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Driving in Singapore - The Insider's Guide

Many of you will be coming to the age where you qualify to get behind a steering wheel or bike handlebars and zoom off into the horizon. There's a post on the same topic by Lay Kuan, though I'm going to try to take it from a different perspective. 

Introduction

The magic number for driving is 18, and you'll see why along the way. To the best of my knowledge, you can take the very first theory test (called the Basic Theory Test) in the year that you turn 18, and you can only take the final practical test (the one thing standing between you and a Driving License) in the month that you turn 18. Unless you're a guy enlisting in February or March and your birthday song is sung sometime around November, you really do not need to worry about trying to juggle timings to make things work.

The very first test you need to take is called the Basic Theory Test (BTT). It's a 45 minute test of 50 questions, on which you have to achieve a score of 90% or higher. Do so, and you receive a "Provisional Driving License" or PDL, which is valid for 6 months from the date of issue. The PDL entitles you to drive on the road while learning. The second test you need to take is called the Final Theory Test (FTT). This is somewhat more involved, but should not be too difficult to pass if you mug properly. Once you clear the FTT and all your practical lessons, you may sign up for the practical test. This is where most people fail - if they do - to meet the mark, and horror stories of irate, elderly testers abound. Passing the practical test means you get a driving license, and you and your vehicle live happily ever after. 

"Nomenclature"

Vehicles in Singapore are referred to by "Classes". However since this is a classification scheme and all good biology students will know that Biodiversity exists to make your life difficult, you'll find the following terms welcoming you when you try to learn how to drive/ride:

• Class 2: Motorcycle with an engine capacity exceeding 400cc
• Class 2A: Motorcycle with an engine capacity between 201cc and 400cc
• Class 2B: Motorcycle with an engine capacity under 201cc
• Class 3: A "manual" car (three pedals under the driver's seat)
• Class 3A: An "auto" car (only two pedals, and a lot less headache when learning how to drive)

The classes extend all the way up to Class 5, the likes of which are something like a fire engine or tank. Since I doubt many of us will be driving things like that in the near future, I won't be writing about that. I also won't be writing about motorcycles, since the process is somewhat similar to that of a car with the exception that it takes a much shorter time. 

Most people who intend to drive cars will learn how to drive a manual car (i.e. Class 3 and not Class 3A). The reason is that getting a license for Class 3 automatically qualifies you for Class 3A. I'm going to add another reason here based on my observation. If you intend to go overseas and rent a car to drive, you may not always be able to find an automatic car. The cost of rental for a manual car can also be cheaper, which will help if you are on a budget. The problem with opting for Class 3 over Class 3A, is that it's going to require a tiny bit more effort on your part during the learning process as you get used to using two feet to control three pedals. Once you adapt to it however, it really becomes a non-issue. 

Advice: Learn to drive Class 3 cars

There are two ways to go about learning to drive. You can sign up at one of Singapore's three driving centers, or you can hire a private instructor. The choice is entirely up to you, and both culminate in a driving license.

Driving Center

Advantages:

• Coordinated system. Book lessons/tests online, pay via credit card, access e-learning facilities.
• Easy access to the driving circuit.
• Access to driving simulators (Think super-realistic arcade machine).
• Lesser delay in acquiring your driving license
• Start driving in the circuit before you acquire your PDL.

Disadvantages:

• Significantly more expensive (approx. $50-60 for 100mins).
• Normally very crowded.
• Only three centers available, if you stay in the east, you have only one center at Ubi. If you stay in the west, you have a choice of Bukit Batok or Woodlands.

Private Instructor

Advantages:

• Cheap (approx. $20-30 for an hour).
• Somewhat more accessible, since they go into the heartlands.
• Spend more time on the road, which makes for more situational experience

Disadvantages:

• You need to make sure your instructor is qualified and reliable. A proper learning car has a brake pedal in the passenger's seat next to the driver so the instructor can intervene if necessary.
• You need to pay for access to the circuit when the time comes
• You don't have the support of a system already linked with Traffic Police
• It can take slightly longer for you to get your license, and you have to book your BTT/FTT with centers either way

Advice: Choose what fits best for you. It's really a matter of preference.

