Wah ! so many good comment.
-U are encourage to work in SG I should say.
-But dun spend too much money in SG itself.
-Convert the currency and spend when u return home.
-If u are looking for a new life, forget it.Small place,not many places to go.I remember my freinds tend to ask each other where to go weekend.Guess what their answer ? If not shopping ,then sentosa island.If shopping, for sure is orchard road.Imagine urself, go to timesquare every weekend exclude other place such as lot 10, Sg.wang,Petaling Street.etc. but just times-square.How do u feel ?
-Staying SG is good because feel very peaceful .Not like us here "mat rempit"as example for recently,20 persons with "parang" handam a wrong target (a group with 3 peoples drove a Mitsubishi car).
-The con is u cannot use EPF money until u are 55 years old.There is like 24% cut of ur salary.
-At first it was fun and full of excitement.However at the end, one might feel homesick.Because still ur homeland is bolehland with all the good freinds,family,family relatives,u will miss them so much.In just a few years u got boring for the life there.So,save the hard earn money by working hard there and make as much as possible for the few years,u will plan to come back to ur homeland.

Good luck to those who are going there soon.
Welcome back to those who are returning.

This post has been edited by Winfeel: Feb 23 2007, 01:47 AM

Only 2 compulsory conditions, u can withdraw the money from Singapore CPF ( Central Provident Fund )
[Malaysia is called EPF].

1.You have to wait until ur age reach 55 and you are no more going into SG again.
2.When one passed away.The fund can be claimed by his family or family relative but better to write down the beneficiary name first.If not, an original certificate of death is needed.

This post has been edited by Winfeel: Feb 24 2007, 01:34 AM

[quote=seantang,Feb 24 2007, 02:43 AM]
Only PRs and citizens contribute towards CPF. For foreigners, they can withdraw their CPF if they renounce their PR and leave Singapore permanently. I'm not sure if West Malaysians are still excluded from this.

Updated:

From: http://mycpf.cpf.gov.sg/Members/Gen-Info/Sch-Svc/S-and-S.htm

"You can also withdraw your CPF savings if you leave Singapore [b]and West Malaysia permanently or become permanently incapacitated."[/B]

As highlighted,to be frank with u, not many willing to have such situation happen to them.That means not many is willing to leave Sg (Our neighbour) permanently.

Okay, I just looked at my original letter from CPF Singapore.Please read carefully.

You are not eligible to withdraw your CPF savings as you do not satisfy ALL the conditions listed below :

[1] that you are a Malaysian citizen holding a Malaysian identity card ;

[2] that you have left Singapore permanently to reside in West Malaysia;

[3] that you are either :
(a) 55 years old or above; or
(b) below 55 years old but above 50 ,and have not worked in Singapore in the two years before your application; or
(C) physically or mentally incapacitated from ever continuing in any employment or is found to be of unsound mind;

[4] you do not hold a Singapore work permit.

Man, how do satisfy all these requirement ?

This post has been edited by Winfeel: Feb 24 2007, 01:32 PM