You're being silly and putting unnecessary pressure on yourself to go for the FIRST room you see. What if it's a borderline crappy room cos it's dirty smelly far whatever? You might feel like aiya just sign la otherwise I wasted my entire trip coming down here for nothing and then end up f*cking yourself for a year. Just come down when you start work and stay with a friend/relative/budget hotel/backpacker lodge for a couple weeks and then slowly comfortably look for a better room IMO.

I thought no duty free allowance between SG and MY? Or does that limitation only apply to West Malaysia?

http://www.customs.gov.sg/leftNav/trav/Dut...+GST+Relief.htm

Not possible. Prices depend on location, but nowadays even fringe areas 2 bedroom HDB already 2k plus. At your budget you can only rent a room.

http://www.standardchartered.com.sg/save/c...bonussaver.html

Typically people say EP should wait 1-2 years before applying.

The company needs to apply for a work pass with the ministry. if approved then only you can work in singapore. Those companies that say "Singaporean or PR only" don't want to go through this process of applying work pass for you.

The IPA has a validity. I believe (can't remember) it is 6 months. So from the date the ministry issue the IPA you have 6 months time to come to SG and do the formalities (fingerprint, etc) to get your IPA converted to an actual Work Pass.

Whether the company wanna wait 1 week or 1 month or 5 months for you is a separate matter between you and them.

Of course they can. Just like how Bill Gates is a college dropout yet earns way more than practically every other phd and masters holder. It's just a question of capability, as in are you an spm holder because you had some financial trouble or other factor that prevented you from furthering your studies? Or was it because you simply don't have the brain power to learn anything past spm?

Disheartened after 1 week? If you go through this thread, lots of people took months to get their first job offer.

Even if you do get charged 15% now (becos less than 183 days), after that once you work more than 6 months you can go see IRAS and reclassify yourself as resident and then they will calculate and refund back to you (but I dunno immediate refund or whether used as tax credit to offset your next filing or what).

without knowing what hospital you going to, impossible to suggest place. The hospitals you listed are scattered all throughout the island, like one north east corner one north corner one south corner, liddat the only place you can stay is central ...

still got pipu use traveller cheque nowadays one ah?

change to sgd in malaysia and bring over lor. if not enough then use your malaysia atm card withdraw in SG.

http://www.standardchartered.com.sg/save/c...bonussaver.html

1.88% interest best liao

dafug?!? where's the source on this?

time to renounce my PR and move to JB riao, non elite like me damn hard to save up the $200k I'd need to downpayment on a decent condo.

BTT is just theory, damn easy one, if you have been driving in Malaysia and converting and you can fail BTT that means your Malaysia license sure kopi one.


No clue, it doesn't specify. I hope one PR with 3 years enough liao otherwise I have to wait even longer


for entry level condo actually not really that much difference geh ... new launch get the developer to 'absorb' the absd, and don't have COV


for west malaysian cannot withdraw until 50 ... but anyway PR for me is just to qualify to buy HDB mah. if not allowed to buy HDB and gonna move to JB then i might as well don't continue contributing to CPF

Won't be taxed.

btw Congrats Toughnut!

I PM you my SG agent phone number, you can whatsapp her I guess. Also Prudential one. Whether she is good or not I dunno, is just cos she is my childhood friend so now become my agent lol.

Just out of curiosity, what sort of salary range are you looking to pay?

tayhaithian scitzo are melaka boys