Here's a bit more about the driving centers. The center at Woodlands - the Singapore Safety Driving Center (SSDC) is the newest of the lot as it has just been renovated (it used to be the oldest). You get multi-storey goodness and a Honda City to drive. There's also more slots for tests and practicals since the center has the means to serve more people. Bukit Batok Driving Center (BBDC) and the Comfort Delgro Driving Center (CDCC, at Ubi) are somewhat older, and the word is that the lanes at BBDC are quite narrow. CDCC is located in an industrial estate, so you'll get to see a lot of the long-wheelbase vehicles that you read about in your BTT booklets. There's also a fire-station just outside the entrance to the center, so it's not impossible that you may encounter a fire engine blaring it's sirens behind you. Ultimately if you decide to sign up with a center you should choose it based on traveling time. You will have to go down to the center quite a lot (approx. 30 times) so you want an easily accessible location.

Theory Lessons

Regardless of the flavour of instruction you choose (driving center or private instructor), you're going to have to visit a driving center to take your BTT, FTT and Practical Test. If you're going private, there should be a counter of some sort for you to sign up. As a private candidate it's necessary that you get your BTT before starting lessons, since all your lessons will inevitably be held on public roads.

If you're planning to be a school candidate, here's where things get a little messy, and where the official insider's guide starts. Driving centers have separate test slots for their students, and some of these slots can be as late as two months from the time you sign up. This means two months of groveling around in the circuit trying to space out your practical lessons until you can get out onto the road.

So here's what you should do. First thing you need to realize, is that you can take the BTT anywhere in Singapore, then go back to your center with the PDL and have them recognize it. The same can be said for your FTT.

The BTT and FTT are relatively trivial for anyone who's been grilled by the wonders of a rigorous academic curriculum. All questions are MCQ, and you only need to choose from three choices. Most of the time two of those choices are so immensely improbable it is possible to eliminate them even without prior knowledge. This, of course, does not mean that one should be complacent.

Advice: Before you proceed to sign up at your center of choice, visit the webpages of all the driving centers or give them a call, and ask for available dates for PRIVATE candidates. Choose the nearest one and sign up pronto.

Practical Lessons

The average number of practical lessons needed anywhere between 20 to 30 for a manual car. The reason why I give such a range is because it really depends on the individual's ability and foot coordination/sensitivity. You probably only need five or six lessons to learn all the know-how to move the car and get it to do certain things, but doing so smoothly, acquiring good judgment and getting a feel for the car takes the rest of the time. If you're signed up with a school some lessons may also be dedicated to working on the virtual simulator, familiarization with an auto-car, or reviews before your actual practical test.

Depending on how pressed for time you are, there's actually nothing stopping you from booking multiple slots in the same day. Some people book slots back to back with a ten minute break in-between sessions, so they sit in the car and chit-chat with the instructors. Some people go down from Monday to Friday, some people go down twice a month. It's really all up to you. Note, however, that you need to clear all your practical lessons before you can sign up for the practical test, which can also be a very long wait. There's unfortunately no shortcut for this.

Advice: Pace yourself. Don't rush if you don't have to. You're going to be driving people around cars containing other people, and you need to be sure you can do it SAFELY. 

Practical Test

This is the big day. The person sitting to your left will no longer be a friendly instructor who will coax you through your driving, but a representative from Traffic Police wielding a big laptop. All he's going to do is tell you if he wants you to take a turn, park, or stop on the slope. You'll have to put up with him through both the driving circuit and the main roads. Accumulate more than 18 demerit points (magic number 18 again) and you fail. Mount the kerb or cross the white line at a stop sign, amongst other penalties, and you get an instant failure. If it helps, pretend that the guy's not there and that the person shaking his head in apparent dismay is really a parent who thinks you can't drive as well as them.

One thing to note is to NEVER ask the tester if you should turn at a particular junction or change lanes, or anything like that. Short of an emergency, keep quiet. If the tester wants you to take any action, he will give you ample notice. Elsewise, follow the road.

Advice: Take it easy, ignore the guy until he gives you directions, and don't drive too slowly. You can get penalized for that.

That's it. You've made it through an ultra long-winded description of getting a driving license, and if you've done everything correctly you now get to place a cute, fluorescent P plate on your front and rear windscreen. You get to go at relatively high speeds on the highways, top up fuel for your car, and no longer have to snuggle with encik and makcik on public transport.

