Not too much on working in SG, you can get the picture just by reading Working in Singapore v1-v7. It's more to your new company and new job?

@_@ tat's alot of reading.
Anyways I did briefly read thru most of it... but still felt abit restrained in a few ways in SG?
Like no car to get around, and small area to explore / enjoy?

Modified B. I'm gonna stay here for 5-10 years so long my parents back home do not require my immediate attention.

At the start, you shall learn to take bus/MRT/Taxi to go around. To maintain a car is expensive here, just the monthly HDB parking fee in a multi storey car park is $90 and the fuel around $2.00/liters and the parkings fees and the ERP(TOLL) charges and the car services/maintanance fees and if kena traffic summons....headahce....

It is not hard to mix around as there are lots of people like you in Singapore. You can hang out with those forumers here which they may have gatherings altough i have never joined them before. Also, can go join some activities at their community center if they accept you. Can dance aerobic with the uncle/aunties there, may be got taichi, wing chun. , also, can join the local people for some basketball/badminton/ping pong games. Also can hang out at the shopping malls for movies.

but i dun like the malls here...all of them very small and sempit... even for vivocity the supposely biggest mall in SG when compare to midvalley or 1u i think no comparison....

Lol... understand. I do think SG cars are expensive as well. One mid sized car can costs $80K

Well, shopping malls are small, and some of them seems have been left for quite a long time and abandoned like tat. And, most of the shopping malls here carry most of the same stuff, dont you think?
Erm, btw my age is not till uncle/aunties yet laa...
Understood... but if I take up this offer, I think I will be short term in SG, well at least that's what I think for now

2.5 by CNY please.

wah belum datang thinking of car, elite
shopping malls are small, sure or not ?
carry the same stuf, u sure or not ?
age subjective, most here at 18 only (at heart)

short term in singapore, going to hit 2.5 soon , there is no turning back

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Added on July 22, 2011, 1:56 pminteresting question, bump this so other member can contribute

This post has been edited by ivanswk: Jul 22 2011, 01:56 PM

Here's the trend of the exchange rates....at the start of the year..aka nearby CNY..the rates will be normally at its lowest...but towards the end of the year....aug-sept-oct-nov...the rates will be higher...as u can see now the rates are higher compared to the beginning of the year...so if u wanna exchange SGD-MYR....around this time of the year will be a good time...after that...nov-dec-jan it will start to drop...
reason...lotsa MYsian like u n me will need MYR during CNY...so lotsa ppl sell SGD..therefore SGD drops.....

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Added on July 22, 2011, 2:02 pmI would choose C...but planning to start a family....kids will be much later on...retire?probably will retire back in MY lor

This post has been edited by tailtwist: Jul 22 2011, 02:02 PM

Coz I like to drive car But if the costs of owning one is too high, I will not get one then.
Erm, most of them are small, maybe I did not explore enough? Lol...
Err carry same stuff, I think so coz just the other day I saw one person wearing the same clothes I am... tat i bought in sg. small place... or im just unlucky tat day
Age is age, well feeling young is also a good thing

Turning back o not depends on the work environment i am going to get in SG... might change my mind, might not as well

er ... how about no? i'm not in the FX line but I'm almost certain that us small retail players have little to no influence on exchange rates.

I agree. Retail currency buyers like us are small fry in terms of moving forex rates.

If any slowdown is observed during CNY period, I reckon it's due to the fact that SG's mfg sector shuts down for a couple of weeks during that period, plus its slower leading and out of the period. Exports are down, demand for SGD also down. Same for service sector as people balik kampung. Lots of PRs leaving SG and Chinese / Taiwanese / HK / Malaysian tourists mostly stay away.

well if its no...then somehow/someone/something is making the exchange rates to go up/down...so that's just my observation for the past few years

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Added on July 22, 2011, 4:56 pmWell...it will start dropping way way before......like a few months month CNY....so unless you're saying these mfg sectors/buyers/sellers starts slowing down their order a few months....still isnt the reason....but whatever reason...i know when is the best time to buy/sell SGD....that's just my 2cents

This post has been edited by tailtwist: Jul 22 2011, 04:56 PM

as long it moving up

http://www.exchange-rates.org/history/MYR/SGD/T

min = 2.3694 (January, 23)
avg = 2.4207
max = 2.4822 (July, 12)

wow we in the period of all time high hehe , change now or wait hmm
guts feeling will hit 2.5 soon

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Added on July 22, 2011, 5:30 pmpity those coming now need to buy at all time high also

This post has been edited by ivanswk: Jul 22 2011, 05:30 PM

Work in SG 1 month = 3 months salary in MY.

If you can save lotsa money then can invest back in MY.

yes....every dollar u save here in spore...its close to 2.5x back in Malaysia

bump it ..

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Added on July 22, 2011, 5:58 pmhehe both u got it rite so




This post has been edited by ivanswk: Jul 22 2011, 05:58 PM

u sure boh ??? 3months?
now rate is 2.4 only leh...
house rental also so high

Almost la from my last job in Malaysia.

Anyway, even if it's not what I said, it's still not small timers like you and I moving the needle.