How about the Citroen Picasso? Got 3 individual seats at the back.Diesel!.

My daughter also has taken Chinese special program as 3rd language. She got Clementi Town Secondary School to study Chinese .

Hossain71:

Hi my daughter registered in SCGS IP today. we did choose Chinese special program as 3rd language. she has been allocated to Changkat Changi secondary school for that very far from us( We live in CCK). I called school, they asked me to appeal to moe ... any one know any school in west or North offer Chinese special program or any advice?

Thanks

mother777:

Hahaha yup forgot to mention Hindi along with tamil..Hindi also don't have resources. I totally agree..here..

I have not seen any Hindi assessment or text book in popular or other bookshops..

If a language is offered at MOE school, the respective resources must be made available to public

Yeah... If you know whom I should approach in MOE let me know. DAV and Hindi Society out there to suck money only; only shake leg. Parents need to put double effort . Hindi marks absolutely not transparent.

mother777:

The mother tongue issue is same across all ethinicity.

Being tamil, I would say I have heard my friends gripe about our kids lack on interest in Tamil. Hey but they still watch tamil movies ;).

Resource availability is another concern. Its not easy to get past year papers for Tamil. Even assessment books are way lesser compared to what is available for Chinese.

It could be because Tamil are minority here.
Not sure about Malay and the resources available to support it.

My daughter opted for chinese at P1, so we are making use of the ready resources at popular and past year papers.
Its a tough language. But if kids have a passion for reading and a curiosity to check the meaning of any new word they read, they should do fine..

When I grew up, I learned Hindi (not Tamil) and my parents could not support me in that front. But I still topped the class. Reason being I loved to read and was curious. Plus was scared that I will loose against the rest whose parents can support them. So worked double hard..

My DD likes chinese (not to the extent that she is crazy)..just likes it better than tamil. She is ok with it. She does complain about the compo..compre part.. rest seems to be ok.

But we communicate in tamil (my mother tongue) at home (so kiddos speak it well), and We taught basic tamil to my daughter so she can read.

Hope the future generation do not loose interest in MT of their choice and continue to support its existence into the years to come or else many languages will become extinct..except english which we all seem to embrace

For your information, people who have taken Hindi as MT has got lower T-score than Tamil. Child has got A* in other subjects except Hindi which is A. For Hindi we don't get any past papers . We are at the mercy of DAV and Hindi society . They will charge you 90$ every month but some teachers are hopeless. Even in Delhi we don't have such a high standard of Hindi. If somebody from MOE reading this, hope you can look into it.

248 - any chance of getting in IP? Can try MGS O-levels? Hope somebody can advise.

With 248 - which schools can we target for girls? Staying in West.

Zippysunflower:

Any feedback on the last English LC question. The question in gist was that the morale of the story was not to be greedy. A girl found a flute. When she blew it, she got some silver. She blew it a second time, she got some gold. She decided to return the flute and went to the police station. The policeman transformed into a wizard and told her luckily, she did not blow the flute for the 3rd time, else her clothes will turn into rags and all her money in the house will be gone. The wizard ended by telling her because of her wise choice, happiness will follow thereafter.


The answer chosen were mainly (b) honesty is the main policy while some chose (c) gold and silver cannot buy happiness.

Rationale for (b) - in returning the flute, the girl has saved herself from misfortunes.

Rationale (c) - the girl only returned the flute but not the silver and gold. She did not continue to try to blow the flute to get more gold or silver but she understood that happiness is not in getting more gold or silver but to live an upright live with good values such not being greedy.

To me, both answers are correct except which angle we are looking at. Question seems ambiguous.

Thanks

The passage never said she returned the gold and silver. So the girl is not honest.

BTW, what is the answer for the last question of English LC?

The kid should know that name calling is wrong.He may just end up as a bully in school later.There is no beating or caning done by the teacher.It is also something that the kid will remember a life-time.

These counsellors who say children should be gently chided sometimes have personality disorders themselves!
Our parents respected the teachers and gave them some authority to discipline children in school and I think we are a better lot compared to the current pampered generation.

Some consolation that others have been in the same boat too.

Since the damage is along the full rear of the car, it is pretty obvious that it is hit from the rear. There are lessons learnt from this incident.If the person apologizes also after a motor incident - never trust.Tomorrow he/she can cook up a story!!
Third party has kind of accepted in this case.
Hopefully by end of the day-it is settled.
Photos from different angles -the key to prove your point.