Always remember to drive safely. With familiarity comes contempt and a very very alluring desire to step that much harder on the accelerator. Don't.

Sourcing for jobs

Thanks Kenneth for telling us about the types of jobs available! =) Also got to agree with him about being politics-cognizant in your work place. Even though everyone might treat each other with respect, there is a hierarchy--for example, director, assistant manager, senior executive, executive, assistant--and there will be people who take instructions and people who give instructions. Be smart and say the right thing!

Now I want to highlight a couple of ways to source for jobs.

1. Company websites.

I discovered this when I applied to volunteer at St Luke's Hospital--SLH had a section where they posted job openings. This section is different from the volunteer section and will say something like "Careers" or "Join Us". So I thought of other big name companies and searched their websites too! The downside is that you have to actually KNOW that these companies exist first, and then you have to go to their INDIVIDUAL websites. But I like that the application process is very straightforward and you don't have to through a 3rd party e.g. a recruiter.

Tip: Singhealth and National Healthcare Group are giant business partnerships with a whole range of work options. Go to their websites at look for all the TEMP or CONTRACT jobs. Naturally, don't go for the two-year contract or permanent jobs.

2. Broadsheet newspapers.

Say hello to your local The Straits Times. And you don't even have to buy the paper; just go down to your nearest public library! Check out the Recruit section. If you know what field you want to work in (e.g. executive, healthcare, sales, teaching/tuition), you can just go straight to the relevant list of jobs. If not, you can comb the entire section for, again, TEMP or CONTRACT jobs. Then you email/sms/call the contact, depending on what the advertisement tells you to do.

I personally had no success with this technique, probably because I didn't really search hard. The people I contacted either never replied, wanted a long-term employee or simply found someone else already.

3. Shopping. And basically getting out of your house to look around at the world.

Lots of shops post their advertisements on their shop window. Some even have walk-in interviews! o.O Again, a very straightforward recruitment process.

4. Applying for scholarships or combing the website of scholarship-awarding bodies.

The jobs you get through here are what Kenneth described as "internships". Some scholarship-awarding bodies actually require you to do an internship e.g. PUB. I think the pay is generally not very good, along the lines of $1.50-$3 per hour. The poly people who have to do internships will be very aware of this.

Tip: However, MOE's 6-month teaching internship pays well, and, I personally think, is a very meaningful job as well. That said, there is a screening process to go through. It is difficult for me to get information on this process now but we might be able to get more on this after June.

5. Lobang.

I have friends who have the most fantastic tuition jobs purely by recommendation from other contacts e.g. friends, family members, church friends (They earn as much as I do in 6 hours in ONE hour of contact time). Then there are those who have parents in high places who can link them to a temporary position at their own company, or at a friend's company. Then I know a friend who stumbled across her ex-teacher (or was it ex-trainer) on the bus and this guy subsequently offered her a job in a training company (think Nascans, Adam Khoo). Finally, I have a friend who is connected with the music scene in Singapore and got some short-term violin classes during a 3-month summer break.

As an introvert, I don't have any experience in this. Plus, there's just so much serendipity involved that it is hard for me to tell you what exactly to do.

6. Recruiters.

My friend told me that one tuition recruitment website will take some money after they pair you up with a student; not sure about this myself so just be aware of how your recruiter works. Some of my friends use this: http://www.recruitexpress.com.sg/. There is also: http://jobscentral.com.sg/.

7. Doing what you love, all the time, and being good at it + Serendipity + Taking risks

For this, I refer to Sidwyn's post: http://nushscollegetalk.blogspot.com/2010/09/journey.html

I think I have covered the most general ways of getting jobs. Of course, there are other ways. NUS High peeps will know that there is one job opening commonly secured by fresh NUS High graduates. There is freelancing. And of course, there is "being born a male".

IBN Youth Research Programme

Posted on behalf of Neo Boon Siong, NUSHS Class of 2011

Now that research congress is over, I shall take advantage of the brief respite to write a small article on the Youth Research Programme at Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. This article is mainly targeted at year 5s who are looking for choices for ARP.

