I thought your brother was studying here. Can't you bunk with him for a while until you find a place to rent?

Should be OK. The O&G thread is 2760 already.

It used to be you have to declare if you repatriate overseas income back to Malaysia. But if I remember correctly, they've change the tax laws to do away with that requirement. No tax, no need to declare.

You still have to declare under Bank Negara's foreign remittances regulations however, but I think that's only for sums above RM100K.

This post has been edited by seantang: May 15 2009, 09:52 AM

Jurong is almost like another country to me... it takes so long to get there.

This post has been edited by seantang: May 16 2009, 01:30 PM

True. Both Malaysia and Singapore only allow you to hold one citizenship ie. you have to give up your Malaysian citizenship. So unless you are running for Sg politics, want to become a senior civil servant or trying to avoid being extradited back to Malaysia - I don't see any need to become a Sg citizen.

Yes they do. Poor choice of words on my part... should have used deported.

As far as I can tell, the only real advantage citizens have over PRs in terms of subsidies, is the baby bonus which is for kids born to a citizen parent only. HDB housing grants are available to citizens and PRs too as long as they are married. Medical subsidies are slightly different between citizens and PRs, but if your pay is halfway decent, it's not going to be much to begin with anyway since they do means testing.

Anyway, to me, travel visas are just too trivial and will not factor into my decision to change citizenship.

Personally for me, I will only give up Malaysian citizenship if the racial and religious discrimination does not get better soon.

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Added on May 17, 2009, 10:05 pm
Got some idea.

This post has been edited by seantang: May 17 2009, 10:08 PM

Mature male ah?... <buttoning up shirt and combing hair>...

Anyone looking to buy a flat or a condo during this downturn? From what I gather from my "old hand" colleagues - this situation is shaping up to be the best time in 15 years to pick something up. A lot of property companies have bought en bloc and land banks at peak prices in the last year or so. They will have to build and sell quickly (ie. cheaply) in order to liquidate that land bank or else they'll die paying interest on the loans if the land just sits there doing nothing. Got a lot of projects going to complete soon as well.

This post has been edited by seantang: May 18 2009, 06:23 PM

I agree that there is no country where there is no racial or religious discrimination.

But since the fall of South Africa's Apartheid regime, there is only ONE country in the entire whole, wide world which has racism and religious discrimination institutionalised into it's constitution, it's laws, it's govt, it's official policies and practices.

You bring up Singapore... true, there is no non-Chinese PM but that's a reflection of political power structure. Nowhere in the constitution of the country does it say that a non-Chinese cannot be PM. For sure, the Chinese dominated voters will not be voting a non-Chinese into power in this lifetime, but that is the ballot box talking - not institutionalised discrimination. In the unlikely event that the party that wins the election nominates a non-Chinese to be PM, NOBODY can stop him from becoming the prime minister.

In Perak, where DAP was voted in as the party with the largest number of seats in the ruling coalition during the 13th General Election - a Chinese MB was rejected because there was apparently a clause in the Perak constitution that said a non-Muslim cannot be MB.

In Singapore, you do well in the exam, you get a place in Uni in the course that your results entitles you to. If you happen to be non-Chinese, so be it. NOBODY can stop you from getting your rightful place in the uni except yourself (ie. your poor results).

In Malaysia, you can do well, but there is still a maximum quota for non-Malays in places overall, and in places in top courses. There is also a minimum quota for matriculation entries into unis. Matriculation only offers a low percentage to non-Malays. Top matriculation schools are all boarding schools (eg. MCKK) and all boarding schools are effectively bumi only.

Only in Malaysia, does different races pay different prices for exactly the same house. Those are bumi discounts. In Singapore there is allocation of HDB units for different races to ensure that all races mix, but nobody gets a discount that other people won't get equally.

There's so many other examples,.. but I'm too tired to write.

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Added on May 18, 2009, 8:39 pm
Your friend actually said you're like some apek called Hew Chik Man, isit? You heard wrongly only...


This post has been edited by seantang: May 18 2009, 08:39 PM

Here's something that I just read. Only 30% of scholarships in Malaysia are given for merit OR for the underprivileged.

The other 70% is entirely racial, non-transparent and completely arbitrary.

When the PSD Director can tell the press that scholarship decisions are based "not only" on academic results but also on extra-curricular activities, the interview and "other social considerations"... can it be anything but arbitrary?

How the maths comes about? Well, it comes from comparing the different contract lengths with different monthly fees + subsidised phone price + upfront fees vs no contract phone prices in Singapore and Malaysia.

Of course network dependent. Different networks offer different combinations of contract length, monthly fees and subsidised phone prices.

Your question is so specific that unless someone's actually been down that road before, it's hard to help you lah.

But honestly, it's nothing a quick phone call to ICA cannot solve. Besides, it's only 6 bucks.

What's the reason for a V3? There's no technical reason why this thread can't continue, is there?

And so?

If the moderators are not asking, why are you volunteering?