Anyone can tell me why SG food is so sucks...???

Hi guys,

I will start work at SG in November and need some advice. My office is located at Jurong Island. Is mit more economical to rent at Nusajaya and drive my car there every day? Office starts at 8 am so what time do I need to leave for work?

i will go to IBP (International Business Park) nxt month for training. may I know any cheap hotel nearby? 
I'm planning to stay at fragrance hotel oceanview or waterfront

Thanks!

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Added on September 18, 2012, 7:24 pm

I pay the training myself.
that's why i need a cheap hotel.
any other hotels better than fragrance hotel?
the hotel is near to training center. maybe just need 15 mins by taxi.

tq!

Well its a good option, but before I can invest in properties I need other form of investments to build capital for getting properties... haha

hi guys,

i recently got offer to work in SG as IT support. they offered SD$2500 + SD$500 allowance.
my current salary in MY is RM$3800. do you guys think if the offer is too low? is it worth doing?
hope someone can offer me some advice/ insights.

thanks.

Includes friday night drinks lar
Also I said most days, not every single day lar.
If every single day i eat economy rice, i think i will die.

My salary is above 2k. Looks like I have no protection at all.

So it seems that under Singapore law, it's okay if the contract signed is for working 24 hours and 7 days a week. As in for those above 2k. Looks like most employees would not have any protection at all.

Actually I am not really complaining about working
more hours. I just want to check whether my contract breached the employment law. If it does I will have the upper hand.

Normally most companies would give a standard working hours unlike mine. And if they wan u to overtime, they will use bonus or warnings for poor performance. My company is kinda odd. They nvr ask me to overtime beyond my working hours anyway.

Opening Citibank account doesn't require initial deposit.

You have to maintain at least $2k monthly in your bank account to avoid surcharge

I open my Citibank account with $0 initial deposit

Seems like Firstcoach is the most popular coach for SG<->KL...

How about starHub 3G coverage? Their iPhone plan is cheaper.
I tried singTel, the coverage is ok...but speed is quite slow sometime.

1 more thing I like about Firstcoach is every alternate row you get a power outlet to charge your devices... thou seems like now there are more buses comes with power outlet at every row.
Haha so envy you all staying in KL, quite convenient to travel back to KL. I'm staying Penang to my only mean of travel is by flight.

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Added on December 6, 2012, 11:00 pm
Just check, is Starhub's 3G network really bad? I used Starhub 3G on prepaid previously and its kind of bad (about 2 years ago). So I signed Singtel postpaid instead. Now thinking to switch to M1 after my contract with Singtel due. How is M1's 3G or LTE connection?

Quite convenient for Ipoh too. With Firefly, I can go door to door from my office in Orchard to my house in Ipoh Gdn within 3.5 - 4 hours.

Just wanted to share the JPJ extract experience.

I went to request for the letter at Penang (my hometown) JPJ. Paid RM10 for it, and was told that I will be black-listed, however the black list will only last for 2 months, after that we can request any JPJ to "buka black list", and will be able to renew our Malaysian License as usual.

Not sure how true it is (the Buka Black list part). Anybody tried?

Mind to explain what does JPJ extract means?

sigh.... i miss working in SG the money....

Actually, food courts below the HDB apartments offer cheap food priced at SGD 3/4/5, which are stil ledible if u ask me.

I'm turning 30 soon, still I've decided to go to SG.

I've turned 30 this year already....still in SG for now....

More problems ahead?

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporesc...-063411977.html

I wonder if it will materialize like some ppl have mentioned that to accomodate to workforce strikes, business will have to increase prices due to the strikes.

Actually I pity those WP foreign workers who're exploit by employer here in Singapore. All of us were having the same dream to earn a comfortable living in Singapore yet some of them were sent back home empty handed, being owed months of salary, and slept at inhumane space for months.

Hi..May i know which are the bigger software company/mnc in sg? Thanks..

If only malaysians would accept the jobs that are being offered to the PRC's. Highly unlikely for msians to take over prc workforce since we have become more "discerning" when it comes to employement in sg, you need not look further than in this forum.

True, the agents for the most part exploit their own countrymen, but the trend from what i heard is the potential employer is getting a cut of the agents fee since the agent there is competition between foreign agents to secure work for their workers, so they strike a deal with the potential employer to get a cut of the agent fee, usually around 10-30 of fee paid by the poor sap to the agent with the tacit knowledge that the agent can rely on the particular employer to use the agents "services". This sort of thing mainly affects SME manpower companies.

Yes it is a crime, but a crime which is not enforced is no better then not having the law in the first place.

http://publichouse.sg/categories/topstory/...led-this-worker

then again u got no kid yet so 
my pay was awesome until my kid come along, then it just become average, need car and whole house to cater and allowance for childcare
but then again my kid make my life more awesome thou 

What does smell have to do with them?

at the moment, one

Haha, you could chalk that upto their "diet". But then again anybody who toils in the hot sun and sweats would have bad BO. Plus dont they usually have company transport which is usually at the back of a truck?

The cane is not as bad as that malaysian step dad who practically "b**** slap" his step son which the mother recorded. Another alternative to purchasing a cane can either be a belt or a phone book.

Some companies aren't sensitive towards their worker's.

Are you guys happy?

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/21/world/as...appy/index.html

x2.5

sure we are happy whenever we come back to happyland to spend our money

But no hope getting gf/bf there....  my friend studying in NUS said the Singaporean guys only wants to get into her pants and not relationship.... the guy think they are jackpot.  PRC are sniping them...