The Youth Research Program lets students take on a full-time internship at a research lab that is quite highly ranked in Singapore. The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) has produced several noteworthy inventions and papers in the fields of biology and chemistry, and related fields such as material science, chemical engineering... IBN does have a large range of projects available, many of which are multi-disciplinary. Mostly bio-related (tissue and cell) projects, though.

Note that YRP insists, however, that you must complete 2 months of full-time attachment before you are allowed to start on part-time attachment. The following are the advantages and disadvantages:

Advantages:

- Full-time internship lets you do a LOT more for ARP

- Good-quality projects

- Assigned to a mentor who is an experienced scientist

- PAID attachment for full time attachment 8 weeks or longer - $30 / working day 

    note that if you take leave you don't get paid, haha

    on the other hand, you are getting paid to do your ARP, which you would have to do in any case

- unlimited milo / coffee / biscuits in the pantry; the auntie makes coffee every morning and lemon tea every afternoon as well

Disadvantages:

- Attachments shorter than 2 months cannot be submitted for external competitions (but most ARPs take longer than 2 months)

- May face confidentiality issues when sending projects for grading / external competitions

    IBN requires that all students have their poster/abstract/report/presentations verified by IBN before it can be released anywhere outside of IBN

- Slightly longer than office hours: 8am-6pm

    interestingly, most scientists come in at 9am or later

The email opening up applications was sent early March last year. Note that if you are selected for YRP, it automatically is a SOLO project. Supposedly there is an internal screening by the school, but I believe all who applied made it through. There will be an interview by YRP officers (IBN's HR) but they mainly ask how interested you are in research and how capable you would be. If you make it through this interview, I hear the next interview is more or less a formality: you meet with the director of IBN herself, but during the interview she assesses you to assign you a project and mentor. Here is where a little science knowledge will help, and it is good to name a field in which you are interested in. Note that you can read the website for a list of ongoing projects, and doing so really helps as it shows you have done your fieldwork.

For those who are interested, more than 10 people applied for YRP in my year. 3 got past the first interview, and all were assigned a project. However, one person dropped out citing stress as a reason. Although sometimes this may be unavoidable due to the SATs and APs happening around then, it does not leave a good impression of NUS High School students. Furthermore, you may have deprived someone else of a chance for a project by doing so. While IBN does require a pretty high level of commitment, it does offer a good experience, especially for those interested to get a taste of research as a career. Another person in my level went for the YRP but did not register through the channel opened by the school. However, he did not get the extended June vacation for his project, partly due to lack of communication with the teacher responsible, so if you do opt for this path make sure Mr Chiam knows you were accepted so you can be granted extension.

Those of you who are interested may be asking how you can find 2 months to do a full-time attachment, since if you dont fulfil that requirement you cannot begin part-time work. In my year, Mr Chiam opened 2 weeks before and 3 weeks after the June holidays for full-time work (excused from post-exam activities and start of semester classes). Effectively this opens up 9 weeks in the middle of the year, starting mid-May, for research. Especially since year 5s stay in hostel, transport is easy: there are direct buses 196 and 198, and you can collect homework and catch up on lessons from classmates.

All those who are accepted would have to sign a contract. Mine last year had the following durations:

- 17 May 2010 – 16 July 2010 (full time during June holidays)

- 19 July 2010 – 12 November 2010 (part time during school term)

 

- 15 November 2010 – 31 December 2010 (full time during Dec holidays) (sadly this portion was only 7 weeks so I could NOT get paid :()

As you can see, the large amount of time you can spend full-time (16 weeks total) is really helpful to completing a good project. Personally I was largely useless during the part-time attachment because meeting every Wednesday afternoon is useless work for the R&D industry (a full reaction normally takes 1-2 days to complete, isolate, analyse etc.)

My personal experience:

I was fortunate to have a very patient mentor who guided me very well throughout the project. He focused very much on teaching me useful laboratory techniques and how to carry them out without endangering me or him. My experience at IBN was generally fun, because researchers mostly get to do what they like or are interested in. The culture in IBN is quite relaxed, and exploring Biopolis for lunch can be quite fun. For example, IBN is in the Nanos building, which has a pretty nice cafe, and other buildings also house nice cafes. Matrix canteen is good, but boring. Cheaper options are to take the shuttle bus to Ghim Moh or Holland V and eat at the hawker centres there, or to travel to MOE building and eat at the canteen. Finally there is a nice ice cream shop about 5 minutes walk from biopolis.

