Thought you are acca member and some world medalist? Should be no problem for professional and world top. Know one case approved after 1 month working here.

Not souring you la. Just saying some cases I know of. Member of professional bodies has some weightage. The form has some area to fill in your professional body and achievement right? If no use they won't put inside the form. If really desperate you can put from primary school to date.

See, his wife not in SG no job here also approved...

My BF only 1.8k when he started working in engineering field. So worry about my future that time

How to buy house to get married with that kind of salary? How to make more babies for government? Should tell my future daughter no engineering BF please.

I think the figures on the low side. Last time I see the pay is not like that.

He don't want switch. Stubborn guy. Job diversification, if financial tsunami one of us still have job to feed (maggi to) the other one.

Not necessary must scrap the car. Can keep at your home as decoration, just can not drive on the streets. The car still belong to you. You can export it back to Malaysia, do some paper work and become a registered Malaysian car. Driving an illegal car then good luck when you bang other people on the road.

My car COE expired 1-2 years ago, can renew the COE with lower rate call prevailing quota something PQP, no need to bid for new one. If want new car then have to bid, old car got few options depend on what you want. The car agent will do all these for you just pay money can already.

This post has been edited by Fiona Chin: May 29 2013, 01:29 PM

The government is seeing that rule to help those people who intend to settle down in SG to get a HDB. If not the price will go up more with more demand in the market.

You want to fight over the house with your family members until become enemies if they suddenly turn against you because of a HDB flat? If me I will only pass it to my children or parents, then only husband and siblings.

This tip sounds very familiar hehehe...

Never written a single Chinese word for my working life. Unless you are targeting Malaysian Chinese client, better speak English to the Chinese and Taiwanese. Your slang is different. The client is always right, so my Chinese is consider market Chinese to them.

Those are the good life people that can afford both the time and money for that bowl of ramen. They are not kiasu, they call it good life. Most of us here don't have either one, too busy working whole day for peanuts. Have to cook dinner everyday after tiring day to save some sgd than eating out at restaurant.

This post has been edited by Fiona Chin: Jun 5 2013, 12:58 PM

No people will find a parking and go 7-11... Put signal at the road side, go down and buy and come back before the officer come. SG cars always stop at the road side even its a main road with just a signal to wait for people, post a mail or buy something really fast.

If double park then inconsiderate already, that one call selfish not human rights freedom. SG many many patterns have, got one time park at my gate, horn half an hour only come out from the house

Fame from overseas. The DTF xiao long in Taiwan is worth to queue for and saw Japanese tourists tapao boxes to bring back to Japan. SG DTF xiao long is like Penang Kuey Teow sold here, original taste all gone.

Try looking at the salary statistics published for your position but I won't believe the stats so much. There are some outliers of some friends' salary and myself that are not reflected.

Worth or not only you can decide based on your situation. Maybe give it a try if you don't have other commitment? 3K is not a lot but can have a good life in SG with some control of money spent I think. KL is so convenient, plenty of bus and cheap flights going KL at Friday night, and coming back on Sunday night or Monday early morning before work. I go back often and don't feel like separated from my family. Work hard and buy a car then you will be enjoying the freedom of driving around. I think you can bring in your dog with some procedures, try check with AVA the authority that control the pets. Phsyco your friends and ask them come here then everything will be same like KL. I like SG because everything is based on your competency, from my study here to my working life, scholarship, results and promotions are based on how much effort you put in and not your race, religion and connections.

For someone who graduated here, I was quite curious why many fresh graduates will choose to come SG to work. If I am to leave my comfort zone and commitment like my family behind, I would have choose Australia compare to SG after staying and working in both places. Other place I will consider is UK or US.

For job relocation from MY to SG then no choice since tied to the same company.

I think the starting pay should not be the main issue for fresh graduates if you don't have financial burden. Have to consider exposures, opportunities, and future career. My BF and one of the forumers here I know accepted a below average pay in their field after graduating, 1.8k for my BF, both of them even lower than the poly graduates in the same field. But now they are promoted to associate director and partner of their company, big jump in salary with share profit.

I started off in MNC with above average pay in my industry, but still feel like nobody inside my company although in the mid level. My ex boss and seniors got retrenched in the previous sub prime crisis with just a letter in a typical happy working day and to pack all their stuff, escorted by security officers and leave immediately from office compound. Not a very secure job. The higher I go, the more worried I got.

This post has been edited by Fiona Chin: Jun 10 2013, 02:03 PM

As one of the hiring committee for my department, I have never ever put nationality or race into any weightage. One, I won't risk my job for some country man I don't even know. How they pass through audit check with bias selection I don't know. Two, I need some one with competent skill, not some one who have common home story so I can gossip with him during office hour. Three, most of us are here because of the unfair competition in our home country, so I won't practice that so others will suffer like us. I specifically told my HR not to select candidate based on nationality for my interview round. If most places practice like what you said, SG will be similar to MY in terms of development.

Hopefully the bank you saying is not my bank, and the hiring manager is not me lol. I was involved in the hiring rounds for my team recently. The process we go through are very tedious and all following the book from upstairs, 2-3 day course before I join the committee, those MOM rules, fairness in recruiting, psychology kind of thing.

There may be some black sheep you met or heard. But I has worked with very professional HR people. After all, they still have their boss to report to. I have my boss to report to, and he has the board to report to. And complains from people not getting the job stating whatever reasons (sometime targeting us for personal reason like what you mentioned - nationality) do come in, and we will be questioned by the audit team. They are not fun to deal with.

I prefer a safe environment more than space. I don't dare to walk or drive around KL alone, but walking down Merlion Park to MBS at 2-3am, no need to look over my shoulder now and then.

SG still has a lot of space, but come with a bigger price tag. Drive around those GCB and landed estate, a lot of empty plot still available. The estates feel like taman in MY.

Some hawker stall owners here also behave like that hehe, careful.

This post has been edited by Fiona Chin: Jun 11 2013, 01:21 PM

Something new. I don't know how your case is possible. But my sis-in-law asked JPJ recently, the law still same like the time I applied. Only can hold one driving license, have to cancel the other one. I remember they punch hole to my MY driving license when applying.

JPJ in my state. I can't remember the exact procedure when they punched the hole since it was more than one decade ago. I got the impression from the JPJ officer that the MY license must be cancel according to their Act. JPJ also issued a letter from their director saying that the MY license is cancel and return, to reactivate next time when I give up the SG license with a letter from LTA.

JPJ in Sabah. No standard procedure one...

Eh, so you need to pay two side for the driving license renewal?

So far never get any trouble from traffic police during road block. JPJ side should be ok since got the letter from them.

This post has been edited by Fiona Chin: Jun 19 2013, 09:26 AM

Ya free for PR .

Save time for unnecessary trouble. They cannot charge you one, maybe waste few hours of your time.

The haze got affect the flight schedule? Yesterday PSI should be 371? Today just hit 400, can't see the opposite block in my office, later tomorrow they cancel my flight back home

Flight took off in the morning, sky look very hazy, but luckily never affect the schedule. Home affected by haze also .

Back home already, need to teach baby to call auntie before he can call dad or mum hehe.

Change 1k sgd notes at home around 100 pieces maybe, fly to Changi in business class cabin better than TT if you have the time. They used to have 10k sgd notes, but very rare. Sometime still see it around. If you can find that then just bring the money in your wallet.

This post has been edited by Fiona Chin: Jun 22 2013, 05:11 PM