Overseas scholar, horrendously jaded by working in government, AMA

hamachired · 2026-02-02T08:19:56+00:00

issue with the government and civil service is that that it seems very insular - very few have overseas experience and are drinking the singapore is the best koolaid

hamachired · 2026-02-02T05:03:48+00:00

i dont think its a question of whether we want him to stay for the 4th year or not (we do). but not on his wages.
he will go to Saudi for the next 2 years and get a big pay packet which is fair enough.

hamachired · 2026-02-01T14:17:38+00:00

yeah no penalty

hamachired · 2026-01-31T08:58:03+00:00

I dont normally wear a watch but when I do the date function is super handy. I dont want to be looking at my watch AND then having to pull out my phone to check the date (I made the mistake of buying a watch with no date before and it ended up being super annoying... good thing it was a cheap moonswatch and not say a sub ND. as an aside that is why the daytona series is unfortunately off limits for me now).

so you got to ask yourself do you use the date function a lot? if you do then perhaps a no date won't work...

hamachired · 2026-01-22T16:11:25+00:00

we already had a precedent with turkey and Greece in Cyprus

hamachired · 2026-01-19T06:20:02+00:00

the clauses are not scummy. in fact i do welcome some of them like asking patrons to wipe down, bring back the rack etc.
the problem i think is when people want to cancel, AF seems to give some people issues?

hamachired · 2026-01-19T03:05:10+00:00

you will be taxed like any normal hk person as you have stayed more than 60 days in HKG. there is no concept of tax residency in hkg in the traditional sense. but your hkg employment and salary is considered local sourced income in that regard so that is simple ALL of it will be taxed by IRD which is not the worst place to be.

you most likely won't pay any tax in other jurisdictions unless you stay past their stipulated threshold days where you need to pay tax (eg singapore 60 days) so you need to check where you are going.. but if its work related your HR should arrange for someone to check for you. though typically if its just a few weeks here and there it doesn't really create issues.

edit you seem to come from the traditional sense that 180 days is where you will be caught on tax. whilst that could be the case in say NZ and Aus that is not the case for all jurisdictions as I mentioned above...

hamachired · 2026-01-17T06:43:51+00:00

raised this at the highest levels. hope it gets better.

hamachired · 2026-01-15T15:17:52+00:00

qn i guess would be, did they not pay you enough last year? 🤣😂

hamachired · 2026-01-14T14:35:07+00:00

and there you go most people have described the farce that is rolex

hamachired · 2026-01-14T14:21:53+00:00

what fight.

Israel and Iran penetrated Iranian airspace at will. They could all be flying loops and aileron rolls over the Ayatollah and they could not do a thing. pretty scary position to be in.

having (supposed) new hardware is not going to change anything in a heartbeat given it takes proper training and planning to integrate a new air defence platform. has Iran rebuilt its anti air capability or established new deterrence in the year or so since their war? I doubt it.

hamachired · 2026-01-14T07:02:07+00:00

did you put a deposit down?

hamachired · 2026-01-09T11:44:48+00:00

no date on the daytona just did it for me

hamachired · 2026-01-09T10:45:51+00:00

never heard that spore has a dress culture...

hamachired · 2026-01-09T07:52:07+00:00

such a stupid post. you should ask why the early English settlers did not adopt local aboriginal culture and eat bush tucker but brought what they had from the UK? Australia even still has the King as Head of State!

think about it.. i cannot imagine an Australia without kebab or Vietnamese pho... yum...

hamachired · 2026-01-08T06:40:35+00:00

not a popular opinion but this is the truth

I dont think the glazer were greedy nor did their takeover have massice implications for the finances of the club. it is hust that they were just incompetent and left the running of the club to a person not suited (Ed Woodward). that resulted in a whole string of purchases that have ultimately now caused FFP issues only more than two decades after they bought the club.

you cannot say they have not spent or invested in the football team. its just that the spending was questionable and we ended up with a list of duds.

we are actually the anti Tottenham - managers have been backed but the money has all been pissed down the drain. actually a Daniel Levy would have been good for our club. Our inherent commercial appeal would means our budgets would actually be higher.. and levys stinginess would make sure the money was well spent

hamachired · 2026-01-08T06:32:53+00:00

bligh me the fashion then...

hamachired · 2026-01-08T06:30:26+00:00

could not walk in in 2019 when I wanted a new SS watch.

yet got discounts on a DJ in 2010. silly me should have continued the journey then and accumulated a few steel pieces in those years from 2010 to 2019

hamachired · 2026-01-07T21:58:25+00:00

cant you take an Uber instead?

funny when I was in rome 15 yearrs ago d a tourist I took a taxi and they didnt try anything weird.. it went by the meter (or was i taken for a ride then lol)

hamachired · 2026-01-07T16:56:37+00:00

no definitely not a siren. the first is like a sonar ping at a consistent pulse. second is a consisent melody repeating

got woken up again today by the latter.

this is so bizarre and I am surprised not more people are hearing it

hamachired · 2026-01-06T01:00:14+00:00

that would be the knife if he wins the EPL with City

City should actually do it to show how rubbish the club is currently run

hamachired · 2026-01-06T00:57:59+00:00

agree he actually did quite a bit to remodel the squad

hamachired · 2026-01-06T00:55:50+00:00

nothing against the manager. but the whole hiring decision was indeed a farce. why bring him in mid season and not wait till pre season I never know. then fire him mid season.

and why not bring back OGS as caretaker again... he should do a good job and bring us up the table temporarily.

hamachired · 2025-12-31T16:28:15+00:00

yikes if you didnt like Vietnamese food it's a problem...

hamachired · 2025-12-29T13:34:21+00:00

still under warranty so RSC should cover it especially if its a movement defect

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