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THAT is my point! You're talking about people who cannot switch?? I am that 'people' who you assume cannot do that because YOU cannot do that. OF COURSE i take offense! i went to neighbourhood schools all my life, i didn't even go to JC, went to Pre-U, my father is a taxi driver, my mother is a hous...

Thanks, yes i think we're just going to do it when get to Singapore. Our marriage cert is in English so no worries there. Not sure if they need medical records or anything, do you know? alot of countries require that but then those countries also pay for health care so i'm not sure if we need to get...

I am 4th generation Singaporean. I speak 5 languages, read and write 3. My great granparents only spoke 2 languages and picked up stuff along the way, my grandparents speak 3 and my parents speak 4. Please do not tell me that I am so different from all of the rest of my fellow singaporeans. I went t...

Singlish IS a regional dialect, Malaysians speak it too but they call it Manglish (Malaysian-English). There are dialects in every country not just the developing world..... every country, every region has its 'own' differences, i didn't mention any other european countries because Flemish came to m...

Ah, but i didn't say that it is dominant, i said IF it is dominant it will stand the test of time....and that only time will tell. And i didn't call it a language, i called it a dialect, which is what it is. The belgians still speak flemish, the latin americans speak spanglish (mixture of spanish an...

That's the point isn't it? If each of us decide that our comfort is more important than teaching our children that we're all equal...what's the point of a global economy? Just because you're indian or french doesn't mean that if your kids play with people of their own 'kind' their lives will be bett...

Wow! Talk about opening a can of worms. Languages evolve over time, the root of most indo-european languages was latin, that was what the scholars learnt but at home, each ethnic region spoke its own variation and hence we now have the cultural diversity that is Europe. Its the same with Sino-Tibeta...

I'm sorry, maybe its just me, but i find your remark that you want to be around other indians so your daughter has kids to play with a little offensive. I grew up in singapore and have friends of all races, why would you feel that your daughter should only play with other indians? Shouldn't you be e...

Thanks! That helped. We're in Sweden. My husband does freelance web design so his pay is not consistent and he doesn't have an employer .... do they make concessions for that or are they going to deny him? We are going to be starting our own company in Singapore so how does that play into the applic...

My husband and I are moving back to Singapore and I noticed that the PR forms mention wife, not spouse...... is it harder for men married to Singapore citizens to get PR? Does anyone know what the requirements are...I couldn't find any info online.... I really don't want to move back and then be den...