Working in Singapore

Well since i have so many questions about how to work in Singapore…
I’ll compile them here and share what i can answer.

Q: What do i need to prepare to work in Singapore?
A: First thing first, willing. There is a proverb says ‘Where there is a will, there is a way’.

If you have a will to work, i believe you can find your own way.

Hahaha…
Don’t worry, since i have decided to write this post, I’ll help you a bit.

Well you need to prepare:
* passport
* money
* resumes
* laptop.

You will need laptop to access internet, don’t worry you don’t need to subscribe internet, you just need to go to public place then you can surf for free. just bring your laptop then turn on your wireless.

Living cost in Singapore… (monthly)
* rent : $400 single room no air cond, $500 single room with air cond
* PUB (public utilities bill, water and electricity) :$50
* meal $10/day : $310
* transportation: $100
* telephone: $ 40
* others: $100

Total: $1000/month

Q: Any risk?
A: Of course.

Basically if you come to Singapore, you will have 30 days social visit pass, a legal pass to stay in Singapore. After that you need to extend your social visit pass if you cannot get any job during that period. And as i heard you can only extend online once. which is means you get 60 days to get the job. if not you need to go back to Indonesia.

Since you need to stay at least 2 months in Singapore, you need to bring at least SGD 2000, with you.

After going back to Indonesia (worst case) you can go back to Singapore, but i think a bit difficult.
They will ask a lot of questions.

If you can get the job within that period, you don’t need to worry. Because your company will help you apply for work permit or employment pass, a legal pass to stay and working in singapore. without that you are an illegal worker.

Q: How to get the job?
A: Got jobsdb, jobstreet for what? u go there and browse yourself la, or you can buy newspaper every wednesday and saturday, not necessary must that day, but on that day there will be a lot of vacancies posting in newspaper.

Q: How much is the range for the salary?
A: Go jobsdb and see yourself. Each job has a different salary range.

Q: How to find a room to stay?
A: Go to google and google it! Don’t know the address? Click here..

Q: Any other way?
A: Yes, go apply LPR (Landed Permanent Resident). I can say this is the best way if you are not a risk taker. LPR is a permit to stay in Singapore for 6mths to 1 year in order to find job.
Once you get the job, you can be a Singapore PR. This is the best way because you have a long time to find a job, you can take your time, no need to worry about not getting a job in certain period.

Q: How to apply LPR?
A: go to this website.

Q: Can you help find a job for me?
A: i’m sorry, i’m not a working agency, i believe you can try yourself to find your own job.

Is it better to love someone or to be loved by someone?

Of course the best is to love each other.to be loved by someone we love too..
But if i only can choose between that option, i’ll choose to be loved by someone more than i love him.
To me it’s tiring to love someone that doesn’t love me. It is difficult to change people. And it’s easier to change ourself.

So if someone loves me so much, although i don’t love him that much, i’ll still prefer him compare to someone i love so much that he doesn’t love me that much.
To change my self to grow my love to that person is easier than to change someone to love me more.

Last time i fight hard for love, to love someone that doesn’t love me that much, hope that he will love me more, but in the end i always fail to change him.
It’s is better if i have someone that loves me much, then i’ll learn to love him more.

Pagoda Street

Hyaaa! Today i went to Chinatown.

Pagoda street…

First time go there during CNY season . Well i like the decoration!
a long the way @ Pagoda Street there are a lot lot lot of snacks, CNY stuffs, food, souvenirs!
Well i like to see snacks stall

i love this… although i don’t really like sweet stuff.
i like this shop.. so redd!
Well i like to go and browse around, but never buy anything. i feel like it’s useless for me. :p
Then i continue walking….
i find this shop selling stack of sakura…
actually very nice sakura?
i dunno what to call it, especially the left one.. the green one like snake.
i thought that one is bamboo… curly bamboo…
Then then.. i find this….
Dunno wat to call it also. if you water it every day, it can grow hair (grass) :p
Actually i intend to buy one, but i remember i lazy leh.. later never water it then cannot grow hair. haiz. so i just give it a miss. :p
i like this photo, looks like somewhere in china, with old building.

