I don't know about that. My company's a stickler for degrees... in that if you don't have a degree, you're a tech/admin no matter what your experience is. That means lower payscale, fewer benefits and absolutely no chance of becoming a manager (pay scale wise), although we have lots of tech/admin people leaders. In fact these guys lead the biggest teams ie. production workers, secretarial pool, CSRs, help desks etc.

Not exactly papers before experience lah. If you have a degree but no experience, you still will not become highly paid, nor a manager.

But rather, the belief is that degrees are so common nowadays. If there's a non-degree holder with this experience, there is surely a degree holder with the same experience. Why not simply hire the guy with both?

They forgot about opportunities. When I left KL, I already had nowhere to go ie. there was no finance job in my company in KL with a higher salary level than the one I was at. When I came to our SG office (with promotion some more), I was merely one of the many at this salary level. The biggest finance guy in SG was 6 levels above me. So the opportunities abound.

It's the same. You earn this money, you give back this amount of work.

I take Firefly back to Ipoh once or twice each month. I leave office for the airport at 1pm for the 2:50pm flight and am sucking down an iced white coffee at Sin Hing Loong in old town by 5:00pm.

When it started a couple of years ago, it was about RM380 return. When it became daily flights, it went up to RM440 or so. Now after becoming 2 flights per day, it's RM500-550. I usually book about 3-6 weeks in advance. I have paid RM800 for CNY flight.

Depends on the company. MNCs will do that depending on the candidates/urgency etc. Local companies will rarely do it, unless it's a pretty high level position that needs to be filled urgently.

We recently hired a tech service guy from East Malaysia... more than matched his salary in S$1 vs RM1; paid flight, hotel, expenses for a househunting trip to SG; then paid for the flight, expenses to officially move him and his stuff to SG; then put him up in Mandarin Orchard for a month while he finalised his accomodation. Even gave him 2 months signing bonus to help him set up in SG (to pay rental deposit, phone deposit, open bank account, buy white goods etc). But then, we specifically wanted someone who can service our customers in Indonesia, but who is either local Singaporean or Malaysian... not an Indonesian.

They follow the address in your IC or permit, no?

What exactly should we ask for in BM?

So, it's called "slip catatan lesen trafik"? I had asked for a "surat" to give to Sg traffic police to get Sg licence. And they came back (both times) saying that they needed to blacklist my licence.

I went to JPJ Ipoh.

I'm from Ipoh. I have voted in Ipoh Timur in every election since I came of age. My Ipohite compatriots and I have sacrificed everything from a decent tertiary education facility / university (TARC went to Kampar, held by BN, which had no facilities and no talent pool) to a working public transport system to regular trash collection. We've been practically decimated to a community of pensioners and retirees. Where young Ipohites are like Filipino maids and Indonesian workers... forced to journey afar in order to continue studying after SPM and thereafter make a living. Why? To put critical opposition members of parliament into office and send a clear statement to UMNO that the Chinese will bow to nobody. Besides taking a day off every 4 years to go back to vote, what have you done in comparison?

Pretty simple to do postal votes. But there's a very significant population of Malaysians living overseas, who 100% will not vote for the govt. In addition, many of them will vote in constituencies where BN is the weakest... ie. areas with high % of Chinese votes. So, absolutely no incentive for BN to have postal votes for the public.

As for overseas/pendalaman armed forces, civil servants and their families postal votes... most of the eligible voters in this category don't even see their voting slips. It's filled in, submitted on their behalf and sent to any constituency where BN needs more votes to tilt the count to their side.

You can get pretty good airflown sushi in SG, places like Kuriya for instance. But it's going to be expensive.

For ramen on the other hand, somehow it doesn't translate as well overseas. The anywhere, off-the-street, no pre-planning ramen I had in Japan beats the expensive ramen at Ippudo in Mandarin Gallery.

How much is it at Comex?

Malaysia is always cheaper off the shelf without plan, if you don't have a special deal/price in SG. I bought my SGSII in Ipoh for RM2099 when it was launched. SG was selling it for S$998.

Dunno... I'm used to Samsung's implementation of Android. I haven't seen the Evo 3D's screen, but the SGSII's Super Amoled Plus is pretty hard to beat. My iphone fanboy colleagues turn their iP4s face down at the lunch table. iP3s get put back into their pockets.

It's super light though... very easy in the pocket despite the huge screen.

With Android, it's typically an issue with the app rather than the firmware or hardware.

They have a few outlets. My colleagues usually go to the one at Great World City or Orchard Central.

Kuriya's Webpage

No idea.

This isn't sushi... but is what we never fail to order each time. Kinki or Japanese Rockfish. This kind of stuff I only eat if Ah Kung's paying.

Compare the screens side by side, if possible using the same media. Brightness is useful under the sun, but you'll almost never use it indoors as the battery life is atrocious. I go more for clarity and how pleasing it is to the eye. Google yielded: E!Gadget and Super Amoled Plus vs qHD.

In any case, you sound partial to the HTC. So get it lor, cause apart from the hardware, it's also the user experience. Let me know how you like it... my Starhub contract is due for renewal by the end of this year. I'm itching to know how 3D photos taken by twin cameras turn out.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 3 2011, 10:59 PM

The FAQ says it's a local warranty. But to be a locally warrantied set, it has to be obtained from Samsung Singapore. However, there's no logic why Samsung would give a much lower cost price to them, competing with the 3 telcos and their own exclusive dealers. Reading their trade in policy where they pay more for trade in sets which are still within the warranty period... my guess is that they refurbish trade in sets that are <1 year old and buy a warranty extension up to 1 year from Samsung when they sell it.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 4 2011, 10:31 AM

For both my Galaxy Tab (from Samsung Vivo) and SII (from Samsung Ipoh), there was no warranty card, but an instruction card to sms or email Samsung to receive a sms warranty confirmation on the imei.

If you're the sweaty type and you don't like it... go with taxi or car. The only exception is if there's a bus route that takes you door to door, and the bus stops are very, very near your flat and workplace. Even then, it could be a loooong trip. For instance the bus from my block in AMK to Heeren at Orchard Road fits the exception perfectly, but it's a 55 minute journey with 30 stops. So I take it very, very rarely... for eg. when I have some thinking to do and in a bus is as good a place as any.

But if you don't mind public transport, then simply buy a city map + bus guide, check which buses go to your workplace or nearest MRT (plus feeder bus) and then work your way out from there. I would choose a place that's along the required bus/mrt route (less than 20 minutes travel time - 10 bus stops or 10 MRT stations) and preferably with a nearby shopping center / supermarket / HDB hub (within 5 bus stops).

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 5 2011, 01:10 PM

Too expensive for whom?

Indeed I do.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 5 2011, 10:34 PM