shipyards. Their more like manpower companies rather then being a true engineering firm. That and kwong soon engineering all hire alot of bangla and indian workers. Plus all the old timers at the shipyards like to bully these people for no good reason other then to inflate their self esteem.

I would suggest you try other companies, i heard NOV, halliburton or WOM are looking for people. You could give them a try. Btw, WOM means world oilfield machine.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Mar 28 2011, 10:40 PM

Yup, it was drydocked earlier in the mid of march but was moved to accomodate the other rig. Took 2 days just to move it to the quay side so i relax for 2 days while they moved it to the new location.

My singaporean cousin is working for challenger. From what i noticed its pretty relaxed environment.

That makes you a creep. Just try and check her facebook page.

Its either keppel, sembawang or jurong.

My bet is sembawang since keppel tuas recent bonus payout was 8.5.

Our income is not taxed by the malaysian government since were not working in malaysia and malaysia does not tax repatriated monies.

Burmese on the other hand is a different case. I was talking to a filipino and he told me that his country is facing the problem that overseas filipinos who repatriate money back are actually damaging or at best making their own country uncompetitive. Anybody have a theory on this?

What would you expect from a oil and gas equipment supplier?

Anybody know the cost of antiviral meds? Specifically "aciclovir".

A close fren of mine mom was admitted into hospital with a viral infection in her brain and the cost of the antiviral med is very expensive.



This post has been edited by crapp0: Apr 4 2011, 09:59 AM

Who knows. Its the governments OSA to keep foreigners from knowing the exact criteria they need to meet since if they did know it, alot of people would just follow the guidelines and get PR's easily.

Yesterday me and the project manager went to one fabrication workshop to check personally the progress of some items that were facing some delays due to difficulties fabricating said items.
Unfortunately this order for the custom fabricated items were done through a sub-contractor who was recommended to us by keppel fels.

Arriving at this companies workshop gave us a clear picture why there were delays since the pictures speak for themselves.

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Im amazed that the keppel staff even had the gall to recommend this subi to us since its very reminiscent of a junkyard rather then a proper workshop.

Actually, it was the main contractor who sub-con it to another fella whom we have no direct dealings since we certified the main contractor but not the sub-con. Looks like my operations department has to talk to the main contractor about this matter since it is a serious breach of quality assurance.

I smell that the main contractor wasnt being truthful to us since if im not mistaken, any jobs being handled by a sub-con under the main contractor should be reported to us for a proper assessment/audit.

My project managers blaming the keppel engineers who recommended the contractor as well as the sub-con whom i think wont really matter since the sub-con is under the main contractor and not directly under us. In all likelihood the main contractors head is gonna roll.

Its also quite hard to believe that singapore which prides itself to be a modern facility for engineering and environmental awareness can even allow this place to be operating. My first though is, "Why isnt this place closed down by the NEA" since from the pictures you can see stagnant water everywhere and i thought the NEA conducts inspection at business premises.

Looks like another "Ali Baba" job.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Apr 7 2011, 07:03 PM