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Hi, wish to share this project that is ongoing until 20 Feb 2013. There isn't any governing bodies nor companies authorizing this, this project began with a group of ordinary people but with a heart to share. you may refer to the following link for future clarification. http://siamamulets.com/showthread.php?t=42102 I plead for your kind assistance and contribution. as for myself, I'm in charge of collecting stationery and children's clothes ranging from 4-12 years old. - for children's clothes, please have them washed before donating. if possible, please separate the stationery and clothes. Pm me know if you could help, i could collect these contribution/donation at your premise. (due to work and opc restriction, i could only collect after 7pm or during weekend) Thank you. (PS: looking for yacht rental, docking charter which will be used for wedding solemnization)

Know there are many amazing MCF bros taking on jobs as undertakers, cleaners, professional/amateur trolls, etc [laugh] but do you really want your children, if any, to follow your footsteps? I'll start. I was trained to be a civil engineer but no longer practicing it (I hope!!!) though still in the same industry and I will [smash] beat the crap out of my kiddos if they are to tell me one day they would like to be engineers. Bros in this line will know how hard it is to be one [:(] Your views?

the best is the last one [laugh] Kids' Answers A 1st grade school teacher had twenty-six students in her class. She presented each child in her classroom the 1st half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. It's hard to believe these were actually done by first graders. Their insight may surprise you. While reading, keep in mind that these are first-graders, 6-year-olds, because the last one is a classic! 1. Don't change horses until they stop running. 2. Strike while the bug is close. 3. It's always darkest before Daylight Saving Time. 4. Never underestimate the power of termites. 5. You can lead a horse to water but how? 6. Don't bite the hand that looks dirty. 7. No news is impossible. 8. A miss is as good as a Mr. 9. You can't teach an old dog new math. 10. If you lie down with dogs, you'll stink in the morning. 11. Love all, trust me. 12. The pen is mightier than the pigs. 13. An idle mind is the best way to relax. 14. Where there's smoke there's pollution. 15. Happy the bride who gets all the presents. 16. A penny saved is not much. 17. Two's company, three's the Musketeers. 18. Don't put off till tomorrow what you put on to go to bed. 19. Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and you have to blow your nose. 20. There are none so blind as Stevie Wonder. 21. Children should be seen and not spanked or grounded. 22. If at first you don't succeed get new batteries. 23. You get out of something only what you see in the picture on the box. 24. When the blind lead the blind get out of the way. 25. A bird in the hand is going to poop on you. And the WINNER and last one! 26. Better late than pregnant. [laugh]

Being exposed to high levels of air pollution from traffic may raise the risk of autism, according to a study done by Heather E. Volk, assistant professor of research at the University of Southern California. Autism is a diverse disorder marked by problems in communicating and interacting socially. The study analyzed data from 279 children with autism 245 children without the disease. It also made use of information from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and did traffic modelling to find out the amount of traffic-related air pollution at each location where the children lived. Exposure to particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide was taken into consideration as well. According to Volk, children exposed to higher levels of traffic-related pollutants during pregnancy or during the first year of life were at increased risk of autism compared to children exposed to the lowest level. The link between pollution and autism is not certain. However, some pollutants have been shown to inhibit the activity of an important gene in early brain development. Expression of this gene has been found to be reduced in autistic brains. Air pollution can also cause inflammation, and that may play a role, Volk commented. Some families prefer to stay near the town center where bus terminal is located and car traffic is heavier for convenience sake. Perhaps it may not be such a good choice after all.

