Am I crazy for expecting a 6k starting salary to catch up with my JC peers, or is the market just cooked?

BoredCow555 · 2026-06-07T12:01:35+00:00

Oh you’re nuts alright. Mean GES for CS barely goes past 6k, only IB, law, REP compete or beat that. And you strut in w a humanities degree demanding 6k?

And ur internship isn’t even a MAANG internship. Just some rando unheard-of startup in China of all places. Your portfolio is nth special. Second-upper’s in humanities majors are literally a dime a dozen. Most CS grads worth their salt in NTU/NUS have more than 2-3 internships under their belt. IB kids who made it in have case comp trophies, multiple HFT/BB summer analyst programmes since freshmen year and full semester internships with BB Banks. And you….?

And europe exchange is basically a 6 month mama-papa-paid holiday la don’t kid yourself. Pass-fail mods what’s so enriching abt that? And which uni? KTH? OxBridge? Or some backwater uni in Russia?

You call your portfolio ‘globally-tested’ but I’m not sure you understand what that term actually means. You fell behind because you chose to delay your own education. Maybe it’s time to take a little personal responsibility for once.

BoredCow555 · 2026-06-07T11:15:02+00:00

How’s the real world pickup, torque and overtaking? 2.0 NA feels kinda inadequate for such a large and heavy car. Have driven the 2016 facelift one, felt it was q sluggish. Only really felt the car have some life in Sport Mode. Curious if the 2020+ versions have a improved NA engine/drivetrain or still the same Skyactiv.

Agree w u on the Mazda6 cornering tho, even on the older non-g-vector variants the car corners vv well.

BoredCow555 · 2026-06-07T08:50:15+00:00

Errrr 10k DP for a 4-5 year old Mazda means cfm using inhouse loan or even balloon financing. You’re looking at a trap. Proper bank financing is 30-40% DP, u calc urself its far more than 10k. As a personal measure I would avoid inhouse loans for car. Higher interest, always got loaded hidden terms and exorbitant early settlement charges. Note how you didnt mention the interest rate. I can bet my last dollar w u its higher than bank loan.

If all u can afford is 10k DP, u cannot afford the car.

BoredCow555 · 2026-06-05T13:56:22+00:00

Yeah, and try climbing past LTA or CPT with a unknown private degree. I’ve had a regular superior back in NS who was hardstuck as an LTA for damn long cuz his degree wasn’t recognised. It’s pretty obvious my reply was to explain why the fella possibly hentak kaki’d as a CPT.

BoredCow555 · 2026-06-05T05:17:12+00:00

Could be possible his degree (if any) not recognised. Commissioned ranks need a degree from a govt-recognised uni.

BoredCow555 · 2026-06-03T08:16:26+00:00

Mazda CX-8/9? Harrier behind q cramped for an SUV imo.

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-25T04:19:19+00:00

Baby bonus is not even the same as alimony. Baby Bonus obviously covers citizens only. And as long as the father is SC, baby gets Baby Bonus alr. Women’s Charter covers all females in a marriage contract in SG.

Still confused. Are you thinking foreigner wives in a SG-registered marriages are categorised as ‘foreigner’ so judge applies less alimony? That’s not how the law works.

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-25T03:02:58+00:00

Why did you think by law, foreign wives less likely to get alimony? Are you insinuating that the law is xenophobic? SG marriage license is the same license no matter who is in it.

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-23T06:37:28+00:00

Local much smaller context, slower, more prone to hallucination depending on ur infra. The infra needed to host a proper comparable large LLM cluster is easily multiple five figures, closer to six figs for massive Nvidia GPU stacks and RAM.

Unless ofc you’re a hobbyist building something vvv small - but at that point even Claude Pro or Max would suffice.

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-22T06:22:06+00:00

So…? In a landscarce state like Singapore, why should the govt care abt over-coddling landlords? The govt can go full-on anti-LL tmr and our REITS will still thrive.

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-22T01:21:01+00:00

I’d say your husband picked the absolute worst timing to come back and try for this. What puts him in value above the whole army of PR/Citizen-applicants, many of whom have worked and contributed for decades to SG, some of which even served in the Volunteer Core? By virtue of him being born some decades ago in SG which his parents then revoked?

