An recruitment agency Hudson released their Salary Information for 2010. This will serve as a helpful reference tool for you in your career search opportunities.
The comprehensive salary guide provides a detailed insight into salaries across the following ten disciplines:
If you (Singapore citizens) have recently entered Malaysia at least 4 times in a month, you can apply for a special MACS pass which allows clearance through either Woodlands or Tuas checkpoint without having to fill up the white immigration card.
With the Malaysia Automated Clearance System (MACS) pass – a sticker embedded with a Radio Frequency Identification chip that is stuck in the passport, you can zip through immigration clearance in Malaysia without worrying if their passport has been stamped. [click to continue…]
From 1 Feb 2010, flat owners who sub-let rooms in their HDB flats will have to register with HDB within 7 days of doing so.
They are also required to notify HDB when they renew or terminate the subletting of rooms, and when there are changes to their sub-tenants’ particulars. There is no need to seek prior approval for subletting of rooms. [click to continue…]
SEAB Singapore provides organisation information and major examination results online (PSLE, GCE N-level, O-Level, and A-Level).
The Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) was established on 1st April 2004 as a statutory board.
SEAB, formerly the Examinations Division of the Ministry of Education (MOE), was formed to develop and conduct national examinations in Singapore and to provide other examination and assessment services, locally as well as overseas.
SEAB will collaborate with MOE on all national examinations such as PSLE, GCE N-level, O-Level, and A-Level. It will also position itself to become a regional centre for testing and assessment services, and contribute to Singapore’s development as an Education Hub.
Remember the story of Steve trying to tell a man to calm down his noisy children on the subway?
It was a peaceful morning on the subway until a man and his children entered. The children started yelling but the man just sat down and closed his eyes, apparently oblivious.
Irritated, Steve said, “Sir, your children are disturbing everyone. Could you control them?” The man replied, “Oh, I should. We came from the hospital where their mother just died. I don’t know what to think, and I guess they don’t know how to handle it either.”
Immediately, Steve’s irritation vanished. “Oh, I’m so sorry. Can I help?”
This week, let’s remember to have open communication to help change they way we see the problem first, in order to effectively solve it.
Source/inspiration/more at: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
According to Straits Times, the report by the International Labor Organization put Singapore workers at the top of 13 economies in the group’s Global Wages Report for 2008-09.
A check with Singapore’s Manpower Ministry put working hours in Singapore at 45.9 hours a week for 2008 and for the first quarter of last year. In 2007, it was 46.3 hours.
Under the Employment Act, the limit on working hours is 44 hours a week or eight hours a day. Beyond this, workers are entitled to 1.5 times their hourly rate of pay.
The working hours do not include a tea break or lunchtime. This applies only to workmen earning less than $4,500, or other employees drawing less than $2,000 a month.
Paintball is a game and sport, in which players compete, in teams or individually, to eliminate opponents by hitting them with pellets containing paint (referred to as a paintball) from a special paintball gun called a paintball marker.
Paintball is great for relieving stress while promoting team work in a fun and interactive atmosphere. Leaders will emerge through practical application of strategic planning. Team spirit and friendships build as the season progresses . The tension and pressure of everyday life is forgotten as the participants slip into their fantasy world.
Depending on the venue, paintball games are played on either indoor or outdoor fields of varying size. A game field is scattered with natural or artificial terrain, which players use for strategic play. Check out the paintball games providers in Singapore. [click to continue…]
Local people in Singapore call coffee “kopi”, and tea “teh”.
Singapore Local Coffee or Kopi
Kopi, coffee
Kopi-gau, coffee (strong brew – “gau” is “厚” in Hokkien)
Kopi-po, coffee (weak brew – “po” is “薄” in Hokkien)
Kopi-C, coffee with evaporated milk
Kopi-C-kosong, coffee with evaporated milk and no sugar (‘kosong” means empty in Malay)
Kopi-O, coffee with sugar only
Kopi-O-kosong, coffee without sugar or milk
Kopi-O-kosong-gau, a strong brew of coffee without sugar or milk
Kopi-bing or Kopi-ice, coffee with milk, sugar and ice
Kopi-xiu-dai, coffee with less sugar
Kopi-gah-dai, coffee with extra sweetened milk
Singapore Tea or Teh
Teh, tea with milk and sugar
Teh-C, tea with evaporated milk
Teh-C-kosong, tea with evaporated milk and no sugar
Teh-O, tea with sugar only
Teh-O-kosong, plain tea without milk or sugar
Teh tarik, the Malay tea described above
Teh-halia, tea with ginger water
Teh-bing, tea with ice, also known as Teh-ice
Teh-xiu-dai, tea with less sugar
Teh-gah-dai, tea with extra sweetened milk
Drinks example lke the above list could be extra ordered adding more ice or more sugar or milk. For example, one can add the “bing”(Ice in mandarin) suffix to form other variations such as Teh-C-bing (tea with evaporated milk with ice) which is a popular drink considering Singapore’s warm weather. See also Ordering at a coffee shop.
These names are indicative of the multi-racial society in Singapore as they are formed by words from different languages, and have become part of the lexicon of Singlish. For example, teh is the Malay word for tea which itself originated from Hokkien, bing is the Hokkien word for ice, kosong is the Malay word for zero to indicate no sugar, and C refers to Carnation, a brand of evaporated milk.
HDB is launching two new BTO projects today, Limbang Green in Choa Chu Kang and Buangkok Vale in Hougang, offering a total of 1,291 standard flats.
The flat supply comprises 276 units of Studio Apartments, 128 units of 2-room, 241 units of 3-room and 646 units of 4-room flats. 95% of the 2-, 3- and 4-room flats will be set aside for First-Timers. [click to continue…]
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An recruitment agency Hudson released their Salary Information for 2010. This will serve as a helpful reference tool for you in your career search opportunities.
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