I was also exposed to how research is carried out and really got to observe the work life of scientists. This is very helpful as I am still considering research as a career. There were also several conferences and speeches which I could attend, notably IBN's internal seminar which showcases the works of ALL the researchers there - definitely an eye-opener.

To sum up, the YRP is a really rewarding experience and a good candidate for ARP. The work you do will certainly be of high quality and you can take away insights into the research industry in Singapore as well as learn more about how to translate what you've learnt in NUS High into actual laboratory work and experiements. I highly recommend the YRP for interested juniors.

P.S. The project I worked with my mentor on was eventually accepted for publication in Organic Letters. This is definitely a boon for university resumes :)

The Student Worker [Part I]

There's a couple of reasons you'll be interested in this post. You're currently studying and looking for a bit of exposure or income over the holidays. You've graduated (lucky you) and you've come to the realization that you actually have a holiday for once where you don't have to worry about ARP, module selection or preparing for the next semester. To top things off, if your chromosomes happen to be XX, you have at least a good six months to work with. If your chromosomes are XY, you have a few months until the nation gives you a job.

So you're saying you want to work.

The first thing you have to realize, is that the moment you step into the working world, regardless of what job you do, you will not be given the same quarter you get as a student. Internships are somewhat in-between, but if you're formally applying for a salaried job, be it part-time or full-time, the expectations of you will be that of competent, politically cognizant, adult. My only disclaimer is that in whatever you do, make sure you have yourself covered. The consequences of not doing so are far more severe than if you make a mistake at school.

There are many types of jobs available for young people, and I'm going to try to group them here and talk about them at length. There's no way I will cover every category or be able to delve in-depth into every one of them, so if you want more information do drop us a note on the tagboard and we'll see what we can do about it. 

Tuition

This is arguably one of the most lucrative and easiest jobs to handle. It can also be the most frustrating. The deal is simple. You find students of an educational level you are comfortable with teaching, you meet up with them at some location to be arranged, and you teach them. There are many organizations (a quick Google search will place you in good stead) which will even help you do most of the legwork by pairing students to tutors, though I'll leave it to you to decide whether or not you subscribe to their services. The pay can be pretty good if you are able to establish for yourself a reputation as a good tutor. The stereotypical NUSHS student should do pretty well tutoring Math or Science subjects, and charges for an hour for say, secondary school students, can range anywhere from 20 to 50 dollars, purely as a guide. If you are exceptionally hardworking and you source for many students, arrange one-to-one private sessions, you can see how this translates to good income every month.

The downside of tuition, however, is that it can require a lot of additional "homework" on your part. If you decide to go all out, you'll need to prepare notes for them, mark assignments, administer mock tests, and occasionally talk to concerned parents. This I mention because there is the one rare situation where you meet a parent who may be less compromising in some aspect, and if you are not experienced enough or feel pressured, it may become an altogether unpleasant experience. 

Oh, and relief teaching at schools is not too far detached from the above, except that you get paid by day instead of by the hour. 

Front-line Staff

This is another big category, which although less well-paying compared to tuition, is an excellent chance for you to gain experience. There are many iterations of front-line staff. McDonald's cashiers, call center operators, sales personnel, receptionists, flyer distributors, the list goes on. You will get to meet many different types of people, and you're liable to get a good understanding of the immediate behind-the-scenes work of what happens when a customer requests a specific service. Pay is normally by the hour, and can be anything from 5  to 20 bucks, again purely as an estimate. I must add that these category of jobs are relatively easy to source, because the very people who take up these jobs move on equally quickly, and the skills required are not tremendously involved that you need a lot of training to pick them up. In other words, from a business perspective you are a dispensable asset.

The downside of working front-line, is that you really meet everyone. You will have days that suck big time, you will have days which you spend doing absolutely nothing, and you will have days where you do not get the chance to sit down or have a meal from 8am in the morning till 8pm. There's a tiny chance your boss may be a(n) , but I'd say that all that's part of the process of getting to see the world. 

