u have to believe that as long as u keep moving forward, u will be better than others. This is what keep me going.

At 1st i'm so paiseh that I'm elder than my coursemates 4yrs during my college time. But i never give up. That's y i continue studied and completed my degree. My life is way better than the time i am only holding a stpm certificate. 

i regret i gave up IT and went for advertising instead. i really din expect myself to end up like this.

today i butthurt.

i butthurt whole day already but now i reach home i feel lagi butthurt.

now i doing hr&admin for 1.6k

so i am doing recruitment for my company now.

there's this singaporean guy, highest qualification is secondary school. one year younger than me. work as retail and then sales coordinator. and his pay is 1.8k

i super butthurt my degree is worthless. his experience i also have. my qualification is higher. but my pay is lower because i am foreigner.

i need to do something asap

/end of rant

  i seriously wanna cry now.

Any budget backpackers hotel to recommend around Novena????

u have to believe that as long as u keep moving forward, u will be better than others. This is what keep me going.

At 1st i'm so paiseh that I'm elder than my coursemates 4yrs during my college time. But i never give up. That's y i continue studied and completed my degree. My life is way better than the time i am only holding a stpm certificate. 

fyi, during my college life, my coursemates treat me as their big brother 

i regret i gave up IT and went for advertising instead. i really din expect myself to end up like this.

Keep comparing and it will never end.

did u manage to fish any mei meis? 
life is a journey... it is not the end yet    work hard and have fun    more goodies to look forward to 

guys, i wan to buy a desktop computer. Any recommend computer shop at sg??

yea, i like your "life is a journey" 

i know i am just a sushi chef now.. hopefully one day i can be like my idol    i believe in sg if u work hard u will make it.. 

now i just found out my coursemate going to do masters for 2 years at UM.

u dunno how i feel right now.

no only in sg... if u work hard, u will make it regardless where u are...

bro, u are a sushi chef ah? mind to share where r u working? 

you also can do part time before your mind start to deplete on whatever you have learnt in degree

if not because of my job requires to travel monthly, i would have done a part time master in engineering and attending weekends lectures.
because of the travelling uncertainty or ad-hoc, i only can do distance learning part time for now after nearly 9 years out from uni.

UTM and PG. How about you ? what is your field btw?

@hokin
@Yhoong
@Sean

Thanks for the insights guys, i'm a cooking kinda guy as when i lived in AUS i did alot of cooking it was just my way of life i don't think constant hawker food is healthy

I agree with the living like a foreign labor part, i'm coming here to SG for experience as well as to enjoy my life and coming home to a nice place at least is the bare minimum i need. So long as my room/toilet is clean i dont really mind the other area's of the place.

I've contacted a few agents fingers crossed i can get a condo at aljunid for 850.

I came up with a rough budget with my salary feed back would be great.

Rent/pub- $800-1k (RM350)

Phone-$50 (RM80)

Transport -$60 (RM150, depending on driving frequency)

food $20 p/day -$600 my thoughts here are i can eat fancy sometimes but just don't spend to much on other days to accommodate for the day i do spend a bit more on a meal out (RM600)

leisure (activities/gym/shopping/etc):$400 (RM500-1000)

Savings:$1k (Income - Expenses)

Thoughts? I plan for it to be like that generally and adjust as i live and see how much i would spend

but my pay is lower because i am foreigner.

All I see from your posts are complain complain complain complain. If you are so miserable here (I recall you felt "forced" to come to SG by your parents and it wasn't necessarily what you wanted to do) then pack up and go back home.

Having said that, perhaps you're just suffering from a little Quarter Life Crisis. You spent the last 5, 10, 15 sheltered years in school imagining what your working life would be, only to find out in the last few weeks that reality isn't as rosy as you hoped.

All I can say is welcome to the real world. All of us to some degree or other have felt what you feel. Heck, when I first started working I was SO SURE that I would be driving an RX8 after 3 years of working life. Now I'm entering into my 8th year and I can't really even afford a car.

is there any1 staying around bukit merah area here?

when someone is already having a 'victimized mindset', his/her doors are shut. Everything will be injusticed to them. From pay, race, religion, nationality and even family. You are absolutely right about packing up and leave.