Thanks for offering to help.
But i am a Mechanical Engineer.

So are you working in C&S consulting firm?

I thought they have high demand in th ICT?

Mechanical can call Ir. jitshiong for advise.

Ya I working in C&S consulting firm. You? Tough life huh as engineer in SG .

Engineering consultant where also tough life i guess.
Ya, M&E consultants here too.
With IR already dont want to practise in msia ah?

I was wondering how long it would take to drive from JB to your workplace in SG everyday. I have been monitoring Google Maps traffic for a while now to get a feel for it and it seems the travel by car from JB town to eastern part of the island would take about 60-70 minutes one-way between 8-10am and 5-7pm almost every week day. The bridge crossing itself would take about 20 minutes.

Is the estimation generally correct? I took a drive few weeks earlier and it seems to have confirmed it.

Btw, I'll be starting in SG in July and I look forward to be part of the "family".

Causeway crossing on average takes 30 min driving in the morning. Evening rush is worse.

Give yourself 1.5 - 2 hours buffer when driving to work. Say work at 9am, come out at 7am

JB masuk Singapore on causeway during morning rush hour 20-30min? Really? Honest question, I would have assumed it would take super long.

Perfect. Field advise is always the best. Thanks!

dont worry, SG wont be the only country affected, the effect will be region-wide.
so, are you gonna stop dreaming landing a fresh grad job in the region now?

If driving it is not as bad as you think.

If motorbike or bus takes longer

I stay in an old hdb. So, here's the thing - whenever I go home late - like 10+pm, I can see cockroaches beside the drains. Just be the first glance the one or two drains have more than 10 cockroaches. Even on shaded corridors with lights on you can see racing cockroaches, clearly not afraid of human. I guess that's the reason some of the first floor families have cats.

Is this a normal thing in old hdb? Or can I report to some institute for pest control?

Ps. I really really cannot tahan these creatures. Not even with them within my eyesight.

difficult la.... i wont be going to apply every single possible job full of hope and glimmer anymore la... just apply only lorrr, if got get then good lor

with the current crisis , what do you guys think of the currency now ?
maybe its time to move some back to malaysia already ?

You sure M'sia doing much better?

You are just speculating on this. Even the best economist can't advise you on this

Best financial arrangement for me is to stay put and only transfer when you have the need to use the money in MY, such as buy house, settle PTPTN loan - regardless of what the currency exchange like at that time

I transfer big sum of money back more than a year ago thinking by putting it in MY Bank FD the high interest can earn more. Then I realize by NOT moving any of those money back i can earn more through increasing SGD to MYR conversion

That was what my mum asked me to do a year back before the sudden drop in MYR.

Then after the drop I told her... See... Luckily I never transfer. Else even the interest give 10% also not enough cover.

report to town council. they failed to do their job.

Malaysiaaa have no idea what jibby gonna do next also
but there's meeting today deciding Arab there gonna control the oil production or not right. guess that gonna affect us also

yea somehow true also.
cant really predict much and I'm just speculating.
though of transfer bit out to pay off some ptptn also.
any idea ptptn if one shot pay few k, compared to monthly pay. any difference in the interest we get ?