10 Year Old's Love Story Little Bruce and Jenny are only 10 years old, but they know they are in love. One day they decide that they want to get married, so Bruce goes to Jenny's father to ask him for her hand. Bruce bravely walks up to him and says, "Mr. Smith, me and Jenny are in love and I want to ask you for her hand in marriage." Thinking that this was just the cutest thing, Mr. Smith replies, "Well Bruce, you are only 10. Where will you two live?" Without even taking a moment to think about it, Bruce replies, "In Jenny's room. It's bigger than mine and we can both fit there nicely." Still thinking this is just adorable, Mr. Smith says with a huge grin, "Okay then how will you live? You're not old enough to get a job. You'll need to support Jenny." Again, Bruce instantly replies, "Our allowance, Jenny makes five bucks a week and I make 10 bucks a week. That's about 60 bucks a month and that should do us just fine." Mr. Smith is impressed Bruce has put so much thought into this. 'Well Bruce, it seems like you have everything figured out. I just have one more question. What will you do if the two of you should have little children of your own?" Bruce just shrugs his shoulders and says, "Well, we've been lucky so far." Mr. Smith no longer thinks the little s--t is adorable.

Hopefully the 600 siblings dont bang into meet each other...

do u strategise that way? expensive and time consuming project to move house???

HI Besides seating a child on child seat or booster seat, one can also use an approved adjustable seat beat. Anyone knows what kind of seat beat adjuster is approved? Can't seems to find it on TP website.

Little Johnny saw his daddy's car pass by the school playground and drove into the woods, he feel curious and ran after his daddy car to find him, he saw daddy with Aunt Jane in a passionate embrace. Little Johnny found this so exciting that he could hardly contain himself , he quickly rush home to tell his Mother. Mummy, just now...I was at the playground and I saw daddy's car drove into the woods with Aunt Jane. I went there to look for them, and I saw daddy was giving Aunt Jane a big kiss, then he helped her take off her red skirt, then Aunt Jane helped daddy to take off his black pants, then Aunt Jane..... At this point, little johnny mother was busy cooking and said, good boy Johnny, this is such an interesting story, can you save the rest of your story for our dinner time, let us see what funny look on daddy's face when you tell all of us tonight. At the dinner table that evening, Mummy whisper into little Johnny ear and reminds him to repeat his story in the afternoon, little Johnny excitedly started his story. Hello, every one, I would like to tell you a story, I was at the playground and I saw daddy's car drove into the woods with Aunt Jane. I went there to look for them, and I saw daddy was giving Aunt Jane a big kiss, then he helped her take off her red skirt, then Aunt Jane helped daddy to take off his black pants, then Aunt Jane

Hi Bro & sister, Anybody know of any children bowling at Singapore,my 2+yrs son is mad about the game,use to bring him to yishun "time zone" but its under maintenance for ages,the one at downtown bowling is also down since Chinese New Year,Wanted to bring him to play as his sick recently,hope it would cheer him up, anybody can share any location?Thanks God bless you.

Looking at the few threads on the money not enough, slow life, childcare and kids education etc. As a parent in Singapore, we have extra worries for the children future starting from the day they were born. Some even go to the extent of worrying about what they can afford even after the kids are 30 and married. Spoken to a few relatives in SG & MY over CNY, may young parents started to plan to the extent getting condo for EACH of the children. Comments like "how to have more children? 1 more children mean must buy 1 more condo!!", another cousin in KL said the same thing! imaging apartment in KL can also goes to RM$1.5 million each at today market. It didn't surprise me as many friends and relative give condo give condo as their son/daughter wedding gift (i dun mind to be the groom on the receiving end ). DO you really plan so far for your kids? are we overly concern or was it the traditional chinese culture?

