thanks for your reply.
1.  hopefully can get into audit firm, small firm is fine. wonder if you can advice if my expected salary would be around 1.8k-2k with 2.5 cgpa. tx

2. i hope smaller firms wont have huge workloads like the larger firms...don't mind work until 9 or 10pm...it'd be off-peak  hrs..maybe travelling back to JB wont be too hassling / take shorter time?? so, what time i need to be in CIQ? if i hv to start work at 830am?? tx

look forward to hear from u again

thanks a million

Yes, i get my approve from MOM , long waited 6 days , so next step is find hr?

  Date of Application : 03/07/2012
  Pass Type : EMPLOYMENT PASS
  Pass Category : Q1
  Status : Approved

i hv no choice, sg rooms very expensive.. hv to suffer for the 1st 2 or 3 months ....hopefully dont hv to work until 10pm...if so no choice!!plus even i can cabut at 6pm, i might go for dinner and hang out until 8 or 9pm just to avoid the traffic..
can wake up 6am++?? i think maybe i need to be at the checkpoint at 530am already..since if my working place could be  at the central region...approx. 2 hrs ++ travelling...

wonder if i stay at second link there? is it called TUAS?? less traffic there? kindly advice

Thanks a lot!!!

If it's anything like the Big4, the working hours will not be uniform each and every day. Some days, you might need to leave the client's office at Shenton Way (down south) after 10pm. In that case, there's practically no chance for you to take public transport across the entire island to Woodlands etc and still be in time to take a bus across the causeway. If that happens, what are you going to do? Bunk for the night with a colleague? You're basically up shit creek without a paddle.

If you're taking public transport - living in JB and working in SG only works if you have very steady work hours and locations ie. you know exactly what time you need to be exactly where.

The other option... get a motorcycle and bike in every day. Then you have all the flexibility you need, except when it rains. Clients don't appreciate wet auditors... trust me. I assume you can't afford a car.

To answer your question about timing... I used to take the overnight bus to Sg from Ipoh. I will reach SG at about 4:30-5:30am depending on the driver's balls. First bus from Woodlands CIQ to MRT is at 6:15am. Get into a train to Orchard Rd at 6:40am. Reach Orchard at 7:10am. Reach office at 7:20am. Takes about 1hr:5minutes. Add 5-10minutes for every bus/train you miss and have to wait for the next one. And when it's peak hour... you might not get into the first arriving bus or train.

your colleagues able to get a job that provides transportation...hope mine could hv such perks...i heard some of my friends...if work too late, cab fare can be claimed...wonder if they can cover the cab fare all the way back to JB-larkin
TUAS area seems abit complicated, i guess?
i think there are several stops at singapore that offers bus services all-the-way back to JB-Larkin?? like at the Queen st.??maybe i dont hv to stuck at the CIQ if i able get those services??

thks for advice..
TQ

Nope, don't have corp plan so at own expense, am searching for a budget one.
Starhub Green.  Got it!  We've got our accomodation already which has wifi but am still looking for broadband as the work site doesn't have internet for 'visitors'.

Thanks!!

Oh, then what are my options if i need internet on the go?  Thethering via my mobile phone?  Please and thank you

erm, i 1month ago already retake with white background with passport size in msia photo shop, just wonder the passport size standard both of msia and Singapore is same?

wonder if the train checkpoint near to the bus checkpoint?? i assume all at the same checkpoint - Woodlands CIQ. then i can walk to the bus checkpoint and back to larkin.
thanks for advice further.

You mean stay near JB custom area? if there nearby got room, i'm more interested. Thanks for info

Guys, After MOM approve the EP, is it has any deadline? Cause i still waiting my company arrange Medical checkup for me

done a phone interview yesterday and they said my "expected salary" too high. oops 

No yet, cause i work in JB due to programming job , when need to do medical checkup, i just go take the IPA   

If few month then no problem already, i try to ask them first

when i first came to sg, I didnt know singaproean cant speak malay cause their national anthem was in malay! Only found out when I was having lunch with my new singaporean colleague when I casually use some malay words in my conversation. They couldnt understand me, then only did I know they dont speak Malay. Even malays here speak English.
Just last month, I went to Punggol point for a walk,  pretty popular fishing spot. I saw a few funny looking trap, and asked them what was it (in English), then they mentioned crab. The malay boy jokingly mentioned to his other friend "budak ni tak pernah tengok perangkap ketam".
Then I took a pic of it and replied "Boleh ker? Ni boleh tangkap ketam? Ada ketam kat sini?". The boys looked at each other and started laughing cause I speak malay! Before I left, I told them, "I orang Malaysia la"

Co-broke means, tenant hv to pay commission (half month) to agent (agent represent yourself astenant) and landlord will pay half to his. Note that in Sg, agent not suppose to act for both parties. They can only take commission from one party.
blood test (HIV test to be exact), & lungs.

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.

Nope...if no agent...then no need to pay agent fees....welcome co-broke doesn't means cannot be direct tenant/owner mah....

Yes, you are right. I thought he meant for tenant. if mentioned "Already co-broke". But Co-Broke to tenant doesnt it also mean, commission is payable?

well, for example a landlord engage an agent, let's call him Agent A. then this agent go and pakat with his friend (also agent, called Agent B). Agent B then goes and lists the property on some website somewhere and he says "sorry agents, already co-broke" on the listing.

now enter you as the prospective tenant. If you see the listing, you call up Agent B, then if the deal goes through, Agent B will represent you and Agent A will represent the landlord.

or let's say that you lazy to do your own searching, and you engage an agent (agent C) to help you search. This Agent C will not even consider this property at all, because Agents A and B have already agreed to co-broke the deal together.

On the other hand, if the listing says "co-broke welcome," then it's a different scenario. In this case, Agent A has not made any exclusive arrangement with any other agent, so Agents B and C (and D, E, F ... Z) are all welcome to bring their prospective tenants to deal.

http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/em-asia-f...-070254796.html

expects the Singapore dollar to stay around 2.51 versus

the ringgit by the end of the year, although it may head to 2.55

before that.

is me again, already 4 month working here....
but recently a lot of policy from sg government restrict FT/FW/PR.

Previously i plan to get the PR, but now PR like no use already....
erm.....is it the right time back 2 malaysia?
Since anwar confident that take over the malaysia......??

I should come 2 sg few years back but not now...it seems i had make a mistake

HDB steps up enforcement against PR Subletting Under regulations which take effect on Wednesday, Housing Board flat owners who are permanent residents will no longer be able to sublet their flats for an indefinite period of time.

Presently, flat owners who are Singapore citizens and permanent residents are allowed to sublet their flat after the minimum occupancy period. The approval is granted for a maximum of three years per application, and owners can apply to renew the period of subletting upon the expiry of each three-year period, said a Housing Board spokesman on Wednesday morning. There is also no cap on the number of renewals and the total period of subletting, he added.

Under the revised rule, permanent residents will only be allowed to sublet their flat if they have not done so before. The approval will be granted for a year only, instead of three years. Upon expiry of the one-year period, the application to extend the approval will be assessed on a case-by-case basis and approval will be granted only if there are extenuating reasons, said the spokesman.

The total period of subletting during the flat owners' entire duration of the flat ownership will be capped at five years.

change some for Xmas, by Nov change some for next year CNY.

what's next?

1SGD = 1 L of RON97 (@RM2.60) ?