Asking for 90 days Social Visit Pass / Max Visa Run

[generalsu]

I have my doubts that your claims hold any validity, at least based on the tone of what you have written here. If you spoke imperiously to them the way you do on this forum, you're lucky they even let you into the country at all. In fact, I don't see you as being all that successful with you short tempered fuse when you don't get your way. You'll have a rough time here, guaranteed.

You may well have been a general where you came from. But here you are dogmeat. You have no rank in this country. You rank plus 80 cents will get you a cup of kopi and not much else. You may well be used to people bowing to you but here in Singapore you better learn some humility......fast. If you are to be successful, that is.

They probably replied to you exactly the way we have and for the same reasons. You even admitted the other poster made you mad. Mad?

Let me ask you a question, what race are you? Short fuse? LOL, that goes to show people like you are judgmental, biased and close minded. I was criticizing an immigration officer and yet you take offense to that. I don't have a short fuse, but I do know that I have done nothing wrong to deserve that kind of attitude from you.

[generalsu]

@generalsu, are you still staying in the same apartment you rented earlier while on EP?

Why you wanna know?

[Mad Scientist]

. You even admitted the other poster made you mad. Mad?

You rang ??

[JR8]

@generalsu, are you still staying in the same apartment you rented earlier while on EP?

Why you wanna know?

Duh!

[ausinsg]

So...Masters or not?!

I actually felt a bit sorry for the ICA people a couple of years back when they advertised for new people. The pay was only $1800 - $2400 a month. Shift work some more!

It never hurts to think of things from their point of view for a moment.

[x9200]

@generalsu, are you still staying in the same apartment you rented earlier while on EP?

Why you wanna know?

What you are doing is illegal. If ICA discovers it both yourself and your landlord will be in trouble.

[ecureilx]

I actually felt a bit sorry for the ICA people a couple of years back when they advertised for new people. The pay was only $1800 - $2400 a month. Shift work some more!

I know a few people, who work in ICA, and while the basic is low, there are a lot of allowances....

For a first time job seeker, a govt job at that rate, with all allowances, and benefits, it is a fair pay .. says my friends ..

And atleast a couple of my friends in ICA have been there since graduation .. and sort of are sold on the concept of 'iron rice bowl' .. re: govt jobs .

[sundaymorningstaple]

@generalsu, are you still staying in the same apartment you rented earlier while on EP?

Why you wanna know?

As JR8 expressed,

Your attitude, dude, your attitude.

Me? I am from a country that has 90 day visas on entry. But not when I needed them as that started many years after I got my PR here. I believe it was started when the US started the Visa Waiver Programme of which Singapore was included as a recipient of the Waiver as well upon the advent of the biometric, scanable passports.

Oh, for the record, I been here almost 3 decades and have worked in every country in Asean except two during those 30 years. Only once have I found extremely rude immigration officers in any country in Asia except for those in Balikpapan, Kalimantan. Of course, I was unfortunately doing a crew change the morning after the US bombed Libya and happened to have an eagle on the front of a blue passport. Oh, and once in Perth and his Superior reamed his butt royally as well. Actually that wasn't an immigration officer but a customs officer.

From another standpoint, it seems to be general acceptance that Singapore Immigration Officers are by far and large, extremely courteous (I haven't seen one negative on this board from anybody except you in the 7 years I've been on this board). So, if they DID act that way, they almost surely had to be on the receiving end of a barrage of insults from the other person, namely, yourself. Therefore, you must pardon us if we take your vehement spewing about them here as a token of the way you must have talked to them as well.

[sundaymorningstaple]

And, additionally, if you are still living in a rented apartment, you are in violation of local law as you are not allow to rent properties without a proper residency visa. You can also get the landlord in heaps of trouble as well.

That is another one of the reasons foreigners have to give 30 days notice when they leave their employment. It gives them time to give notice to their landlords as well. It would seem you failed to do so, therefore, be very careful what government officer you tick off the next time.

[ecureilx]

To lighten up the day ..

SMS: GOOD ENGLISH, GOOD ENGLISH allow or allowed ..

And, additionally, if you are still living in a rented apartment, you are in violation of local law as you are not allow to rent properties without a proper residency visa. You can also get the landlord in heaps of trouble as well.

[sundaymorningstaple]

It's not a problem of good English. It's a problem of age!

I still think at the same speed (well that's not true, today I think a lot like the locals, so my though processes have slowed down considerably), but these fingers can no longer keep up with the speed that I think. Today, I can only type around 45 WPM, unlike 20 years ago, when I could type 85 wpm! So, that is also why you often see things like 'you' instead of 'your' as well. My typing accuracy has also turned to crap as well!

[ecureilx]

So, that is also why you often see things like 'you' instead of 'your' as well.

And here I am thinking you have been acclimatised and been switched to partial "singlish"

As I tried to learn chinese, in Chinese, the present/past/future all sort of have the same wordings, and hence, when people think in Chinese and write in English, the tenses all get mixed up, or so I think .. or thinked .. or thoughted

Back to the thread .. is the General still gonna convene a court martial ?

[generalsu]

So, that is also why you often see things like 'you' instead of 'your' as well.

And here I am thinking you have been acclimatised and been switched to partial "singlish"

As I tried to learn chinese, in Chinese, the present/past/future all sort of have the same wordings, and hence, when people think in Chinese and write in English, the tenses all get mixed up, or so I think .. or thinked .. or thoughted

Back to the thread .. is the General still gonna convene a court martial ?

I didn't expect sarcasm from what I thought was a mature forum. Looks like we've got kids running around here.

[ecureilx]

I didn't expect sarcasm from what I thought was a mature forum. Looks like we've got kids running around here.

I dunno but, atleast I was mature enough to answer you properly before you decided to call ICA guys as Vile Pigs, and with your self-declared "GOOD ENGLISH" talents, and made me question MY MATURITY



Dunno= Don't know / Do Not Know / I do not know

[sundaymorningstaple]

I didn't expect sarcasm from what I thought was a mature forum. Looks like we've got kids running around here.

Pot? Kettle? Black?

Mature people don't go around calling their host country's civil servants vile pigs and such. I can definitely understand why you didn't get 90 days even had you been from the right flavour country.

Maybe a long inward look would be in order for you.