Well, actually my purpose go to chinatown is to buy souvenirs for my mum’s friends and my friends. I bought a lot of keychain and magnet, 7 for $10. Actually i still want to bargain, but okay lah dun want to bargain, hungry that time, no energy to bargain.
In the end i buy 21 keychains + 4 magnets! Btw so many keychains mostly is for my mum’s friends. She got 17 friends! then just left few only for my friends. :p

Actually i take a lot of photos, then suddenly… memory full! I need to delete some not nice photos. So only left few photos that i can post them here

Will go to chinatown another day.. maybe next week to buy some stuffs.

Spamming emails

Sometimes when i check my Email, i received so many emails that are forwarded by friends. Some are meaningful and i never read before, some are just spam.
Well spam, because it asked you to continue to forward to n friends of yours, if you never do it, it will curse you!

Oh may! some of the content i like i’ll forward (if i have time to fwd, usually i won’t, coz lazy) then i’ll remove that cursing part.

Some of them like to send HOAX. Emails that the content is not true, and the sender also not sure it is true or not but keep forwarding that HOAX.
You maybe familiar with the title like: Friendster is closing down, forward or your account will be deleted, Please donate your blood, this xx hospital, patient name: XXX. but actually if you have too much free time you can check with the hospital, and you will find no patient with such name.

I don’t know why people are too free to send those HOAX and SPAMMING emails.

Sometimes when you forward, your friend may forward back to you, and the curse back to you. Whenever i open this kind of emails, i just delete it after a glance.
I really annoyed by the emails.

But another thing that i can learn from this hoax and spamming (if they are sent not by bot but by your friends), is that you still receive emails from your friends, they still remember you when they want to send emails. Too bad if the spam is sent by BOT. :p
Well friends, i’m happy to received your emails, showing that you remember me still, but pls be wise in every emails that you sent. Make sure you don’t curse the ppl by sending emails, and make sure you are not sending HOAX.

Happy Forwarding Emails!

CNY planning

Actually i’m counting days down to the day i can go back to hometown.
Well in my mind i plan what should i bring home, what i want to do (eat) at hometown, and what should i bring back to Singapore. Wew.

Let’s start with first stage.
Stage 1: “What should i bring home”
For my family, i bought 2 polo shirts for my dad, few t-shirts for my brother, a used handphone for my mum, that is my current handphone, i’ll give to her. Btw my current hp is still in a good condition, and a better type than the current my mum is now using. :p.
Then, i’ll buy bak kwa.. something like dendeng.
My mum asked me to buy keychain for her friends and relatives.
Maybe i will buy snacks or chocolates, or candies, or CNY stuffs for relatives.

Then i still need to buy souvenirs for my friends too.
2 of my best friend married already last year, and i couldn’t attend. So maybe i’ll buy them stuff from precious moment. Maybe will buy jewelery box, or apron.
Got one friend will get married this February, and lucky i can attend. Coz his wedding is on 15 Feb, and my flight back to singapore is the next day
In this case, i’ll give ang bao. ^_^

Stage 2: “What i wanna do(eat) at home?”
I want to spend time with my family and relatives (to collect ang bao hahah), to spend time with my family especially.
Then i want to meet my friends. (Uhm.. let me see who can i call, Petty, Sisca, Christa, Nuron, Thelma, Novi, Ndogg…. then my church friends.. i can meet them at church anyway then… who else arr.. )
I will go CG.
I will attend Pj’s wedding.
I wanna visit my grandmother @ Bali.
I want to shop @ Mangga Dua, visit TA, CL, ;p
I want to borrow comics… well i think i miss a lot of them.. maybe i can spend most of my free time reading comics and playing PS2.
Watch gossips? Well can consider i have too many free time.

Foods that i crave:
* nasi liwet bu wongso lemu
* gudeg
* soto ayam kirana
* gurami rasa mirasa
* chili crab @ ungaran
* satay
* seafood mang engking
* pecel
* my mum’s cooking

erm bnenya juga pingin makan siomay, batagor, nasgor abang2, ujang… tapi itu.. must go to Jakarta, and i don’t have time for that this time.
This time i think i won’t have time to visit my friends in Jakarta although i miss them too.
GB fellows: Ellen, Iwei, Yun, Mei, Nina, Kaka, Wiwin
Keluarga 17: Grace, Lala, Lisa, Fani, Adit, Teddy
Abba: Melon, Tanto, —> i want to tease them :p + nagih makan2, Santi, etc.
Cannot be mentioned here one by one.

