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  1. Hi bros any recommend that where can i go repair or replacement my car charger? Best if east side i try to search here at the Singapore No. 1 Car Forum & Car Club - MyCarForum > Motor Directory > All Merchants and call most of the workshops but no one do this kind of repair or replacement...
  2. Hi, Guys Might get a job offer in an American Company as Sales Engineer. Never worked for an American Company before, so hope that you guys could share your experiences working for an American Company....... Thanks in advance
  3. Working at amk ave3 near caltax park where?
  4. Hi all, I starting this thread to let other drivers know and be aware of other vehicles spotted on the road with either only 1 or no(zero) brake light working. These vehicle can easily cause accident to the driver behind. I spotted a silver taxi, SHD1310H, on sunday morning. It had no working brake lights at all. I followed it 2 junctions and videoed it. Video as from my youtube on it.
  5. Anyone here has experience and can advise the monthly living expenses excluding housing and utilities? Factor in say a movie every week and maybe a drink or two over the weekend. Thanks in advance.
  6. sadly i am in the 18% :( MORE than 82 per cent of people working in Singapore received a salary increase in 2011, according to a global survey of 3,200 professionals conducted by Robert Walters. Results from the survey reveal that 40 per cent of those surveyed received a pay rise of between 1 to 5 per cent, 20 per cent received between 6 and 10 per cent, 14 per cent received between 11 and 20 per cent and 8 per cent received more than 21 per cent. Says Andrea Ross, managing director at Robert Walters Singapore and Malaysia: 'After coming off such a strong year of economic growth in 2010 in Singapore, it was not surprising that the salary levels increased across all sectors. The large increases in 2011 predominately came from the non-financial services industry, as salaries within the financial services sector had a sharp increase last year (2010).' She adds: 'Another factor contributing to the increase in salaries at the start of the year would be an added focus of companies in trying to retain their top talent by providing competitive remuneration.' The survey also reveals that, globally, economies in Asia saw the highest pay rises - 45 per cent of respondents from China, 26 per cent of respondents in Thailand, 24 per cent of respondents in Malaysia, 22 per cent of respondents in Singapore and 21 per cent of respondents received salary increases greater than or equal to 10 per cent. Comparatively, a large proportion of professionals in western nations reported receiving no pay rise at all during 2011 - 65 per cent in Ireland, 49 per cent in New Zealand, 39 per cent in Belgium and 35 per cent in Australia.
  7. heard a few of my frens been retrenched lately... I thot economy picking up? Got one fren been terminated w/o notice and only compensate a mth pay... No reason given....told him to get lawyer advice if can claim more as he's been working there for more than 7yrs....sadly loyalty don't count nowadays ya.... That's y we must go for upgrading if not when come this situation very difficult to find another job as age so old like after 40yrs old...who wana employ u...right? Anyone gone to engaged a lawyer and managed to get fair compensation for being terminated without valid reasons?
  8. They looking like very suar Khoo talking loudly with the funny mandarin and fashen sens also bad...
  9. I will never forget May 23 , 2011.. It was my lucky day.. I was my 3rd time spotting one while going to JB (2nd Link).. And I must say , damn pretty.. :wub: can't remember her name but she was like 20's... I purposely asked her a few stupid questions like " Must I insert my cashcard?" and "Is it packed at the other customs?" Her voice was.. [thumbsup] Any bros with similar experience?
  10. anyone working in oil & gas (i.e. schlumberger, FMC, Cameron, baker hughes)? is the work stressful? hope someone working inside can shed some advice..thanks.
  11. Hi All Bro & Sis, Anyone working in Ascendas @the Galen? Would like to know so info before I accept their offer like? 1) How is their working culture? In terms of human management 2) What is their working hours? Need to stay back late everyday? Cause need to pick kid from child care centre late kena fine. 3) Is there any transport provided? 4) Is the work there stressful? 5) Any other info e.g lots of FT? Please feel free to add any info that you have. Reason cause I am now mid age crises liao so quite worry I will make the wrong move Thanks
  12. Bros n Sis of the MCF - I need your urgent help!!!! I have an offer to work in a Jap MNC for an accounts position. As I have not worked for the japs before, I am seeking opinions of whether it is easy to fit in the jap working culture in terms of: 1. Working hours - work very late? 2. Start time - must arrive earlier than start time? 3. Clean and well groomed always? ANy other things u want to warn me about? Please let me know!!!!
  13. dear Bro & Sis, Ytd night, after work, on headlight, found very dim, checked & found that only dimmer is working, main headlights are not... Tried to on high beam also cannot, but flash high beam ok.... Beside go to mechanics for a check later on, any one came across such problem? Need Bro & Sis expertise & knowledge for advises... Car Make: Yr'05 Altis. Headlight: Stock 1, not mod.. Battery condition: Just change Aug'10, still in good condition (Checked). Alternator: just change Aug'10 due to rolling sound.. Thanks in advance....
  14. hi, anyone have any experience of why this is happening? wanted to find out more before i go workshop and got chop chop.