Lets wait and see. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the son of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, said Thursday that he does not think that his children will enter politics. "They will have to decide but if you ask me now I think the odds are not on it," he told the Davos meeting of business and political elite. "It's a different generation, it's a new world, there are so many opportunities in Singapore," said Lee. Lee, who has four children, took office as the island state's third prime minister in 2004. His father led Singapore to political independence and economic prosperity during a 31-year run until 1990 as prime minister, and remained in cabinet under his son until last year. Asked what it was like living under his father's shadow, Lee said: "Well, I don't know. I've never not had it. It's tough enough, but you have to live with it." Lee said his illustrious father "had expectations, but he left me to do my own thing. He did not push me into this, and neither would it have worked had he done so." The elder Lee announced his departure from cabinet shortly after the ruling People's Action Party polled its worst results in the 2011 elections. The party lost an unprecedented six seats out of the 87 at stake and its share of the vote fell to an all-time low of 60 percent from nearly 67 percent in the previous election in 2006. http://news.xin.msn.com/en/regional/articl...umentid=5810988

who are below 20 year old, can they speak or understand your dialect? Or they totally lose their mother tongue Liao?

For those bros who have children, no matter they are still kids or already teens today, there is something they have said or done that made our day as parent.... and also things we hope they will do / say to warm our heart. When my boys were young, the birthday or father day cards they DIY always made me feel very very good....

‎ 'tis end of year, traditionally, a time for drinking and making merry. however, for some children, there's no joy to be had, so i would like to appeal for donations for Singapore Children's Society's fund-raising project, which "helps protect and nurture children and youth of all races and religions, especially those who are abused, neglected, and/or from dysfunctional familities". Can donate as a forum and get MCF logo onto a pixel for a paltry min of only $500! Get ur employer, group of friends, team, gang, cult, etc to donate $500 to have ur logo on a pixel of the heart: http://www.pixelheart.org.sg/

Singaporeans feel (rightly so) that each succeeding generation should enjoy a better lifestyle as the economy grows. Instead, young couples are getting smaller flats in further-flung areas with fewer amenities, even as the quality of flats has risen. Small and limited land size could be part of the reasons for this. If for spg's limited land size, we need 6m pple to support the economy which in turn supports the survival and living standard of the same 6m, how many more pple we need to maintain both? If we increase the populaiton to 8m, we need an economy to feed the additional 2m added to the original 6m.... is it a case of the dog chasing its own tail? or the add'l 2m is needed to increase the wealth of the 1%? while the size of the 99% increases but the standard of living of them decrease..... the 1% gains and increases the size of their wealth at the expense of the decline of the well being of the 99% (work harder but getting less in return) I am no econmomist and therefore have no answer. Is the vital link in changing the 99:1 to say 75:25 (ie reducing the GAP) a formula / policies which distribute wealth in a more equitable way? Do we want to see MRT trains and buses filled to the roof and the roads are used by only a few S500, 750, Ferraris etc? There are some dramatisations here, but what we will see in the near future may not be too far from it. Or is it a case of "It cant be helped".... maybe. http://imcmsimages.mediacorp.sg/CMSFileser.../1811PPP064.pdf

The No. 1 mistake parents of teens make ANTHONY E. WOLF | Columnist profile | E-mail From Friday's Globe and Mail Published Thursday, Nov. 03, 2011 3:24PM EDTLast updated Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 9:00AM ESTcomments Email Tweet Print Decrease text size Increase text size The number-one day-to-day mistake parents make is that they don

