there are thousands of blue collar workers traveling into SG daily. Initially when i am staying in SG, i do feel that there are a lot of Malaysian in my office. but after moving to JB, i can say that the numbers you see is nothing compare to those traveling into SG by bike daily. you can know that they are blue collar workers because almost all of them wear boots, carrying a saw, and equipments for construction. besides those, you can also see a lot of them are factory workers because they are wearing their factory uniform. there is also a lot of Gain City employee traveling in daily . Lets say they clear 4 person every minute per counter. they have almost 50 counters in the motorcycle side when it is peak hours. imagine they are letting 100 people cross the border every minute by bike alone. the jam starts from 5:30am until 9:00am. so thats around 40-50k ppl per day. haven include those that carry pillion rider. and we also haven include those that take bus. i can say that there is very little Malaysian white collar worker in SG. mayb 80% blue collar, 20% white.

does this mean that it's still good within this year?

hoping to land one in Sg this June.

looks like its time for me to get myself a degree since S pass levy raise so much. just curious, they said there that a person are entitle for EP if we have salary more than  than 2.5k. also we need to have a professional cert (degree i suppose?) or we can commensurate it with 5 years working experience in a reputable company. so in other words, lets say i work in my current company more than 5 years and got more than 2.5k, so i am qualified to get an EP even i don't have a degree cert, am i right?

Yup..definitely need a guarantor my friend. But if you are really in sg..use the public transports available. Its way cheaper than using cars there..my 2cents.

Going for an interview with a debt management company!!

if the salary is lower than 1.8k, she is not even qualified to get an S pass. and recently the gov announce to increase the levy for S pass and work permit. i think its gonna be very tough for her.

how you guys get the job from singapore? I applied a lots through jobstreet but never response

The food here don't taste nice
Do you find any nice food around Jurong Point?

Do you like the money then? Many of us came here not because of the life here.

I'm here on January.. really no life... No entertainment, not many friends. Even when I spend, I need to think twice.

Need some help from you guys. Our CEO and CFO are coming to SG and I need to take them on a "city excursion" to fill 3 hours after lunch, before taking them back to the hotel to prepare for dinner.

Do you guys have any suggestions? Something with local flavour but preferably air conditioned, can drive to doorstep ie. not too much walking. It's mid afternoon after all and they will be somewhat jet-lagged.

Tentatively, my thinking is:

- Lunch at MBS
- Casino walkthru
- 1 Activity (current candidates include Artscience museum at Marina Bay, Flyer, River Cruise, Duck Tour... but the latter 2 no aircond!)... looking for more options from you guys.
- Singapore Sling at Long Bar, Raffles Hotel
- If time permits, drivethru Chinatown and Little India on the way back to hotel.

Appreciate any suggestions you have. If there's a superb idea that I can actually use, dinner's on me. Thanks very much.

Many have the paradigm that hanging out with friend late night at the mamak is life. Those who hate it here, I guess they are not good in adapting themselves in different place/culture, how are we going to climb up the career ladder if we are not good in adapting changes.

No offence.

The SG mgt team wants to give them a city tour. The theme is really to highlight SG as a good location for the company.

In Singapore, can we apply for new credit card using existing card with credit limit?

how did they calculate the tax amount ? you gave them the price ? according to 7% GST ?

Still have IRAS website to print out your annual contribution. If they see your cpf hit the limit, they will take your iras statement inorder to give you higher credit limit.

hi, got a problem here , would need some advice ~

plan to travel daily to Sg, and already found a room in Johor.

However , the problem i facing now is that I just started to go for the driving riding lesson. So, even until the day i need to drive ride motor into Sg, i only have the L license.

So, it is possible to go into Sg with motor L license?

Thanks all for reply. Reason I'm asking is I'm new here and I think the only time I'll need to use passport or Malaysia IC is when applying for banking account or phone line, etc. Rest of other time I think EP = IC in Singapore so I only bring with me my EP. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Any Senior herecan share info - Which SG Bank CC more benefits?

Have you guys bought your insurance here? Which type did you go for?

Hi all,

Just got my PR approved few weeks ago    

Have a few questions hope someone could answer me

1) When you converting license from MY license to Sg license, must go take letter from JPJ. I heard if you go to Johor JPJ, they will cut your MY license before giving you the letter? Other state JPJ they do not cut your license and just give you the letter. Is that right?
yup. JPJ will not cut. They will issue the letter and inside the letter they will ask LTA to cut.
2) According to SG police traffic/driving school, if you come to Singapore to work a period of time then only you get your MY license, you cannot convert already and you must retake the whole SG license which cost a lot of money. Anyone can advise?
Yes. you have to retake the whole test.
3) Those surgery/disease insurance that use your CPF to pay a portion of the sum. Is it advisable to get those? Any recommendation which one good? Heard NTUC not bad...
try get a hospitalization plan and critical illness plan

Thanks   

congrats.... i applied got rejected... hahahaa, care to share last year's bonus?

wat's HCL?

care to share last year's bonus?

Hi Mackiddo thanks for your reply.

So in the end no matter what the MY license will be cut? Anyway to not cut the MY license because in certain state like Johor ....sometime see luck but heard of cases police don;t accept Singapore license...so if you get caught and you don't have MY license you are considered driving without license

For no 2, anyway to go around this...it is damn expensive and I believe alot of people is in this situation but not much people talk about this.....