Stage 3: “What i should bring back to Singapore?”
Well i wanna bring :
* Sambal AbC
* Indomie Rebus… Cos i can’t find it in SGP.
* Local Snacks for my colleagues and church friends.
* Not so many things to bring back
Back to singapore must continue my diet ~_~

I think 11 days is not enough!
Dear friends, i’ll be able to contact from 5-16 Feb 2008.
Please ring me on my XL no, if you have not deleted my contact from ur handphone…

a bunch of quizzes

Your Blogging Type is Confident and Insightful

You’ve got a ton of brain power, and you leverage it into brilliant blog. Both creative and logical, you come up with amazing ideas and insights. A total perfectionist, you find yourself revising and rewriting posts a lot of the time. You blog for yourself – and you don’t care how popular (or unpopular) your blog is!

What’s Your Blogging Personality?

You Have a Choleric Temperament

You are a person of great enthusiasm – easily excited by many things. Unsatisfied by the ordinary, you are reaching for an epic, extraordinary life. You want the best. The best life. The best love. The best reputation. You posses a sharp and keen intellect. Your mind is your primary weapon. Strong willed, nothing can keep you down. Your energy can break down any wall. You’re an instantly passionate person – and this passion gives you an intoxicating power over others. At your worst, you are a narcissist. Full of yourself and even proud of your faults. Stubborn and opinionated, you know what you think is right. End of discussion. A bit of a misanthrope, you often see others as weak, ignorant, and inferior.

What Temperment Are You?

This quiz is relevant to me. I am a choleric indeed. Erm i think most of the description about me is true :”)

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free. In love, you feel the most alive when your partner is patient and never willing to give up on you. You’d like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful… that you’ll never change. You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please. Your ideal relationship is comforting. You crave a relationship where you always feel warmth and love. Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. You think of marriage as something precious. You’ll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred. In this moment, you think of love as something you thirst for. You’ll do anything for love, but you won’t fall for it easily.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

Mr. Soeharto

Mr Soeharto, the former Indonesian President dead today in age 86 years.
In my own opinion, he was a great leader, except his corruption, collusion and nepotism.
So far his contribution to Indonesia growth is not a doubt. Although he made mistakes, we still need to see his good part, he has done a lot of great job for Indonesia.
Well people has tendency to see only the bad part, but now he died at least we can release him with forgiveness.
By this post i just want to give my deep condolences.

CNY shopping part 1

Yay! I’m so happy today. because today is bonus day
Then i finish my CNY shopping also. Bought 2 dresses and 2 tops :p
I didn’t realized until i shop finish that i bought 2 tops in the same color and 2 dress in the same color too! X_X
But well, those color i really like. I don’t know now in my eyes i like grey, brown and maroon.
When i go browse @ the shop i always look for that color. :p

Actually wanna take pictures of my loots. but but… after i take it doesn’t look as good as the real one. So maybe later when i wear it, then i’ll take pic of it.

But my shopping has not finished, i still need to buy souvenirs for my mum’s friend, relatives, and my friends.
Well, let me post here the souvenirs i found.

One ashtray for my grand-uncle, key chains for my mum’s friends, metal bracelet for my brothers..
Still need a lot more…

Because long time i never post photos here… and my blog is kinda boring without photos… i’ll post photos that i took with my friend few weeks ago when i met them. They came to singapore for holiday, then i just met them one day only. went shopping with them and ate seafood at chinatown after shopping for souvenirs too.
Souvenirs @ Chinatown is very cheap, the key chain i bought 4 pieces for $10, @ Chinatown i can get 6 pieces of key chain for $2! But of course the quality differs a LOT!

From left: Harry, me, Hery.
Harry & Hery are twins. Haha just joking, they are siblings. My church friends when i were in Jakarta.
Nicko, me, Harry.
Nicko was my ex cell group leader.
He is a good leader, a spiritual father for us. ^_^
with Harry and Hery @ Chinatown, Pagoda Street.
Drinking beer while waiting for our seafood

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Ouch i forgot to take photos of our food
The food was good though, we ordered, sambal stingray, baby squid, kangkung belacan, and sweet and sour fish.