From Yahoo News: Local university and junior college students are feeling the heat from foreign students for coveted spots at local universities. They were reacting to the news last week that international students make up 18 per cent of the total undergraduate intake in Singapore's universities for the academic year 2011. The proportion, however, appears to differ across faculties. Foreign students make up a mere one per cent in Medicine and Law courses, but the figure could go as high as 27 per cent in Science and Engineering. Ng Ding Neng, 23, who is currently studying in Nanyang Technological University's School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (Mathematics and Economics), said international students form around a quarter of his course, and most are from China. In a written reply to MP Ang Wei Neng's queries in Parliament last Friday regarding the foreign student intake in universities, Minister of Education Heng Swee Keat explained that the exceptionally-high intake for Science and Engineering courses is attributed to the fact that they produce much-needed manpower in sustaining key industries but are "less popular with talented Singaporeans", reported Channel NewsAsia. Heng also highlighted that majority of the international students are on the Tuition Grant scheme, which helps to defray their fees. Moreover, they are tied to a bond that requires them to work in Singapore for three years. 25-year-old Farhan Hamid from NUS told Yahoo! Singapore that this generates a double problem, because not only do they take up spaces in universities here, they are also taking up job opportunities for fresh graduates. Another NTU student, Vera Lau Shi Min, 18, said the presence of foreigners drives up the bell-curve and forces local students to step-up and match the standards, or get a lower grade. "As local students, we see our foreign peers as tough competition, which makes us frustrated instead of being a source of motivation. That's because our GPA depends on a bell-curve, hurting our grades as a result," the first-year NTU Sport Science and Management student proclaimed. But is help on the way? In his National Day Rally speech in August, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong assured that the government will set aside more places for Singaporeans in universities here and that the foreign enrollment (in absolute numbers) will be capped at present levels. As such, it's expected the proportion of foreign students in local universities will eventually shrink, easing the unhappiness expressed by some who felt it is no longer "Singaporeans first" when it comes to places at local universities. In fact, the percentage of foreign undergraduate intake was slightly higher at 20 per cent from the year 1999 to 2006, according to NUS Professor Dr. Loy Hui Chieh, who gathered information from the Education Statistics Digest Online. In 1997, it was only 10 per cent. Data from 2007 to 2010 are not readily available online. But apart from competition in the classroom, do Singaporean students generally welcome their foreign counterparts in campus life? Foo Jiahui from Nanyang Business School said that having foreigners definitely adds colour to campus life and makes it interesting to mix around with people from different nationalities. Chua Khoon Wee, on the other hand, claimed that interaction between foreign and local students is limited, and foreigners are usually either alone or in their own groups, though there are exceptions. As for local students taking their A' Level examinations in two weeks' time, they are already feeling the intense pressure, as many compete for a limited number of places in universities here. Liu Ting Ting, 18, from Nanyang Junior College, is one of them. "I sincerely hope that the universities could put us students (taking Cambridge paper) as priority over the international students, simply because our mode of testing has proven to be more demanding than SATs and IB papers, and that competition is already tough within us as we compete for our As and Bs," she told Yahoo! Singapore. But 17-year-old ASEAN scholar Ng Zhan Ming from Malaysia urged Singaporeans to be confident about facing competition for university places. "Singaporeans should be happy that these foreigners are actually looking towards Singapore as a premier education hub, and how can Singapore who keeps wanting to 'increase its education standards' not accept more foreign students who might be more academically-inclined?" he questioned. "The universities are already being very strict on foreigners due to political and social pressure," said the Raffles Institution (Junior College) student who scored 10 A1s for his O' Level examinations last year. ============== And from one Singaporean called Desmond: My wife (then-gf) had problem paying school fees during polytechnic times, despite holding two part time jobs. Her dad was sick and not working. Her mum was surviving on $800 a month doing dish washing jobs, and supporting her younger sister who was still schooling. The money earned by the family were mostly used for her poly fees, her sister's fees, the house loan as her dad was self employed with no CPF, etc, leaving them with no savings. Once, my wife had problem paying her fees. She approached for financial help and was rejected. The poly's head approached her reminding her about the fees. She related her situation to the head hoping for some empathy. Shockingly, she was told that they couldnt help and advised her to take up more jobs despite knowing she was already on 2 part time jobs! The point is, aren't those money used for these foreigners be better off helping one of our own?

