Let me rephrase. This is what you said:

"coz i have commitments and my fund might only let me survive around a week or so."

If you are so cash starved that you can only afford to stay in SG for a week, then effectively you have no choice. You will not find a job within a week, and even if you do, the process for issuing offer letter, applying EP, etc etc, can easily take another month. So during that time if you have no money, what are you going to eat?

too many variables. best is to go search for those salary guides and estimate for yourself.

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=Atta...post&id=2745213
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=Atta...post&id=2486651

MNC: junior manager pay.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17543356

Supposedly Singapore average pay according to BBC (no idea where they get their data from) is ~sgd3875/month.

I would think that they are underachievers or underpaid. That age bracket i.e. mid30's-40? There are a few in my department and I doubt any of them are pulling in less than 100k per annum.


I can understand your misgivings about "trusting" salary surveys, but short of coming into possession of a big MNC's HR salary data, what better source is there?

Robert Walters Salary Survey: http://content.yudu.com/A1vf6s/RobertWalte...urces/index.htm For my job function/title and experience, the figures are accurate.

Systems Analyst (5year exp): $80k-$100k.


For family a bit tight. Unless the whole family cram into one master room.

where got, I poorfag ok? Last year I only paid $1xxx in tax, you can calculate my poorfag income from that.


Depends on the definition of "average." According to Department of Statistics, average household income 2 years ago is $7.2k/month.



alaskanbunny both side also swing one

What sort of car allowance / travel reimbursements are you getting? "incl allowance of 1k" = your entire car/transport allowance? SG cars are damn expensive now. New Kia Cerato is about $88k, so assuming $8.8k downpayment, 5year loan = $1.5k per month, 10year loan = $900 per month. Then you gotta add in ERP (i.e. tolls), parking, maintenance, insurance, petrol, etc etc, easily spend $2k/mth on driving your car around.

(of course buying second hand car is cheaper lah)


Or I could be paying $1001 meaning earning 46k

Eh guys, renting out rooms for HDB flat when you yourself renting is allowed or not? hdb website seems to say that it's not allowed.

i.e. i rent entire flat from owner
i want to further sub-let out one of the bedrooms to another random person.

The agent is supposed to take care of formalities for you. He checks whether the landlord has the proper approvals from HDB (if applicable), he prepares the letter of intent, goes through the tenancy agreement and the moving in checklist and other documentation prepared by the landlord / landlord's agent to make sure no crazy one sided clauses, etc etc.

you think this thread is relocation agency ah? some more post during lunch hour when most people are out eating and expect within-the-hour response?

until last year your gf could apply for one year validity visit pass to look for work but sadly that scheme already scrapped by ministry of manpower, so she's limited to the 30-days social visit pass (limited to 60 days out of every 90).

how long have you two been going out? there's always the option of registering your marriage with ROM first so that she can come in long(er) term on a dependants' long term pass, then do your customary wedding later on.

the salon that i go cut my hair at, seems like more than half the hairdressers there are malaysian, i'm assuming that the salon would have applied WP for them, so there definitely is a possibility for your gf to find this kind of temp work. just note that non-degree holder WP normally gets the limitation by MOM that they not allowed to marry SC/SPR (otherwise their WP gets revoked and they get banned from entering SG for like 5 years or something)

i didn't know too until my friend was saying her brother had to move to vietnam cos his vietnamese WP wife got barred from entering SG.

some link for your reading pleasure http://forum.singaporeexpats.com/ftopic245...db5056fab8dfd2d

TEP? I heard about intership ppl normally getting TEP instead of a full-blown work permit

http://www.mom.gov.sg/foreign-manpower/pas...es/default.aspx

In any case, SG everything (except the Personalized EP) must be initiated by or sponsored by company one, you can't do it yourself. So you need to find the internship first, then the company will decide what kind of pass they wanna apply for you.

singkapo gaythering tered is here: http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1889740

my dad's car got stolen from the condo carpark a month ago leh (in KL).

yup, this Porsche Cayenne

Anywhere from a day to two weeks. Mine took two weeks (dunno why). My fiancee's took two days.

No idea. MOM doesn't tell why some people 1 day some people 2 weeks. Same case if they reject your application and/or appeal, they also won't give the reason and you just have to guess.

Personally I think that the agent my company engaged screwed up my application and didn't give enough info in the first place or something but like I said it's nothing more than suspicion.

if you *fully* move to SG i.e. you are employed by the SG entity and paid in SGD, no need to pay any tax to Malaysia.

survey yourself lor, go http://www.propertyguru.com.sg/ click "For Rent" --> Property Type "HDB" --> Max Price "$1000" --> search then you can see a general idea of room size / location / rental cost.

no benefit? without caller ID you won't know whether your mom or dad or friends or somebody you want to avoid is calling, no? then missed call you also won't know who called?

8 committed people a bit hard to get I think. We can barely get 8 people to join a BBQ gathering session planned months in advance lol.