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our table was clean oledi after eating ^_^
Super hungry that time,.. we ate dinner around 9pm. super late!
(me, hery, harry, herry, herwin)
all guys’name started with H.
Take photos before we left Chinatown
Bye2 seafood….

I shall end this entry too
Now already 00.45, it’s time to go to bed, but i’m waiting for someone to go online.

forgive and forget

Yay! Happy, chinese new year is coming.. means i can go back home. no need to work! :p
i apply leave already, so what i need to do next is to make ‘to do list’ what to do at hometown.
First i want to eat food that i cannot find in Singapore. Then wanna meet my friends, spend time with my family. Well later sure i’ll make a long to do list.

Btw i hate if i cannot blog at office. I don’t know what happen with my pc, but always error when i want to save my post. Grr!
Actually i have a lot of things in mind to blog about when i’m in office because now i don’t have so much thing to do. Which is a lot of time i can waste to blog. But but but… blame to blogger, that always give me error. Well i can blog on notepad first, then post it when i’m at home, but blogging on notepad seems not interesting, and cannot help me build my mood.
So i just always say to myself to blog later when i reach home. But when i reach home, usually will have something to distract me. I don’t even want to open blogger. Then the next morning i’ll regret when i dont blog at home. of course i still cannot blog at office

So tonight i force myself to blog.

This time i’ll say i’ll learn to forgive and forget the past. Learn to give ppl a second chance, or an n-chance. because ppl always deserves a second chance.
When i say i wanna give a second chance to someone, i just say it in my heart, but some part of mine just can’t accept it. They keep saying some negative thinking that discourages me.
But i’ll say to myself not to hear them and close one eye. If needed then i’ll just close 2 eyes.
I cannot tell you the details about who i am going to give a second chance and why.
But although i’m stubborn and stone head one, i think this time i wanna decide something different. This time i’ll try to give full chance, not a half heart one… and believe that the person can make it. Even though later the person fails again, i will learn to accept.
I think this year i should learn to be more mature. Why should i fight to gain nothing rite?
To surrender my will is not about losing something. It’s just about delaying victory.
When i make this decision, slowly that discouraging voice fades off and i feel happier. I get peace back in my heart.

To forgive and forget doesn’t depend on your feeling, but it’s a decision. Your feeling will follow your decision.
To forgive won’t guarantee you that you can forget, sometimes you will still remember about the past, but when you have decided to forget, you won’t feel pain or angry if you remember about it. When you forgive and leave the past behind you, you can achieve more, because when you forgive means you move on from one dot to another dot, take another step forward.
When i don’t forgive, means i stay in the past and never move on, i will achieve nothing then.
So to forgive is not a loss, but is a first step that leads me to profit ^_^

3rd party

It’s common when problems occur in relationships. When it occurs between 2 people relationship, it’s much better if they can solve the problem by themselves no need to add third party to help.
The more people the more complicated the problems are. Because the more people means the more different thoughts, different opinion. Then it’s not mature if you always seek other people’s help to solve your problems. You are not a kindergarten kid anymore that always cries and runs to parents when something happens. You are a mature adult that can think yourself what you are supposed to do.

When you are adult but you still seek others ppl help, you are no difference with a kindergarten kid.

By forgetting the problems and leaving them in the past doesn’t mean you have solve the problems. You just run away from them rather than facing them bravely.
You cannot avoid problems either, they are always there while you live. Problems are there to help you getting mature, wiser, and more knowledgeable. Running away from it means you are never growing up.

It’s not suggested to have third party in any relationship. Well you don’t want your husband have mistress right. That’s the same with a one to one relationship, such as shepherd and sheep.
Between shepherd and sheep shouldn’t be any third party involved. Sheep can always communicate directly to the shepherd, and no one can limit the shepherd to communicate with the sheep directly too. So if you can communicate directly why bother to ask other party to be the medium in between? It’s such a stupid and silly way. You just give yourself more problems.

Even the scientist/technician try to make the world without limit using such advance technology i.e internet, telephone, GPS, GPRS, and 3G. Why do you even try to limit yourself? *Baka!

note: *Baka = stupid.