Mum's the word on smarter children Published on Sep 21, 2011 Purchase this article for republication Buy SPH photos THE announcement of my engagement to a Caucasian surprised many who had accepted my status of being 'on the shelf' ('A PhD's fine, but what about love and babies?'; Sept 6). It is my PhD that is currently on the shelf as after more than 10 years as a full-time mother, it is almost impossible to return to academia. Many intelligent Singapore women will recognise this problem: most Singapore men are not inclined to marry women they consider to be cleverer. I remember the look of one man who chatted me up after I had made a witty remark at a lecture. When I told him I was (then) a master's degree student he - literally - turned away. Spot the difference: My husband (who holds a Bachelor of Science degree), tells people he is clever enough to have married me. Studies have shown consistently that a child's educational attainment correlates with that of his mother's. My son's IQ is significantly higher than that of either of his parents. (I am convinced that 11 months of breast-feeding also helped.) I might have opted out of a career where I could inspire many young people on to their own doctorates, but my son has also benefited much from our discussions on the scientific method, statistics in research, Descartes, splitting an infinitive (and atom), and so on. He is so far ahead of his cohort that he has skipped one year in Maths and is being 'extended' in other subjects within his normal classes. My points are:

After a year-long investigation by PETA Asia-Pacific and the National Bureau of Investigations, police have now charged a Philippine couple with cruelty to animals and other crimes related to producing a series of pornographic videos in which young girls torture and kill animals. Faced with the charges, suspects Dorma and Vic Ridon have fled. Warrants have been issued for them. WARNING: Graphic descriptions follow. The "crush" videos that the Ridons are believed to have produced show scantily clad 12-year-old girls as they stomp on live animals, a rabbit as he or she is skinned alive, other rabbits as they scream while their ears are cut off and they are set on fire, a dog as he or she is burned with a clothes iron, and a monkey who was repeatedly hit in the eye with the sharp end of a stiletto heel. There is more, including puppies crushed until they vomited their own internal organs. A bill currently in the Philippine Senate would criminalize the sale of such "crush videos," already illegal in the U.S. and other countries. PETA Asia-Pacific is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of Dorma and Vic Ridon. Anyone with information on the couple can e-mail [email protected] and we will pass it along. You can also make a donation to PETA Asia-Pacific to help the group fight cruelty to animals in this case as well as in many others. Written by Michelle Sherrow Posted by PETA PETA.ORG this is inhumane...

Hi all, Have anyone here not sending children to attend school but choose to coach them personally at home? Also, to prepare them eventually for O level and A level. What are the pros and cons? Assuming at least one of the parent not working and is able to attend to the children education.. Thank you very much. Regards,

Keeping little ones facing rearward and in their infant seats well past their first birthday, and perhaps into toddlerdom, will help keep them safe and sound. The conventional advice was that you should transition kids into a forward-facing seat at just one year. But based on new research and updated recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the new recommendation is that parents should keep toddlers in rear-facing car seats until age 2 or until they reach the maximum height and weight for their seat. The decision follows a 2007 study from the journal, Injury Prevention, that first suggested rear-facing seats for children under the age of 2 bring a 75-percent lower chance of death or severe injury compared to front-facing seats. "A rear-facing child safety seat does a better job of supporting the head, neck and spine of infants and toddlers in a crash, because it distributes the force of the collision over the entire body," said Dr. Dennis Durbin, the lead author of the policy paper. According to Durbin, parents should wait until a child has fully outgrown the rear-facing seat before placing him or her in the booster seat. Depending on the child's relative size, some parents might want to make the transition to forward-facing seats before 2 years old, while others might wait even longer. Children should ride in a booster seat until they are 4'-9" tall and between 8 and 12 years of age, recommends the APP. In addition, kids should always ride in the back seat until they are at least 13 years old, and under no situation should a baby or child seat be placed in the front seat.

just a question if decide to have the 18month booster for DPT/SI other than polyclinic, how much does a regular GP charges the last time at polyclinic, kid being treated like a piece of meat thanks

Raising a child in Singapore is not cheap. One of the reasons I am not considering a second one is simply I can't afford to. How much do you spend on your child per month?

after reading this http://www.mycarforum.com/index.php?showtopic=2656372 i getting very worried for my children's future in SGP whether the system can sustain future education, housing and jobs competitiveness amongst other nations. what you all thinking?