2.3k ... seems expensive, but every other unit i've seen over the last week in tampines/simei/bedok area is similar price but is (i) few bus stops away, (ii) smaller, or (iii) interior like crap ... so ... can lah, just whack


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At above $2 per sq ft on paper I also would say it is pricey cos around the area I also looked at a few places that were like $1.70-$1.80 per sq ft (rental per month). But after seeing like a dozen places over the last week+ ... it's the best value (to me). don't mind paying extra for very close to mrt + (relatively) big 4NG + full furnished + nice ceiling fixtures & etc after renovation ... don't care lah ha ha.


wahlau i am small fry junior manager level only leh. see my rental place also need to find hdb and not condo.

city hall is middle of town leh. for that budget you might need to extend your search to further away. by MRT not bad lah, you green line all the way to tampines also is like 25minutes only.

take taxi lor.

if wanna save $$ take mrt lor. green line all the way.

Employee deduction only applicable for citizen & PR.

Employer 15.5% at company discretion whether they wanna encash for you or not.

Actually speaking of MRT/Bus ... how do you guys define "elderly?" sometimes i sit i see some auntie or uncle and I can't decide whether they qualify for 'elderly' ... so dunno should get up or not haha.

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Hmm my GF came in to Singapore last Friday and put '4' days on her white card. And she's already been here for 10. Tomorrow she go back JB ... I let you guys know whether got problem or not lol.

guys just for sake of discussion (i'm poor, can't afford) ... i see on the LTA website that OPC (off peak car) rebate is $17k.

but latest COE bid is $62k. so effectively speaking, now u buy new off peak car also still need to fork out $45k to government?

or is my understanding of the off peak car scheme fundamentally wrong?

@sean ehe nolah was just asking how the off peak scheme works. cos at the current COE price of 60-70k, a 17k discount is like hardly worth mentioning, so I was wondering what all the fuss is about.

on the other hand moving back 1+years to like jan-mar 2010 ... coe then was ~20k, so in that context a 17k discount makes a lot more sense to give up daytime driving.

mnc ceo earns way more than 24k ringgit. nowadays 24k is like senior manager or division head already earns that.

Rome wasn't built in a day. You can't reasonably expect to be pulling 10k+ directly out of college/uni. Being $2k now isn't anything to be ashamed of, but if you want to be a $10k+ earner in the future then make sure you have a plan to get there (and not just hope it'll fall out of the sky into your lap).

one of my colleagues said that geylang got "code" one, the lorong number will roughly correspond to (1) whether got ayam or not and (2) what country the girls are from ... haha!

was during dinner at the beef noodle & frog leg porridge place that he said that

@yinyum/ivan: not so hard to plan one. within your industry/company/job scope, you look upwards you will also know agak agak how high you need to climb in order to achieve your target $$. so the question then is just building whatever needed education, qualifications, certifications, experience, and skills so that you can rise to that target.

example i'm currently sort of a hybrid IT/projects/finance line. in order to sit in my boss place, i need experience in running projects and some sort of formal qualification - either PMP or MBA in Proj Mgmt. The former will come naturally in my current role, the latter I need to plan with regards to sacrificing time & money & effort to get that qualification. Then after that it's a matter of looking for opportunities, whether it's within the same company or elsewhere.

Hmm lots of the the better bkt in klang are served in individual ceramic bowls and not claypot. the ones in klang with claypot are sort of ... just average tasting haha.

pao xiang i've tried a few of their branches in kl and ... for klang standard it's just "above average" only. if you have the opportunity, go to the "under the bridge" ones near/around the klang ktm komuter station - those are widely thought of as the best bkts.

Soo Kee? I ate there a while back and thought the noodles just so-so only. Might as well just eat at the Geylang one, taste better.




yeah i heard that too. but i didn't grow up in KL so I only last couple of years when working in KL then only go klang eat bkt, so I got no way to compare how good it was last time.

Ok I'm a few pages late, but just wanted to weigh in on the 3G data coverage. I'm on starhub green (prepaid), buying 7-day 1.5gig plans at $7 per week.

What I notice is that in high density areas like malls, etc, the 3G speed is atrocious. Even though signal strength is 4- or 5- bars, i get slow speeds, bad latency, etc.

Here we go with the WP bashing again OK tukar subject.

http://www.lta.gov.sg/motoring_matters/mot...de_overview.htm


Eh we working & staying in singapore not allowed to drive malaysian cars in?

@Lester: Thanks. Trying to figure out what to do with my (malaysian registered) car. Don't wanna sell cos the market price is less than loan redemption price by like rm8k. Might as well keep since it's <$200/mth installment.

For now, sister using but in aug she go study ... then the car ... ?!? park in JB on the weekdays then friday night bus to JB and drive car into SG for the weekend? ... can park in my gf's parents' house geh but i dun want to see them every week ...

sausage party again ar? ... couldn't join cos i only knocked off work at close to 8 last night.

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Added on June 18, 2011, 2:41 pm
Yeah, been checking out the loan redemption and the current market value (damn you 9 year loan), seems like I won't really lose that much after all - looking at 1-2thousand RM. Selling time!

This post has been edited by deodorant: Jun 18 2011, 02:41 PM

Oo I went to Expo just now to check out the Courts sale. Since I've only been in SG a few weeks maybe I haven't got a proper "sense" of the strength of SGD, but a lot of things there seem damn cheap leh. $10 irons, $3xx 32" LCD TVs, $2k 47-inchers, etc etc.

Too bad I dun have apartment yet so couldn't really buy ...

HDB requirements too strict ler. Buy secondary market too expensive, buy primary market need to convert citizenship (or buy with a Singaporean). But then also the $8k combined income ceiling too easy to bust.

@precursor: get a Malaysian doctor to certify us as unsound mind ... then can withdraw before 50 XD