When you go interviews in KL, do you get a 100% success rate? No, right? Do you then say "I wasted that 30 minute drive to KL to attend that interview?"

Same thing mah. If you're not willing to "waste that trip" then don't bother coming lor.

Only for Singaporean families lor ... aren't all of us here still holding Malaysian passport?

For your budget of $350 a month, you will pretty much have no choice but to share.

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can be 24 hours, can be 2 weeks, can be rejected then your company need to appeal

after approve you get IPA. come in start work get your HR to sign on the IPA, do medical check-up, make appointment, go submit all your documents then few days later get EP card.

http://www.ica.gov.sg/page.aspx?pageid=151

Well, according to the telco statistics, they say that only 10% of us use more than 2gb/month *shrug*

Some of these figures makes me go ...

Example Chief information officer/ Chief technology officer is listed as $7,000 as median salary. dafuq? 7k?

I don't get what you're trying to say. Are you saying that 7k is "highly paid?" For a CIO/CTO?

I meant why so low. $7k median for a CxO-level staff sounds wrong to me, especially since the same data, other management staff like IT service manager, Research and development manager, Software and applications manager, all earn more.

Wah one of the founding fathers (mothers?) is back in the thread

lol you should have come say Hi mah

actually i don't think there is any much good food around here. And some more the food court underneath my unit got fire a month+ ago and until now still haven't re-opened. so ... Han's got air con, not too expensive, even tho food sucks also hantam the chicken chop only lor.

supposedly bedok interchange got a few famous and nice hawker food but uhhh ... maybe if u got singaporean taste buds then ok lor.

Since you are here only short term, no point signing up for a postpaid contract. Just go with one of the prepaid cards like Starhub Green. Where are you staying while in SG? On such a short term thing I'm assuming your company is posting you here? Shouldn't the hotel/service apartment have wifi internet?

Assuming HR applied for you, they should give you the IPA (In Principal Approval) letter. With this letter you can enter Singapore (use that normal 30 day white card) and start work liao. When you're working you may need to do Medical Checkup, then get HR to sign your IPA, then schedule an appointment with EPSC (Employment Pass Service Centre) to do the fingerprinting and process your EP Card.

Enjoy your stay here!

when you enter singapore you get a 30days white card. by the end of this 30 days you need to do the medical checkup, get HR to sign your IPA, and complete your formalities at EPSC. photo taking, just turn up at EPSC 15 min early, next to the office got photo taking service if u no have your own photo

What I did in my 1st month in SG was use starhub green and then buy add-on data packages.

rates here http://www.starhub.com/support/mobile/faq/...lueprepaid.html

Main problem is that they don't give you any sms or notification when your package expires, so got few times I kena didn't notice my package expire then the pay-as-you-go pricing kicks in and owns my $$ balance.

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Added on July 9, 2012, 3:50 pm
get soft loan from parents and/or relatives to fund the deposit then return it to them later lor.

This post has been edited by deodorant: Jul 9 2012, 03:50 PM

1st post already list a rough estimate

I believe our very own JBKing fits this description. Not sure if it was 2012 or late 2011 though.

Errrr most countries make exemptions for tourists lah. Like Malaysians driving in SG, they drive with Malaysian license what. I've also rented (and drove) cars in Australia and UK using my Malaysian license.

Done. Well, 2nd post, still 1st page

Early on in your career, your bargaining power tends to be on the low side. The best way would be to find out what is the pay range for somebody in Singapore in your industry with your skills/experience, and use that as a guide.

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Added on July 11, 2012, 2:02 pm
My landlord is Malay auntie. I speak to her in BM also she automatically reply me in English hehe.

This post has been edited by deodorant: Jul 11 2012, 02:02 PM

not really leh. "Co broke" on a listing isn't really a message for the (prospective) tenant. It is a message to other agents that this particular listing already got tenant and landlord agents, so a "third" agent is not welcome.