Just back from a trip to visit family in singapore (we’ve lived overseas for many many years) and it’s wild to me that Singapore doesn’t really have a strict child seat policy. Over here it’s rear facing until at least 2, but most people rear face until the child maxes out the RF limits of their seat, usually around 18kg. My 4 year old is still rear facing! And kids need to be in a car seat legally until they are 7 but ideally until they are 148cm tall or 11 years old. We asked the family in singapore about borrowing or hiring a car seat and none of them knew anything despite having young kids themselves, so we ended up bringing our own from NZ.

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Those going for the withdrawal method might find this year registration a challenge.

this year, cannot go last minute 3.30 pm to withdraw, because

long queue due to social distancing

It seems like you might not even be allowed to go down to withdraw, as it says ‘there will be no in-person registration this year’, which should mean no in person withdrawals either. Probably have to do everything online.

Primary 1 registration for 2021 moves online, introduces cap on intake of PR children

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/primary-1-registration-online-2021-cap-pr-children-12773368

worried_mummy02:

Hi all


How do you deal with this issue? I oso love my son more than my daughter and i m so worried she will resent me..

Worried_mummy02, I just saw in another thread that you are expecting your daughter soon? She’s not even born yet! How do you know you love your son more than her? Give her a chance!

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zac's mum:

And then I support teachers and staff can upgrade to Phase 1, since they need the same convenience of travel as Siblings category.

But must remove all the PR children from Phase 1, only SC can enrol into Phase 1

I think that’s a bit harsh. How many PR phase 1 kids can there be? No foreigners in phase 1, but PRs are OK. They are still residents, after all. And, no, I’m not a PR. :siam:

zac's mum:

And then I support teachers and staff can upgrade to Phase 1, since they need the same convenience of travel as Siblings category.

Agree.

Zeit:

I'll move on from this tiresome debate cos MOE has already set aside 20+20 places for non-alumni, causing some 2A1 to have to ballot. What more do they want? I also heard there's a 20% quota imposed on sec schs to take in non-affiliates.


https://www.straitstimes.com/politics/parliament-20-of-places-in-affiliated-secondary-schools-set-aside-for-non-affiliated

I think that's enough policies for now.

20 is nothing for 2C. I’ve always thought it should be phase 1, and then after that, all remaining vacancies are to be divided into thirds – 1/3 for phase 2A (1 and 2), 1/3 for 2B and 1/3 for 2C.

2A1 and 2A2 can share 1/3. Any remaining seats will be passed down to 2A2 and if there is balloting in 2A, too bad. This still retains some priority - You get to enrol first, and if you don’t get a seat in 2a, then you can try again at subsequent phases if you’ve met the criteria.

Wow. My MIL and FIL both treat me really well. My husband is the youngest and only boy (he has four sisters) but there’s no preference. If anything, they seem to have a soft spot for their eldest daughter. PIL treat me as another daughter - when they go on holiday they’d buy us stuff, including all the children-in-law (my father-in-law bought me a jacket from a recent Europe trip :love: ) and even though my husband is the only son, they always tell him to give me food when we go out for dinner and help me wash dishes etc, even though in our family he cooks and I wash.


I guess I’m one of the lucky ones.

Congrats, Fish Fingers! But March next year - means your wife must only be about a month or so along? You won’t know the gender yet, right? Usually around 18 to 20 week? Or is my maths wrong?

CatMoon:

Attolia,


Wow, 25 years in Auckland is a long time. Has the job market for Asians better there now compared to 10 years ago? Or the \"you need kiwi experience\" still the norm?

We used to live in Auckland for 4 years (Newmarket area) - my husband thought he wanted to migrate there as he thought SG was stressful and education would be easier for the kids... :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

Our experience was bittersweet - lots of blood, sweat and tears! But it was a good learning experience: Living in NZ toughened us up, forced us to be humble and forget about our pride.

We learnt a lot of survival skills - My DH learnt to be humble and took up 3 jobs (taxes were 25% on a weekly salary) and lost 20kg in 6 months. I learnt to be thrifty (food was expensive when compared to NZ salary) and became smarter about budgeting to put food on the table for the four of us, even to mend and sew and be creative about clothing the kids as they grow up.

We also learnt to be grateful and thankful for what we have - even simple things like having a picnic on One Tree Hill as the highlight of our weekend when there was only $5 in our pocket. Having meals at McDonalds was a thing of the past but I made sure that my older girl had an ice cream cone there once every 2 months.

We also learnt to work as a team with our friends and neighbours - car-pooling coz different parents have to work different shifts, looking after one another's kids, cooking for another family when things are worse off for them..... I've learnt to really \"feel\" what compassion is all about.

When we left, we had to sell everything which we shipped with us from SG, so we can raise part of the money to buy 4 tickets to go home.

Even today, I've so much conflicting emotions about living and working in Auckland. I guess I've learnt to grow up there.

I don't remember our situation being as dire as that, but certainly we weren't rich when we came over. Bought a 3 bedroom house for $170K and still needed a mortgage. As for jobs, Kiwi experience is still preferred, but also I think over here, your interview makes a huge difference. I have plenty of friends who have less than stellar paper qualifications (no A's at university, just scraped passes) but who are exceptionally good at interviews and presenting themselves, and they have done very very well job-wise, so it's my impression that they will look at your qualifications but are more interested in how you will fit into the work culture there, which is something that a lot of Asians fail at. Good on paper but not so impressive at presenting themselves. Of course, i'm generalising, but generally that's what i've noticed.

Yes, we spent a lot of our weekends picnicking at Cornwall Park or One Tree Hill. It was 6 years before we could afford to go back to Singapore for a holiday. But that's ok. I was a kid when we came over, but I can honestly say my parents never once thought of going back to Singapore. Our lives were better here. Migration is not for everyone but it worked out for us.