Alamak! 7k Mat cabby kana exposed to be a hoax

[streetsmart73]

It's a hoax afterall? Was thinking of applying taxi license next week.:( $7k is very good money for a poor old man like me.:o

hi there


1. yo! you poor thing.
2. that must be after you donated to sammy!
3. right

 

[spotter542]

FT pinay SPH / Straits Times journalist Maria Almenoar; the who wrote the $7,000 per month taxi driver story. What do you think?

Working as a prostitute in Braddell Brothel , she can only rake in maybe $40,000 p.a.
Working as a prostitute at Paramount Hotel pubs or Tanjong Pagar area pubs she may rake in $40,000 per month.
Same job , suck cocks only

 

[Extremist]

德士司机哈欣声称月入7000元，网民却爆料指他曾向朋友借钱还车租，还有人指他拖欠贷款公司4000元被人告。

哈欣今午受访时说，他是被陷害的，相信有人嫉妒他，才会捏造他拖欠贷款公司的谣言。不过他承认，他在驾德士前曾失业两个月，一时周转不灵才借钱还车租，他后来也已经把钱还给对方。对于那7000元收入，哈欣澄清，这是他5月份创下的记录，而非月月如此。

 

[cheekenpie]

knn... who actually believe taxi driver in this day and age can earn so much??

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Working as a prostitute in Braddell Brothel , she can only rake in maybe $40,000 p.a.
Working as a prostitute at Paramount Hotel pubs or Tanjong Pagar area pubs she may rake in $40,000 per month.
Same job , suck cocks only

With her type of looks, earn $40,000 per month as a whore is mathematically impossible.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

With her type of looks, earn $40,000 per month as a whore is mathematically impossible.

Yup the best is to put a paper bag over her head with a hole at the mouth area.

 

[GoldenDragon]

FT pinay SPH / Straits Times journalist Maria Almenoar; the who wrote the $7,000 per month taxi driver story. What do you think?

Looks a little like SL in her late 20s-early 30s.

 

[loneshark]

德士司机哈欣声称月入7000元，网民却爆料指他曾向朋友借钱还车租，还有人指他拖欠贷款公司4000元被人告。

哈欣今午受访时说，他是被陷害的，相信有人嫉妒他，才会捏造他拖欠贷款公司的谣言。不过他承认，他在驾德士前曾失业两个月，一时周转不灵才借钱还车租，他后来也已经把钱还给对方。对那7000元收入，哈欣澄清，这是他5月份创下的记录，而非月月如此。

Here comes the list of disclaimers.

 

[Extremist]

knn big cannon mat cabby drive cab for 2 mths only

 

[Kohliantye]

[QUOTE=BuiKia;1269399]all the fancy name for what? Earning is probably less than hawkers.[/QUOTE]

Poor things. High sounding names but belonging to low level proffessions.

Citizens of a very sick and badly managed island nation.

Led by over-ambitious and over-paid politicians.

Even the poor BUS DRIVERS are known as BUS CAPTAINS.

A bus captain can be chided by a Bus Ticket Inspector.

In the SPF rank of Inspector is lower then a capain.

What are this people with high sounding names trying to prove.

A NIGHT SOIL CARRIER is a night soil carrier.

He cannot be called a Environmental Executive.

What a stupid joke.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Here comes the list of disclaimers.

Report says he only drive taxi for 2 months then how can the so called 7k hit during month of May?

 

[Narong Wongwan]

With her type of looks, earn $40,000 per month as a whore is mathematically impossible.

If she does special orders like cim, dp, anal, gangbangs....some with fetishs will pay more

 

[godiva]

Report says he only drive taxi for 2 months then how can the so called 7k hit during month of May?

I was thinking about the same thing too. Many loopholes in his fairytale. I don't think he was some kind of Manager in his previous job too.

 

[Confuseous]

The Braddell Brothel should now come up with statement on why they are credible, and not like internet bs.

 

[Kohliantye]

wah lan...3k dishwasher, 7K taxi driver...what's next? Newspaper vendor earning 10K?

This is for the Exagerated Times information. Maybe these Maria Almenoar will pick it up.

She must go to Lau Passat during lunch time (on weekdays) and interview some of the foreign "nuns" and monks (tattoos hidden below long robes).

These "people of god" go round tables peddling "holy-threads". In their hands they hold $10/- probably to let the "alms-givers" be aware that that is the sum that they prefer instead of a paltry coin.

There are so many of these people. Some from PRC, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and even possibly from Pinayland.

At night they stay in red-light Geylang lorong hotels. Maybe prostituting there too......

I heard per good day each "divine beggar" make about $300/- and that works out to about $9000 pm. Dunno about the "holy-screws" they perform in the night.

Hope the Exagerated Times will send more of their freaky foreign reporters there or any other place where such people may also be present.

Sometimes I hope that I can one day travel to Beijing or Hanoi and do the same there. Dunno I will kena kill, masok lock-up or even rob by the people there.

Truly Uniquely Singapore where foreigners are more preferred over locals. here foreigners can survive at the expense of the locals.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

What would you say to this fucktard mat if one day you happen to hail his cab?

 

[Extremist]

 

[spotter542]

Thought he started his taxi career just 2 months ago ?
May seems a very long time ago .....

