Just wondering.. do you guys drive Msia or spore registered car? with the sky rocketing COE, it seems much cheaper to maintain a msian car now if you're not PR.

There is this section in LTA's website saying that a work pass holder can drive in with a foreign vehicle but,

"the vehicle is kept or used outside Singapore for a total period of 6 hours or more everyday"

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

I did some rough calculation. Monthly installment for a B-seg car, say a Toyota Vios in SG could cost you around $1k (9 years tenure). But the same car in Msia will just costs RM900 (~SGD 363).

After factoring the costs for daily $20 VEP and causeway toll charges which are approximately (24 * 22 days) = $480. The total cost per month is $843. Still cheaper than getting a SG registered car. Besides the Msia car gets to save on petrol, insurance, road tax, HDB parking charges... and most importantly, you can still keep the car after 10 years

I'm planning to do so after my graduation since my house is in JB. No need to squeeze with others in MRT and bus

Kindly let me know if there are any other charges which I didn't factor in. Thanks!

This post has been edited by icycokes: Nov 23 2011, 10:26 PM

Yea it can be very time consuming to cross the border even though the distance is near. For me I think it's still ok to spend 2 hours daily in traveling. 1 hour go, 1 hour back. Not too bad la.. Many of our fellow country peole in KL travel like that also

SG is really one of the richest country in the world by looking at how the price of the COE gone up in recent years. Singaporeans are getting richer and richer, the demand for COE seems to be rising forever.

As long as I can afford, I won't be considering a car pool. Seantang has stated all the reasons well why car pooling is troublesome

Keen on getting a job with car allowance after my graduation from NUS later. Anyone knows what is the car allowance rate like for sales/marketing personnel in SG? My sis's company, an MNC in healthcare industry is offering SGD1200/month for their fresh grad sales staff.

Good points.

This post has been edited by icycokes: Nov 24 2011, 01:43 PM

Wow $4,500, no wonder there are damn lots of BMWs and Mercs around. Great! I'll work hard and try to get into those big companies like yours

3 hours? Awww.. What about 2nd link? I know we have to pay extra charges though. But I expect no congestion over there?

I won't know unless I get to feel how is it like to take home $30k per month Thanks for sharing! If not I'll never imagine a company will pay so much for their employees' car. This tiny island is simply amazing.

Taman Pelangi sounds nice. Rental there are cheap but with high crime rates Thanks for sharing! My home is at Kulai which they have built 1 highway to link to 2nd-link. The road has not opened yet, but I expect it will take around 30 mins to travel to 2nd-link if the traffic is smooth. Houses here used to be cheap but recently went up damn quite lot with the Iskandar Region developments

Well traveling by Causeway will costs around $25 as well. So it is $10 more to travel by 2nd-link. I'll pay if it can save time.

How do you define a decent job?

Student welcome?

Great! Count me in then 1 male student.

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Added on December 7, 2011, 12:16 amOh yea.. is there any dress code?

This post has been edited by icycokes: Dec 7 2011, 12:17 AM

Noted! Sent you my details

Yay... I can get to meet all the malaysian elites in SG!

Just to share my experience with Malaysia High Commision at Jervois Road.

I renewed my Malaysian passport 2 weeks ago and it was a breeze! I must say they are quite efficient, comparing to their counterparts back in Malaysia.

I arrived at 1120AM and collected my passport within the same day at 2PM. When I collect my passport, I found out that there are approximately 70 people in front of me in the queue line. But the queue moves very fast and I got my passport within 10 mins. So I would guess they need to process like 100 passports everyday? And they did it in 2 hours time!

Renewal fee is SGD 124. You can take ID photo there as well for SGD 6. ID photo taken in SG (Usually in white background) is not acceptable.

Make sure you arrive before their lunch break (12PM) to submit your application form or else your passport will be ready only on the next day.

Let me know if you need more details!

This post has been edited by icycokes: Feb 1 2012, 06:45 PM

No, I ate at a small Chinese eatery in Valley Point (which is also opposite of the SPC petrol kiosk) where they sell Bak Chor Mee for just $4.50. The taste like ewwww.. They put vinegar into the gravy which I found it a little disgusting.

Is that nice? If it is, I'll probably try that after 4.5 years lol!

This post has been edited by icycokes: Feb 1 2012, 07:16 PM