Well, I'm fine.
Try telling that to the anal Makiddo who attacked me for no reason whatsoever.
Don't know what he's so anal about? Like my working hours are his god damn concern!

This post has been edited by mercury8400: Nov 27 2012, 11:34 PM

1. I told him. yes. NOT YOU. I did not tell you. But you feel the need to interfere. Why?

2. Where in my comments did i ask him not to seek further clarification? Kindly point out. I did not say those things. You did. again why?

3. I did not twist any facts. I certainly did not say i have a pathetic working life. You did. Why is it your concern, i still don't know. If you do not want to be like me, that's your problem. Calling me a moron and putting words in my mouth is NOT. It becomes a personal attack and like anyone being attacked I will strike back.

Seriously the more you talk, the more moronic you sound.
What you stated is a personal attack from the start and it continues.
But rest assured I will not back down. I never did.
Idiots like you should really see the light.
And what is this judging from all your previous post?
You keep track of all my previous post? Am I that important to you?
Or do you agree with my previous post and was still anal about it?
For Christ sake, move on. Get a life. If your life revolves around keeping scores of what people said, i feel for you.
You're just pathetic.
And you clearly shown that here, for all to see

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Added on November 28, 2012, 12:16 amCalling someone a moron and twisting facts is not an exchange of opinion, its a personal attack.
Uncalled for and moronic is what you are.
Worst of all is keeping count of all the "previous post".
Seriously get a life, you pathetic little bugger.

This post has been edited by mercury8400: Nov 28 2012, 12:17 AM

Wow! Now you say i don't have life? You staling me or smtg? If yes, then you might have stalked the wrong person. Coz the last i checked, you were the ones keeping score of what everyone says in lowyatnet? No? I gave a reply to some forumer -again I stress NOT to YOU - and you feel the need to call my working hours "Pathetic"? I did not even comPlain about my working hours but somehow you seemed pissed about my pathetic working hours. Where is the logic in that? Why is my working hours your concern? And then you go on to claim smtg about my previous post? You keep track pf what everbody says? You have a scorecard? Seriously you need to get a new hobby man. And now it seems like you know me? You spend your free time stalking people in lowyatnet? If that is not pathetic i don't know what is!

Why is it hard to work in Big 4 especially in SG?
They are perpetually hiring.
Last I heard from my intern, they hired everyone who applied in his class.
I think its KPMG.
Neway auditors are in short supply in SG.
I always thought those Big 4 would grab as many as they possibly can get their hands on since the turnover rate is quite high.
Unless, of course, your petty with this and that.

Wait a minute...
Aren't you the one who said that your current company has a going concern and might bankrupt soon and you don't want to stick around for that to happen?
Aren't you the one who said that its difficult finding another job?

The Big 4 will be a good choice then.
As long as you're willing to work in teams that have crappy bosses, long hours and no one else wants to join, I don't foresee a reason that they would not want to hire you.

Afterall, you don't have much of a choice and at least a Big 4 on your CV looks better than trying to explain the unemployment gap in your CV

Not really.
Managers also depends on the company and team.
My ex is also a manager for one of the big 4 and she works crazy hours too.
She believes in leading by example, something I don't believe in.

Of course lar.
You're foreigner leh.
By the same token you think its easy for bangla fresh grad to get an entree level job in Malaysia or not?

Why cautiously optimistic?
PM Lee has already stated that the influx of foreigners will be stemmed and companies will just have to learn to live with the current labour population in SG.
Care to share smtg you know but we don't?

looking on the bright side, you won't be the only one....many more will join you. Lol!

Prepare to squeeze into the MRT or bus (unless you drive), prepare to be bored to death if you don't want to leave the island and prepare to line up everywhere you go (be it for food, pay bills, etc). Sometimes quite sickening. But I'm not complaining.

No lor. That is not the general view of ft freshie from malaysia. They think they can just waltz into any org and demand this and that like in malaysia without realising that they are he foreigner.