 

[Conqueror]

PAP Go Die

Thought he started his taxi career just 2 months ago ?
May seems a very long time ago .....

He damn howlian wor. One of those PAP craps to bluff the 60.1%. :*:

Ask PAP to go die.

 

[Conqueror]

‘S$7k A Month Driving A Taxi? Possible, But They’ll Burn Out’

‘S$7k a month driving a taxi? Possible, but they’ll burn out’


Can taxi drivers in Singapore really make as much as S$7,000 a month?

Yes, according to stories carried in The Sunday Times.

But don’t quit your day job yet.

32-year-old Muhammad Hasnor Hashim and 32-year-old Mark Leow, who have only started driving taxis in the past year, told the paper they earn S$7,000 and S$6,000 a month, respectively,

Hasnor reportedly said he earned that hefty amount driving his own “money-making machine” from 5:30am to 9:30am, 2pm to 6pm and after dinner until 10pm six days a week. He also drives on Friday and Saturday nights for extra money, raking in $200 a day even after deducting $150 for rental and fuel costs, and up to $500 a night on Fridays and Saturdays.

In Leow’s case, he drives a seven-seater Maxicab for up to 15 hours a day. His $300 daily income, taking out costs, stems mainly from shuttling hotel guests, corporate clients and airport passengers — and many of his trips carry flat rates.

Drivers in Singapore frequently operate on 12-hour shifts, dividing the day’s rental and fuel with one other cabby who will pull the other shift. Some drivers, like Hasnor, though will rent for a full day, giving them the flexibility to decide when to drive out to ferry passengers.

In the six years he has plied the taxi trade, 49-year-old Jeffrey Loon said he earns anywhere between $20 and $25 from one hour on the roads.

Deducting about $100 for fuel and a half-day rental, the day driver shared that his takings usually come up to at most $200 from a full 12-hour shift, amounting to slightly more than $4,000 a month in takings, working six days each week.

“If you drive for more than 12 hours a day, you could possibly hit $6,000 a month, but how long can you sustain that? You really have to work very hard, and be very disciplined either way,” he told Yahoo! Singapore.

Loon also shared his doubt on the viability of taking breaks in between time on the road, saying he prefers to drive for 12 hours non-stop and then rest afterward.

“It’s really about sustaining the momentum. Once I stop, I find it very hard to start again,” he said. “I find the thought of going back home to rest for two to three hours and having to come out again very daunting.”

Another 54-year-old cabby, who wanted to be known as Mr Yeo, agreed with the hourly amount Loon shared.

In the 10 years’ experience he has had driving taxis in Singapore, Yeo, who drives the 12-hour night shift, told Yahoo! Singapore he earns slightly more than $3,000 a month from working either five- or six-day weeks.

His takings, he says, average at about $120 a night, after deducting $40 for diesel and $52 for his share of the rent.

“I’ve heard of some drivers who work 15 or 16 hours a day, and who earn about $4,000 to $5,000 a month,” he said. “But on eight hours a day, I highly doubt it’s possible to earn so much, unless you’re lucky and always have people waiting for you everywhere you go!”

Once in awhile, Yeo says he sees better months, with takings exceeding $4,000 especially at Christmas and New Year. Apart from that, though, he remains sceptical that it is possible to earn as much as Hasnor does assuming the latter works just 8 hours a day.

Blogger and taxi driver James Lim rebutted some of the various points in the articles.

For example, he said, driving for eight hours a night on a good day, he can take home about $158 after fuel and rental. In a month of 25 days of work, his income can come to about $3,000. Even if a driver does two shifts of 16 hours, he would get about $5,400.

“But can a single person drive 16 hours a day without breaks for 25 days a month? Impossible, unless he is a robot,” he said.

This situation seems to be the case even for younger drivers. One 37-year-old cabby whom Yahoo! Singapore spoke to, who has been plying the roads for the past five years, earns roughly between $3,000 and $4,000 a month as well on the night shift.

“It’s not every day that you can earn,” he said. “The increase in flag-down fares and surcharges has made things easier for us, but there aren’t always people around.”

He shared about a fellow taxi driver who had just started out three months ago, and while that cabby does earn $6,000 a month, he drives from 7:30am to 2:30am, six days a week.

“I asked him, how are you going to wake up for the next day? You can’t keep this up, you’ll burn out,” he said, sharing also that he supplements his income with a small online business selling mobile accessories.

“If I could find a more stable job, I think I would prefer to stop being a taxi driver, so that my income will be fixed,” he added.

Data from the National Taxi Association seems to also point to the possibility that Hasnor and Lewo may be one-off success stories in the taxi industry here.

Advisor to the NTA Ang Hin Kee told Yahoo! Singapore that in general, most taxi drivers earn slightly more than $2,000 a month after offsetting rental, fuel and ERP costs.

“Taxi drivers should not push their physical limit by spending more hours on the road to earn more,” he said. “I spoke with some of the more experienced taxi drivers and they have indicated that earning a net income of $6,000 is almost what two drivers take in with extra hard work. It is hence rather uncommon to achieve that kind of amount driving alone,” he added.


But, I think this is better than sitting at the night market waiting for people to buy a nail clipper.