SINGAPORE EXPATS FORUM
Singapore Expat Forum and Message Board for Expats in Singapore & Expatriates Relocating to Singapore

We are currently planning to return to Singapore in a couple of months. My son has been recently "blessed" with fixed braces, which need to be adjusted and maintained (rubber replacements) every 6 weeks. I am just wondering how easy / difficult and expensive it would be in Singapore to find an ortho...

Those numbers seem so surreal. I had mine processed in about 5 days when I applied about 3 years ago. I am not planning to come back to SG again, so I am wondering how long this will take now!

Hi, a close friend of mine has been drugged&raped few weeks ago and we are looking for a suitable therapist to help her deal through the aftermath. She has been previously to AWARE, but apparently they run with volunteers and the session was anything else than professional and counter productive (wh...

In the sense of leaving early, even before the diplomatic clause can be applied, anyone got experience with pre-finding a potential new tenant and trying to negotiate a lease transfer? I might actually have to leave a tad earlier and since our landlord is very nice to us, at least minimize the blow ...

I think my kids in the ESL stream are learning decently. Only thing that bothers me is that its hard to keep track of what they are doing since they are leaving all learning materials at school. The start of the school year was a tad messy, but I think they are slowly finding their pace...

My wife skin's doesn't seem to be happy with the constant sweating or perhaps its stress related, but she has been having terrible outbreaks of hives all over in the past two days. It goes and reappears on the go and its driving her crazy and she had never anything like that before. Can anyone recom...

We have moved to Singapore not so long ago and our kids will start in Dover school soon. My wife would however love to work a bit as well, but we are concerend what to do during the long holiday periods (e.g. 1 month in December!). How are you dealing with extended intl. school holidays in terms of ...

No I travel on a Czech passport on dont require a visa to enter Singapore, but I will of course for my second entry arrive with a no-return ticket and without the EP-card in my hand, so my main question is whether there will be some sort of stamp in my passport from the EPSC office to make sure I ca...

what does the location got to do with being indian or not...priority should be convenience :-| Exactly ... but some arrivals do like to stick with their own kind ... or want to be near their international schools.. Now I wonder if Nltham is Indian, to have such insight .. in all things India..... :...

So my EP got finally approved (took only 2 working days) and I am headed to SG in 2 weeks. I will be however also in a hurry to go back home one more time to finalize my moving arrangements and need want to make sure of a few technicalities... if I arrive on day X, I'll report my embarkment ID and e...

I joining the 'flat hunt' and will appreciate suggestions! Thanks upfront! General parameters: - Budget: 3000-3500 sgd from looking at . rates - I heard rents went a bit down? - Will work at Beach Road (Gateway), while our Intl. school is supposed to re-open around Serangoon MRT - priority is to kee...

Question of a slightly different nature! I am actually still in planning of my relocation and frankly I have no clue what to stuff into the container that I will have available. So I figured 'what the hell' and I am considering to stuff it up with wine. As far as I was able to find out, below 54 lit...

Well the choice of languages is simple - English is a must for SG and useful for the future, Germany may (or not) be a location in future after SG. Anyways, Swiss school is one of the cheapest ones, which is a consideration for self-payers. Dover was on my list, but they are full already and we'd be...

Are there any cheaper options? I am honestly right now running at 15mbps in Europe and thats all I need and what all of the providers in SG want to charge is what would get me covered for 6 months back at home. Dont really need the gigabit connection.... So whats the best simplest choice here? Also ...

Thanks everyone for their help. It seems its a go so far, though with pretty limited budget on the school selection. We will start with international school and then attempt to enroll to public school as soon as viable. So now we need to find the right IS. The issue now is that my kids actually spea...