Its not a good news even for 1st property self-stay HDB pruchase for PR coz of the 5% additional buyers stamp duty lor(previously no such rule).
This effectively means that if you buy a S$500k HDB, you pay on top of the additional COV, an additional S$25k for the additional stamp duty.
This makes it out of reach for many PRs

Must provision some amount for income tax.
It is not deducted from yr salary.

Hey! Same here.
I dread clocking in to work at 9-6 esp when i'm at age 40-45.
Not that i have a problem (or dislike) with my work but I just don't see myself clocking in the office while having to withstand superiors yelling at me at age 40-45. I'll probably think i'm too old for that
When I'm 40-45, hopefully I'll have enough savings and passive income to sustain my lifestyle and I'll probably do something at my own leisurely time like property sales agent or something where nobody's going to yell at you and you don't have a fixed timing. Sounds great!

This post has been edited by mercury8400: Jan 20 2013, 01:00 PM

Ya!
That is precisely my plan!
That's why I'm slaving hard now.

For me I wish to have just 1 condo in SG (can't afford 2) fully paid off which will yield me something like S$3-4K nett per month which is something like RM7-10k.
Then there's 2 properties in Malaysia fully paid-off, one I live in and another one rented out at RM 3k per month nett which would conservatively give me total rental income of something like RM10k per month.
Plus stock investment (i only invest in high yielding REITS or dividend counter) which would give me some extra money like RM 1-2k per month. On a nett-nett basis I'm taking home something like RM11k - 12k which would be enough to maintain my lifestyle. Besides I will still work as a property agent or sometjing like that which will give me some potential upside as well.

Life will be great!

This post has been edited by mercury8400: Jan 20 2013, 03:41 PM

While the table serves as a guide, one must also take into consideration the tax rates, cost of living, and other misc cost including emotional cost like being away from your family.

I will definately send my children to malaysian school if given the choice.
I think malaysia education for us nons are better than SG, if you can manage your kids well.
The things i learn in m'sia is alot more than sg in terms of survival and real life applicable skills and mental preparation for the future mostly on the mentality side

like how we, the nons, fare and compete even though the playing field is not level. Like how despite being discriminated against, spat at and chew up, we still emerge better by working harder.
like how we, the nons, are taught in the hard way that the world is unfair, uncaring, racist and cold. The only way to survive and be come up is to have a siege mentality and hardwork.
like how we take everything anyone says with a pinch of salt and suspicion and we, unlike our sg counterpart, are not easily duped be it by the gov or other people.

I think you're missing the point.
Nobody is disputing the quality of subject curriculum in SG.
It is afterall one of the best in the region.
What i'm saying is apart from subject curriculum, the students in SG fare badly in things like soft skills, street smarts, innovativeness and resourcefulness. I also realise SG students have very limited ability to improvise in a certain situation, skills which malaysian nons pick up outside class room.

Afterall i strongly feel that non class room soft skills like those i mentioned are more important than formal technical education in the working world. I mean you can teach those things like technical proficiency but you cannot teach some one to be street smart, resourcefulness, innovativeness etc. those you pick up through your situation and surrounding

Nah, realistically I don't think that is do-able.
I believe it wayang only.
Firstly I don't think SG has the infrastructure in place to cope with 7 million people.
Secondly, PAP knows the general, very strong ill feeling of Singaporeans towards foreigners. The Punggol by-election is a wake up call for them.
Thridly Singapore cannot create that many jobs for both foreigners and singaporeans. And if that happens, the ill feelings of Singaporeans towards foreigners will be intensified

No.
1. far from fostering cohesion among the different races in SG, the influx of foreigners in SG has stoked the anger, fear and discontent of Singaporeans towards foreigners creating a "us vs them" mentality. Foreigners are blamed for a host of issues including stealing jobs from locals to acting brutish in public.
2. You forget that majority 8 million odd people don't live in new york. A large portion of them live in neighbouring New Jersey but work in New York. There is a difference. Majority of Singaporeans don't/can't/won't live in Johor and work in Singapore