Reply to: Boiling

[AtW]

Fck knows to be honest. I think the truth of it is that if I was me, but born here and local (Chinese, malay, indian etc) I'd get paid a lot less than I'll get paid for being western. Not that I'm complaining.

And to play devils advocate partially, I think culturally people in this part of the world can be very clever, and can be very good at following process but once it comes to independent thinking, or when things go a bit off piste then maybe they're bnot as good.

Just don't vote for the commies there mate - you'd be first on a march to Nu Liebor camps

[Spacecadet]

Fck knows to be honest. I think the truth of it is that if I was me, but born here and local (Chinese, malay, indian etc) I'd get paid a lot less than I'll get paid for being western. Not that I'm complaining.

Don't sell yourself (or them) short. You're being paid extra because you're bringing in certain experience and/or knowledge which they can't source locally.
The days of westerners being paid more just for being westerners is long over and they have a deep culture of not wasting money. If something is not making a profit then its not worth having.

Which probably explains why the country isn't mired in debt

[AtW]

Well you seem to have remembered yours.



Pwned yet again.

Yes I only forget mine when I post under my sock puppet accounts.

[sasguru]

You forgot to add your signature - Cretin.

Well you seem to have remembered yours.



Pwned yet again.

[AtW]

Why do you tell people to be quiet when you blather and witter on here like a retarded idiot with verbal diarrhoeia? He he.

You forgot to add your signature - Cretin.

[EternalOptimist]

Well done Snaw, keep the stories coming, it sounds fantastic.
Dont forget to eat your five fruits a day though, they are pretty hot on that over there. A mate of mine hired a cheap filipino maid and it turned out she was spying for the authorities, a couple of times he only ate four of his daily portions and he was hauled in to explain why he didnt support the program.
The next time it happened , they gave him two weeks in Changi gaol, removing the kernels from rice grains with a needle.

be careful out there.

[snaw]

Quiet. And that's why they pay foreign contractors like yourself a lot of money?

Fck knows to be honest. I think the truth of it is that if I was me, but born here and local (Chinese, malay, indian etc) I'd get paid a lot less than I'll get paid for being western. Not that I'm complaining.

And to play devils advocate partially, I think culturally people in this part of the world can be very clever, and can be very good at following process but once it comes to independent thinking, or when things go a bit off piste then maybe they're bnot as good.

[sasguru]

Quiet. And that's why they pay foreign contractors like yourself a lot of money?

Why do you tell people to be quiet when you blather and witter on here like a retarded idiot with verbal diarrhoeia? He he.

[AtW]

But generally yes, they're way better - think Singapore pupils are the highest maths achieving pupils in the world (Sure I cam across that somewhere). Sure the private sector reflects that also.

Quiet. And that's why they pay foreign contractors like yourself a lot of money?

[cojak]

A word of advice there. Do what the locals do and don't go soft by paying too much or giving too much time off.

It may be hard to get to grips with but you will get used to it.

I would give a whole day off a month though, I wouldn't be that mean....

[snaw]

Most of my experiences are in the west of the city, out by Tampines and the much newer Sengkang.
In both area's you shouldn't be short of choice. They also have enough local shops, cinema's, restaurants, bars etc... for you not to have to bother going into the center if you don't want to.

The one thing which takes some time to get used to though is the prevalance of the high rise apartment buildings all looking almost identicle.

Cheers SC.

1st day tomorrow of house/apt hunting, got an agent and 7 places lined up for viewing. Seen em on the internet, but it's never the same.

[snaw]

Thanks for that, Snaw.

I bet the education system is much better as well - you have kids don't you?
Thats the main draw for me TBH. Either that or spend thousands on a private education here. Although if you go to expat school you're probably going to spend thousands anyway. Still I bet the local schools are better than your average comp here.

Unless you're local you have to send your kids to private.

But generally yes, they're way better - think Singapore pupils are the highest maths achieving pupils in the world (Sure I cam across that somewhere). Sure the private sector reflects that also.

[AtW]

I even helped my local tory MP get in!

TMI

[snaw]

Votes Labour all his life, waits until Labour have destroyed the country and then pisses off abroad and raves about how cheap he can get a maid and how little tax he pays and how small business is encouraged.

What a ****!

Oi. I never voted labour in my life.

To be fair I probably would've vpted for Blair in 97 if I'd been living in the UK, but I was SNP in Scotland and I voted *cough* liberal in London. I even helped my local tory MP get in!

[Sysman]

Did I mention you can get a maid here for about £200 a month, cook, cleans, babysits/nannys and if yer a real ***** you only give her a day off a month (That's what the local chinese do). It's mental. We paid £100 a month for a cleaner to turn up once a week in London for 3 hours.

My 'socialist' credentials are taking a battering.

A word of advice there. Do what the locals do and don't go soft by paying too much or giving too much time off.

It may be hard to get to grips with but you will get used to it.