  15. very nice listen to the niose it makes http://www.streetfire.net/video/working-mi...ter_2186625.htm
  16. I was behind this very slow altis along simei ave when I decided to overtake her. I took a short glance and realized she's on the phone with someone. Traffic light turned amber and I slowed to a halt. Maybe she was distracted, she kept going towards the lights at a snail space and beat the red light. AMAZINGLY, the cameras didn't take her offence.
  17. Top Print Edition Stories Published June 25, 2010 All that money, but bankers get the blues By SIOW LI SEN (SINGAPORE) Bankers, poor things, do suffer real pain despite being paid big bucks. 'We provide counselling services anonymously.' - SGX chief financial officer Seck Wai Kwong It seems they get confused over how much is enough. And even when they are able to eat the best and shop till they drop, depression can't be kept at bay, said one speaker at yesterday's annual Institute of Banking and Finance conference. The theme of the conference was leadership and talent issues. 'All the bankers I know want to retire at 40,' said Adrian Furnham, professor of psychology, University College London. But then they like it so much, they push it to 50, said Prof Furnham. He was answering a question from Piyush Gupta, DBS chief executive on money as incentive. For many, the question of how much money is needed to retire is not so straightforward. He cited friends who have retired and become clinically depressed because they have lost their focus in life and have no friends, said Prof Furnham. It's not only bankers but lawyers too who find that their children do not want to follow in their parents' footsteps as they dislike their stressful lives. Money is a great driver but it is not enough, he said. 'It's like a dinner of meringues - leaves you unsatisfied, or shopping when depressed. And it doesn't work in the long term.' At the Singapore Exchange (SGX), looking after the mental health of staff is as important as providing recreational activities, said Seck Wai Kwong, SGX chief financial officer. 'We provide counselling services anonymously,' he said. The mental health of staff needs to be looked after as the organisation has a high performance culture, he said. The SGX has provided two rooms for counselling and appointments are made anonymously; as a supervisor, he does not know who is making use of the service, said Mr Seck. He said that talent management at the SGX starts at the top. SGX chairman JY Pillay makes it a point to take the latest recruits to lunch as a way of keeping his pulse on the organisation, he said. The financial services industry continues to be highly attractive in Singapore, hiring almost 170,000 people, said Ong Chong Tee, Monetary Authority of Singapore deputy managing director. 'According to the Hudson's Employment Outlook Survey for Q2 2010, Singapore's financial sector currently has the highest hiring expectations,' said Mr Ong in a keynote address at the conference. 'Already, Singapore's financial sector employment level at almost 170,000 has exceeded pre-crisis highs and 1Q this year continued to see strong employment growth.'
  18. There was a time when I looked at the period, when one turns 55 and he/she can hope to see the better part of the days, with his/her remaining time to spend leisurely, for the last part of their lives. Then somewhere in the 1990s, it seems that the number has changed to somewhere close to 60. Come to the year 2000+ and the number has gone to somewhere 62 and then maybe to to 65. It does not take a genius to guess why the number keep going up, with seemingly no hope for the average Joe to 'rest his legs' and enjoy the last remaining part of his life. It seems obvious, that someone has taken the better and larger part of his money, saved by Joe in his earlier years, meant for his retirement and used it in whatever way, except for Joe himself in his old age. Did Joe, thru of his 20 to 30+ years of working, see any increase to his personal wealth? Or did he get any healthier to be able to live longer? The answer would be a definite ..NO! Well, what Joe did realised for sure, is that he had to pay more and more, just to be able to live modestly from year to year. Which probably accounts for where his own money saved by himself, apart from those that were taken away from him, had gone to. Which was to counter the ever rising cost of living and seemingly nothing much left for himself in the end. The question must obviously turn to ...where did the money Joe had to stash up by law, have gone to? It seems that all the infrastruture around him, from the gleaming public trains and stations to the high skyscrapers and expensive looking hospitals and many other things Joe gets to see everyday and read everday in the local news but provide nothing for him in his time of need, when he is in his 60s. And with the constant public propaganda that has been going around, since Joe left his last job when he was in his 60s, urging him to go on working, just to be able to feed himself, when he had already expended all his energy thru the 30+ years of his working life and have nothing more to give but shaky legs with constant aches. Did Joe know that this would be how he would end up? Eithier, hoping that his grown up children are filial enough and let him have the better part of his days or else what could he have done to avoid being in such a state? it was a time when Joe was in his prime when such issue seemingly was never a concern for him. It did dawn upon him and got him uneasy when he was close to his 50s but everything in his life from the money he was supoosed to have, in his retirement fund for his retirement, to his dream of a easy life, was never a decision that he was ever in control of, let alone to be allowed to ask for his 'old age' money, that was really his to be returned to him. Why did Joe ever allow such things to happen to him? Or was Joe to be blamed too?
  19. When I stepped on the brakes, I can see the rear brake lights come on but not the third brake light. Can I safely conclude that it's the bulb that has blown? Thanks.
