This thread is aliveee...

Shell is pretty good, their benefits are tremendous (like all-paid maternity expenses for your spouse).  I was once offered a contract position, the pay is like double of my current one, I was already happy but the guy kept saying, "the amount is not really good if you know the benefits of a regular employee here".

ExxonMobile is ok only lah, the pay between contract and regular not much difference.  But they do have a lot of holidays for you, if a public holiday falls on Saturday, you get Friday off.  The recent Deeparaya holidays, for instance, both Fridays and Mondays were declared holidays.