Nolah I think he means that many people who at first didn't have any work permit or PR/citizenship managed to get a SG company to offer them a job & help them apply WP/EP/whatever.

@newaisa I'd say 90% of us here in this thread fit that description.

cannot lah. the limit for visit pass is 60 days, then you have to leave for 30 days before coming back in. if you leave today and come back in today, the immigration ppl will write on your pass that you have like 15 days left to stay (assuming you been here exactly 1.5months)

you talking different story liao lah brother. all i'm saying is that retail players don't exchange money in sufficient volumes to influence FX rates. you're talking about profiteering moneychangers taking advantage of high demand to happily increase the FX rate spreads.

indirectly saying that we welcome his GF but not him so that we can even out the stats a bit?

The person i replied to said the FX rate will drop because lots of people sell SGD and buy MYR during CNY. I did not dispute his observations of the FX trend, I disputed his reasoning.

is this another one of your 'grey area' things? haha. i won't be buying singapore car anytime soon so i don't care, but the press release seems to apply to foreign vehicles regardless of nationality leh.

Wow @ the author of the article. He wanted to spin the story that way and just anyhow forced the interviews to suit his hypothesis.


Manager in Malaysia ... and Waiter in Australia. GEE I wonder why he found it 'more expensive' over there


Setting aside the fact that everyone knows gas prices in Malaysia are unnaturally low due to subsidy, the writer leaves out the gallon-litre conversion (1 gallon is 3.8litres), presumably to elicit a "omg usd3.70 vs rm1.90 so expensive?!?!?!?" reaction from readers who mostly won't be bothered to find out what the gallon-litre conversion rate is.

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Added on July 25, 2011, 11:43 pmanyway 2 more random zoo photos before bed!


Motherhood by shuigao25, on Flickr


Licking his Lips by shuigao25, on Flickr

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no company on earth will pay $8k to an intern and make him do photocopies and faxes.

I'm off to Perth tomorrow! A while ago I got 3rd place in this travel blogging contest by MAS/Yahoo! ... prize is a trip to perth and tokyo.

overall website for the winners is here ... http://my.custom.yahoo.com/imastravel/ ... and my personal posts are here ... http://my.custom.yahoo.com/imastravel/travellers-tantiming ... nothing yet though cos the #1 and #2 peeps already travelled but my first trip is tomorrow.

Signed up for SingTel unlimited data roaming ... $56 for 5 days which is reasonable imo.

where got such thing? my landlord apply to HDB to rent the entire unit to me, that time only got IPA, approved ah.

officially, landlords need to get hdb approval to rent out their hdb flats. and hdb will not approve if the tenant has no 'status.' for example if the tenant is on a visitor pass, how can he/she possibly sign a 1-year lease (cos within 30/60 days he/she gotta ciao liao).

my lease, actually signed 2 ppl lease from landlord (me+other). hdb in the end approved only me, cos I had IPA/EP, the 'other' at the time only visitor pass. so the agents had to re-do the lease and me + landlord had to re-sign.

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Added on July 31, 2011, 12:24 am
it's not always about the money mang. when i was searching for a place i thought quite long about renting a whole unit vs renting a room, in the end based on my privacy preferences, and since i can afford, so i rather spend extra to get an entire unit than to have to share with strangers.

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my starhub ... the other day i torrent at like 1.5MB/second leh.

@jurlique mobile broadband a bit tricky also, my singtel 3G (using iphone), when inside my hdb unit the signal is almost useless, can hardly access internet at all (although i'm 5mins walk from bedok town centre).

Taken from /k/ http://www.financetwitter.com/2011/06/top-...llionaires.html


So almost 1 in 6 households in SG are millionaires. Since there's like at least 20 of us in this thread, by the stats we should have 2 or 3 millionaires, faster identify yourself!

got my first PUB (electricity + water only), fuuuuuuuuuu $300+ mang. of that, $200 is deposit, so the actual usage is just slightly over $100, but ... all these little body blows to the wallet making my legs wobbly, lulz.

[edit] to be fair, Malaysian landlords also same what. when i was studying in Taylor's in KL, the room I rented the landlord didn't allow visitors at all. But I didn't think she was an as$ or anything, it was just simply a 'here are my terms, if you don't like them don't stay here.' OK what. I would only have a problem if she didn't say anything upfront, and then after move in only say this cannot that cannot.

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Guys, any of you know what is "Payee Branch Code?"

I need to pay rental soon. Landlady gave me her POSB bank account number, 9 digits. I'm trying to add this to my internet banking so that I don't need to actually queue up at an ATM. However my internet banking thing also requires a "Payee Branch Code" - my landlady has no idea what this is.

On the dropdown list I've got like dozens of possible choices, examples:

...
252 PAYMENT OPS(CHQ & GIRO)
016 PAYMENT OPS(REMITTANCE)
081 POSB
072 RAFFLES PLACE (72)
003 SHENTON WAY (03)
009 SHENTON WAY (09)
050 SHENTON WAY (50)
...

Google tells me "All POSB branches have the same branch code — 081. The actual branch is embedded in the 9-digit account number." so I'm thinking to choose 081. worst case scneario is that my funds transfer gets rejected, right?

within one full year, if you work or stay in SG for 183 days or more, then you will be taxed as a 'local.' Otherwise you are taxed as a foreigner i.e. 15% flat.

Malaysia side, the proper way to do it is get a CP-21 form from your company, then take that to LHDN and close off your tax file. Then u no need to worry to file anymore until you decide to move back to Malaysia.

Honestly I think it's just everyone overreacting. You know lah Malaysians super sensitive, everything also link back to race. My opinion is that the message of the ads was sincere, it's just the execution that they screwed up on.


I don't really remember what job offer you got, it's just an internship kind of thing right (that's why the TEP instead of EP)? At the risk of sounding like an as$hole, HR and the Hiring Manager might not really have much interest in vigorously pursuing your case with MOM ... since after all you're 'just an intern.'


What on earth are you babbling about. It's well known that SG has some of the lowest income taxes anywhere. If you hadn't decided to leave after only 3 months then you would have been taxed at resident rates also what. And the house deposit ... you signed a one year lease, didn't you? So you expect in this world that you can happily break contracts as and when you please without penalty?


try call up this guy Willy 9824 4469, he's the agent who handled my rental. we did all the formalities with IPA only, after got EP card then gave a copy to him/landlord to give HDB.

What I'm saying is that now that you've run into complications with your TEP, the company now needs to conside:, "do I really want to go through all the effort of vigorously following up with MOM just for an intern who I might not even convert to a permanent staff after 4 months."

I don't want to rain on your parade, but based on the company's actions thus far, isn't their answer to the above question quite obvious?

just to rephrase your question ... if you don't get a job, you need to vacate singapore from 16august to 16september.

you are asking what if you get a job offer today, and your work permit IPA is issued on 22august, whether (1) you are allowed to come in with the IPA on 22august, or (2) no matter what you gotta wait til 16september then only come back in.


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