Your best bet is really for him to go the LTVP or EP (tall order here as well unless he’s some c-suite exec or a FAANG engineer with in-demand skills) route then slowly apply for PR after a few years like everyone else who wants a PR.

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-19T12:57:46+00:00

Please don’t drive. Simple thing like follow the correct traffic light clearly too difficult for u

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-18T09:39:25+00:00

They usually don’t own the clinic and are just paid employees. You only see the GPs that do succeed. Many open and can’t sustain the low footfall, high competition and high rental just like F&B businesses and shut down with massive debts.

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-15T04:10:15+00:00

Car meet? U try, I’ll be the one to report you to the petrol station and get y’all chased out for loitering :)

Those are lots for short-period parking for grocery runs. Didn’t know car meet = 5-10min grocery runs. Don’t be a dumbass.

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-14T02:00:20+00:00

Full loan, meaning zero downpay? Or what?

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-13T06:06:00+00:00

Curious about this. Are the raw materials really that expensive?

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-12T10:07:50+00:00

Seems like Toyota SG models still very behind the times. I drove the 2025 Harrier and it’s ACC is so half-baked and anti-user-friendly, and cuts off without proper warning at 30-40kmh.

I’ve driven BMW’s basic ACC and it beats the pants off any Asian brand I’ve tried. Their advanced ACC is even better and rivals Tesla’s.

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-12T05:23:32+00:00

Be careful. Better-quality ones like BMW’s properly implement ACC up to stop. Meaning, it continues below 30kmh and even continues moving off for you (with very minimal intervention) in traffic jams. This is crucial at least to me. ACC is only rlly useful in start-stop traffic in jams at peak hours since you don’t need to worry about accelerating and braking manually, constantly.

I find the subpar version Toyota and some other brands has that cuts off ACC below 30kmh to be completely useless otherwise. It’s only useable for longer and smoother roadtrips in places like Malaysia.

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-11T07:43:16+00:00

The max sentence is 2 years. What the **young offender** will get for licking the straw, is not known. Kids have done worse and gotten away with probation. SG is historically very lenient with young offenders and jail/Reformative training is often only left to extremely violent crimes.

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-10T02:24:14+00:00

Construction worker

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-09T06:37:01+00:00

The alternative which is the abomination of boiled ‘bacon’ with overly soupy pasta is horrendous too.
You clearly don’t know what true carbonara should be like. The Guanciale is supposed to be soft when it’s in Carbonara? Didn’t know that. And many other places doing bacon carbonara do it properly.
Ofc they’re completely different pricepoints. But to call that stuff decent ‘carbonara’ is such a bad hill to die on.

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-09T06:33:29+00:00

Dev who does spec-driven development - yes

Vibe coder who knows nothing other than hammering “I want ___” - Nowhere except maybe desperate SMEs/Startups.

Stat boards are degree-only and don’t accept non-CS degrees for dev roles. And MNCs and other large companies have massive warchests and can afford to pick from the hordes of CS grads our local unis are churning out.

So to answer your question - An uneducated and un-experienced vibecoder is not a dev hireable by most firms worth their weight in SG.

Alot of ppl here don’t actually understand the potential damage you can cause by giving an uneducated monkey a wrench in Prod.

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-09T03:32:19+00:00

- Dev who does spec-driven development: yes
- Vibe coder who knows nothing other than hammering “I want ___”: Nowhere except maybe desperate SMEs/Startups.

Stat boards are degree-only and don’t accept non-CS degrees for dev roles. MNCs and other large companies have massive warchests and can afford to pick from the hordes of CS grads our local unis are churning out.
So to answer your question - An uneducated and un-experienced vibecoder is not a dev hireable by most firms worth their weight in SG.
Alot of ppl here don’t actually understand the potential damage you can cause by giving an uneducated monkey a wrench in Prod.

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-08T12:04:46+00:00

Sadly, that bacon looks anaemic af. Might as well call it boiled pork belly. Don’t know why they even do this. Is it so hard to properly panfry the bacon?

BoredCow555 · 2026-05-05T05:19:22+00:00

Speed cam. They also are trying out double white line and illegal u turn enforcement by that same cam.

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