  20. Based on today's news, they are working to ease the shortage. Before they use the excuse of increasing season parking fees, I would like to reprint the following article from 2002 when they increased the fees by 11-20%, and also to remind HDB that there are some motorists with good memories with regards to such increases HDB carpark operations are profitable Business Times May 28, 2002 SINGAPORE BY Lee Han Shih CONTRARY to popular belief, the Housing and Development Board does not lose money on its carparks. In fact, it is making good profits out of them. HDB, which houses 85 per cent of Singaporeans, is also the nation's biggest carpark operator. As a rough guide, it builds three parking lots for every four flats in its estates. It now manages more than 640,000 car, motorcycle and lorry lots. Operationally, these are highly profitable. In financial year 2000-01, HDB made $87.1 million from its carparks - half of that 'contributed' by motorists' parking fines. The year after, profit eased to $80 million. Yet, despite these figures, HDB carparks are officially losing money. Early this month, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan told Parliament the carparks lost $99 million in financial year 2000-01 and $105 million in FY2001-02. To reduce these losses, HDB has no option but to raise parking charges by 11 to 20 per cent come September, the minister told fellow MPs. Mr Mah bears the brunt of a rising storm of protest over the rate hike. But some have rallied around him. Among them was Wee Kiat Sia, head of HDB's carpark section. In a letter to the Straits Times, Mr Wee said: 'The HDB residential carparks are heavily subsidised as current charges are way below the cost of providing these carparks.' So are HDB carparks a money spinner or money loser? It depends on how you tally up the cost. Costs for projects such as carparks, MRT lines and power stations come on two levels: developmental (money spent to build them and to service loans) and operational (money spent running them). Operationally, HDB carparks are profitable. But when interest payments are included, they plunge into the red. HDB borrowed perhaps $4 billion from the government to buy state land and to build carparks. Servicing these loans is the single biggest expenditure item for HDB carparks - and the reason they are in the red. When the carparks suffered a $83.6 million deficit in FY 1999-2000, interest paid to the government was $175.1 million. In FY 2000-01, the deficit was $99 million and the interest payment $186.1 million. Taking away cost of interest, the carparks are immediately profitable: $91.5 million in 1999-2000 and $87.1 million in 2000-01. When Mr Mah and Mr Wee talk about deficits and the need to raise rates, they include both developmental and operational costs in their computations. This is not always the case with government projects. Take the MRT, for instance. The cost is split into two: MRT Corporation (now part of the Land Transport Authority) carries all developmental expenses, including interest payments; while SMRT runs the rail system. This allows SMRT to show a profit and go for a listing. If SMRT were to bear both developmental and operational costs, it would run at a loss, there would be no IPO - and fares would have to be raised sharply to cover its deficit. Can the same approach be applied to HDB carparks? If the government shoulders the building cost, the carparks will be profitable and there will be no need to hoist parking fees. But it is not fair for the government to subsidise motorists at the expense of those who take public transport, Mr Mah told Parliament. This leaves HDB with the full responsibility of running the carparks and making ends meet. Even if one accepts this, there are other solutions apart from raising parking charges. Why, for example, is it still paying the government 4.5 per cent interest when it can refinance its loans at better rates? At 3.75 per cent, its interest cost would be cut by $31 million a year - the exact same amount it would get from the parking rate increase. Thus, a simple refinancing of its loans would do away with the need for the unpopular rate hike. But a bigger issue is land cost. HDB may have overpaid for the land it bought for the carparks. Hence the deficit every year. When a private landlord overpays, he lives with the losses, as it would be suicidal to try to pass the cost to customers. (If, say, Ngee Ann City upped its parking fees to $10 an hour, motorists would take their cars and their business to Paragon and Mandarin Hotel.) As a monopoly, HDB has the luxury of being able to raise rates and make them stick. Car owners in housing estates may complain, but they have no other place to park. So they have been made to pay for HDB's mistake. From this perspective, Mr Mah is not wrong to say there is subsidy for HDB carparks. It is just that the subsidising has been passed from the government to hapless motorists.
  21. Will be starting work in JB(factory, don't know which area yet) so just wondering if anybody is working inside? Have to travel in/out everyday so I guess the only consolation is saving on petrol but it's reimburse anyway. BTW I do my fuel run weekly in JB so am familiar around JB town area. Company not going to provide hp bill calling back singapore besides work related. Any idea what's the best choice(cheapest) to get connected to my ones and kakis? Anyone thing else I should take note off?
  22. hi, anyone have any experience of why this is happening? wanted to find out more before i go workshop and got chop chop.
  23. I just wonder if its worth repairing ABS for old cars and how much would it cost to diagnose/repair? Cause my ABS is not working. I found out when I was braking for the turn at the junction. I made a mistake by braking and turning at the same time (I know I shouldn't do that). The speed wasn't high (around 50 only) then wheels lock up and I slide wide. I release brakes and car stops sliding. As I step on the brake again, the wheels again locks up and I slide again. Is my ABS faulty or is it simply due to issues like ABS function but couldn't react properly due to the rain? Btw, my is already a 17yrs old car and its a Toyota, thus ABS might not be that advance.
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