Landlord just raised my rental. 1 person staying near Lakeside MRT for $500...is that considered expensive? Haven't checked rental rates in awhile.

Thinking of staying at JB too since I work in Tuas. But nowadays too many OT, finish 8.30 can't imagine what time I can reach home if stay at Gelang Patah there.

Any sabahans here? i'm going back this weekend =)

Haha but my room is just normal room in a 2+1 hdb.

No kidding. I bought Sg-Pg normal 3 seater bus for $120. Talk about cut throat (flights sold out). Normally how much is the price? I'm hoping Sg busses won't pull the stop-at-every-state-along-the-way stunt like the last time I bought those sekarang-jalan busses at JB.

The rates won't differ by much as long as you change at money changer and not those bank booths. Even if you change thousands of RM or SGD, maybe you will see a difference by a few RM. Do whatever is convenient.

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Added on December 6, 2010, 7:16 pmRemitting seems to have higher exchange rate. Saw that day 2.28 vs 2.29 at Jurong Point. Not sure if the fee is high or not.

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Anybody driving back from Pg to Sg after cny? Around 5-6th Feb 2011?

Wah you walk 3-4km to work daily?

Doesn't tighter spread means better rates? IE the rates they offer is closer to the actual exchange rate.

First time taking night bus? All the night busses are susceptible this kind of problem so better go prepared. Some even bring duct tape to block all the air vents around their seat.


They are the outfit sub contractor for all our rigs.

Transocean is building a drillship at PTP? Or the ship stopped at PTP to have this retrofit?

Just now attended presentation of 1000mt crane by Favalle Favco. Didn't know it was a Malaysian company till they mention the fabrication is being done in Selangor.

I just joined. Anyway if it's a rig and has lots of open mushroom air cowls, most probably they are built by my company. Scarebeo 9 sailed into our yard as a commissioning job only but turned into a repair =P. I highly doubt Petrobras will skip Singapore as one THE leading rig builders in the world for jackups and semis. I'm quite optimistic Sg will land a few contracts. Anyway we will know the results of tender quite soon so we shall see =).

Well I guess i'm lucky they have BrasFELS there =)

I've seen Yantai Raffles work. Halfway towards wet tow, the semi built there got flooded. What was supposed to be a newbuild came into our yard as a repair. China may be cheaper, but the proof is in the finished work, and they aren't looking that good. Anyway none of the China yards were bidding.

This post has been edited by reign226: Dec 8 2010, 11:39 PM

Okay considering the flight is only few weeks from now. The earlier you buy the cheaper. Bus from JB to PG around RM60 if not mistaken.

Nice idea. Too bad I will be in KL, then Penang, then KK for the next 3 weekends. Maybe after that. =P

Hardwarezone : Messy but high traffic. Not organized.
VR Zone: More organized, Lowyat standard, but a lot less volume.

Those are the two I know. More for IT and gadget stuff. I realize Sg seldom people sell sec hand stuff, even if they do its at a very slight discount only.

Lowyat.net FTW!

Local chinaman companies are like that everywhere, especially in Malaysia. Most of my friends only cukup makan with their salary. At least if you work here 1.5-1.6k can still save some money on top of your normal lifestyle. If you don't like their offer, don't take it. I'm sure they have their reasons for offering you such a pay. Maybe they only need certain quality of people for the price so will keep looking until they find it.


Middle of the night no transport and kena chop by Taxi leh...but got few places like Clarke Quay, 24 hour food courts, mcd for the night prowler. I rather sleep at night. Gone are the days of uni where it's common to go Mamak eat. Still can't find decent roti canai here. Nor Naan.

What's NOV office doing here? Field engineer? Got flexible working hours or not? Heard american companies are big on flex hours.


Yes. Why ask?

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Added on December 10, 2010, 11:49 pmAnybody driving to Penang on 24th Nite?

This post has been edited by reign226: Dec 10 2010, 11:49 PM

Well my uni supplies them as well. I guess they are the cheaper, more disposable type. So far I find them to be quite comfortable after a period of wear in. Then again I don't go to site that often. It's quite heavy though. Train my legs everytime I put them on.

Later going to join the Pentax outing! Shooting all over orchard st. Going to put my 100-300mm to good use for people sniping. =)

Whats a kpp?

Haha true! My friend does that also. They all like to reverse parking. I think partly because the parking spaces are so small that reverse parking is the best way to angle the car in.

I second that. I drove here before and the parking lots are so small with parking so cramped that I had to reverse park, otherwise difficult to enter and exit the lots.

Smuggling back a lot of Marks & Spencer food =P