I think is difficult to find a room just for a month unless u go through agent.

But when u go through agent, u need to pay 50% of your rent as agent fee which I see is not worth it as u r only staying for a month.

I see, do you have any suggestion on this? I am determined to get a job there.

My EP got approved in less than 48 hours. Will work in Defu this September.

How do you first move to Singapore? You had separate visit to Singapore and get a room first? or Stay in a hostel, working while looking for room?

The dilemma I have now, is that I start work on 19th of September. Haven't decide whether I should start renting on September, or only in October. Judging the location of my workplace, I probably get to walk to work if I stay in Hougang Avenue.

Currently I'm researching on the cheapest postpaid mobile phone and data plan too. The "incoming" phone rate is confusing me. I need to pay when other ppl call me? @@ LOL

Will frequently travel back KL most of the weekend, if not every weekend.

*edit: anyone play futsal in singapore?

My EP got approved in less than 48 hours. Will work in Defu this September.

How do you first move to Singapore? You had separate visit to Singapore and get a room first? or Stay in a hostel, working while looking for room?

The dilemma I have now, is that I start work on 19th of September. Haven't decide whether I should start renting on September, or only in October. Judging the location of my workplace, I probably get to walk to work if I stay in Hougang Avenue.

Currently I'm researching on the cheapest postpaid mobile phone and data plan too. The "incoming" phone rate is confusing me. I need to pay when other ppl call me? @@ LOL

Will frequently travel back KL most of the weekend, if not every weekend.

*edit: anyone play futsal in singapore?

best bet is stay in JB and get a Sg prepaid card. I doubt you could wrapped up everything in 1 month.

I thought postpaid should be free incoming.
Not that sure about receiving international calls.

depends on plan. my incoming call is not free coz my plan damn cheap. $19 per month, 100mins free, $100 SMS & 50gb of data.

I think is difficult to find a room just for a month unless u go through agent.

But when u go through agent, u need to pay 50% of your rent as agent fee which I see is not worth it as u r only staying for a month.

Will frequently travel back KL most of the weekend, if not every weekend.

*edit: anyone play futsal in singapore?

Oh, then incoming gets charged into the 100 minutes?
50GB for 19 per month, corporate plan?

Survey shows top earner getting $20,000; 2 in 3 graduates have found jobs

By Joanna Seow & Lin Zhaowei

ACCOUNTING graduate Clarence Lew will stride across the stage in his cap and gown to receive his honours degree scroll on Saturday, but he is already in a select club of fresh graduates earning close to a five-figure salary.

Offered a job as a sales analyst by a top-tier investment bank last December, the 23-year-old started work about five weeks ago, after his final examination at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

Mr Lew declined to give his exact salary, and said it is close to $10,000.

He said he had applied to at least 10 different banks and financial institutions last year, and picked his current employer because it was the first to make him an offer.

He is among a handful of high earners emerging from NTU's class of 2011, whose convocation ceremonies began yesterday and will go on until Saturday. The 9,066 students make up the largest graduating class in NTU's history.

Human resource specialists say that with the economy doing well now, companies must be quick on the draw to snag the brightest and most talented.

Some companies must be pulling in the cream of the crop by dangling attractive salary packages. A preliminary survey done by NTU on this graduating class found a number drawing salaries like Mr Lew's.

The highest earner is a business graduate who is now drawing $20,000 a month in the financial industry.

One graduate in computer engineering will be paid a starting salary of $10,000 as a software engineer.

Both declined to be named.

Some graduates have taken the route of becoming their own bosses.

Mr Lester Lin, 25, for example, started his own science tuition-and-enrichment business, Science Hub, three years ago, and now earns more than $12,000 a month as a co-owner of Science Hub and a major shareholder and director of Math & Science

Olympiad, another tuition-and-enrichment business.

NTU said it does not have data on the average starting salary of this year's graduates, nor figures on previous years' highest earners.

But, at stratospheric salaries or not, two-thirds of this crop of NTU graduates have already landed jobs, its survey found.

The National University of Singapore and Singapore Management University were unable to provide current figures for graduate starting pay; the results of this year's Graduate Employment Surveys are not ready yet.

Mr Josh Goh, assistant director of corporate services at recruitment firm The GMP Group, said fewer than 10 people here secure five-figure salaries fresh out of university every year.

He added that the labour market is now tight, especially in the finance, retail and engineering sectors.

Mr Lew believes soft skills and his personality won him the lucrative job.

'During the interview, they probably felt I was the right fit for the company and the team,' he said.

'We do a lot of relationship management, so soft skills and personality come into play, not just academic knowledge.'

His 12-hour workdays are not an issue. He said: 'I think it's reasonable for this industry. The work-life balance is fine.'

At yesterday's convocation ceremony, 369 doctorate, master's and bachelor's students from four schools and the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, an autonomous institute, received their scrolls.

Your talking about private lar.....if u can go for private means your rich already........most of the sporeans will normally get those HDB type....can roughly get a re-sale 2nd hand around SGD350k-500k

Non singaporean can go for HDB meh? If not, can only go for the private ones lo~ which are usually twice the HDB price.

the problem is if the agent is charging 50% of the rental fees, the owner also have to contribute 50% and if you only take one month, the owner only make half a month of the rental only and this will make it very unlikely to materialize. 

Can. SPR is not Singaporean, can buy resale HDB as a couple.

SPR is 90% sgrean haha.... still... need to marry someone to buy HDB

$8k per month for 16hrs days and weekend work is not too high actually. What surprised me is the 16hrs work, which is not allow under MOM, max allowable is only 12 hrs per day.

possible to have working adult who take the NTU course for fun, a CEO of a contruction company actualy enrolled in a diploma course just to know how things works on the ground (last week paper).

just got hired by some company... they are applying work permit for me... how long it takes for them to approve it? can be few days? 2 weeks? 1 month? i don have criminal or wrongdoing in my history.... and got 1st class degree in software engineer.

can get in a few days?? coz i cannot wait to start working

Yup, only can buy as a SPR couple.

i stucked in bus for 8 hours when i go bek to KL after 8.30am on Saturday... stucked between woodlands and malaysia checkpoint? izzit normal? is there any way to go bek? take bus to johor and find kl bus from there?