Office Work

Ah, the white-collar worker. Most office work jobs normally come from referrals, and as such they are a bit harder to come by. To the best of my knowledge the easiest way to land yourself one of these is to look for an internship at say, a government body or a research institution. You normally get at least a nice chair and a shared desk, if not better. The type of work you will do can vary from day to day - anything from clerical duties, to administrative tedium to more interesting project management. If you're at a research institution you can be assigned to a senior researcher or supervisor, and it'll essentially be like working on your ARP all over again. Pay for office work is normally by the hour, and the rates vary so much I can't even quote a reliable range. Specifically however, most internships seem to prefer to refer to pay as "Allowances", mainly commensurate to the difficulty of the work, transport, and meal costs. The main advantage of having office work experience, however, is that the proverbial "leadership" stuff is all seemingly implicated in office work. Citing office or admin work experience can be one way of demonstrating how you've taken your leadership abilities beyond the school environment. 

The downside of working in the office is that you have to be prepared to clock office hours. This means things like 8am to 5pm, with lunch from say, 12noon to 1pm. Being the junior of the office means that you can get grunt work "arrowed" in your direction which you sometimes can't say no to. Ultimately your mileage will vary. 

Freelance Media

Some people I know of, and myself included, do some work in freelance graphic design, video editing, photography or music composition. This is somewhat a more specialized field that requires you have a knowledge of the area and normally a credible portfolio to go along with it. The big, big advantage of working in this area is that you get to work at your own time and decide what projects you want to take. If you don't like it, don't accept it. If you love it and want to do more, do it. The fees can also be lucrative. If you're seasoned at what you do in say, graphic design, for example, and you're asked to design a logo, you can charge hundreds of dollars for work that takes you less than an hour to complete. If you're asked to do a poster the charges can go by size, and for videos/music, the charges can go by minutes of video. Realize however, that you don't need to have a lot of time to set aside if you want to do freelance work. I did commissioned graphic design all through four years of school, managing my time as I went along. In time and with experience, you also have the benefit of being able to accumulate a nice portfolio that helps show scholarship agencies and universities that you are not only an academics person.

The downside of freelance media work is that not everyone can do it, and it's a dangerous industry for those who are in it. A lot of the industry is based on trust because for smaller-scale projects it gets difficult to work on deposits. If someone on either end absconds, things get sour fast. There will also be people who will steal your work if you're not careful, and easily so, since the bulk of the work done is digital.

Freelance Modelling

This mainly applies for the ladies, though I do suppose that interested, suave young men could qualify. Since I am neither this does not make me an authority on the subject, but I have come into contact with it every now and then, so here goes. The idea is that there are many photographers out there who could do with experience with photographing people, hence the need for models. Shoots are normally themed and linked to either ambiance (conferred by the location) or apparel. And unlike in the previous categories where there's salaries involved, beginners normally go for what's abbreviated as TFCD - Trade for CD. The model gains experience from the shoot, and so does the photographer. In turn for the model's time he/she receives a CD with processed photographs from that shoot with the permission to use them on their own portfolio webpage or as references for future, higher-profile modelling shoots. As time goes on the more well-known of the industry get to set their own prices, and even determine the genre and type of shoot they are willing to do. 

The downsides are clearly apparent in this one. Stories of shoots carrying lewd intent or models being coerced into uncomfortable situations are not without basis. You also have to be comfortable with the fact that your face and figure can at some point appear somewhere on the Internet without your initial knowledge.

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That's all for today folks. I've tried to describe the fields as generically as I can, my apology being that in doing so I will not have covered every aspect. It is very possible, and common, in fact, for different people to take away totally different experiences from the same job. Part II comes soon, on how to protect yourself while working.

Any requests for articles?

So you guys have probably noticed that collegetalk has been a little dead the past few days. That's what happens when our writers are busy either serving the country or whisked away to college.

As such, this is a call for:
1. WRITERS! Collegetalk has been sustainable for 2 years now with the help of our volunteer writers - juniors, students from others schools, anyone at all - and we want to keep it going! 2 years, ladies and gentlemen, 2 years!

2. Requests for articles! What are you interested to know more about?

Happy Chinese New Year

To our friends, both in Singapore and overseas, here's a Happy Chinese New Year from all of us at NUSHSCollegeTalk. Enjoy the tidbits, the extra calories and the Angbao money while it is still not our turn to give it out.