Read that Philip jeyaratnam also filed for divorce with his wife …sad

Mummychia, thanks for your advice which is so useful as I’m gg Sutton as well. Guess gg to airport wd be the same way, very appreciative,

Hi, thanks all for the suggestions…is the limo bus ok to take with so much luggage.

Worried the time I we b gg is winter n we would he a lot of luggage to carry.

Also can someone tell me more abt the snow sledding thingy.

Hi, any idea on how much taxi fares we cost between the Inchon airport to Seoul?


Any freelance tour guide watsoever to recommend as I wd b going between 22 nd dec to 30 dec .

James, I fully agree with you and I will email you shortly.


I had been an affected parent of this B$%^ton Montessorri till early this month.

You are right, this school has always been increasing the school fees without any apparant improvement in any quality except for their chinese teachers.

The reasons provided by the school for increasing school fees are ridiculous. If I am not wrong, they quoted an increase in rental of the premises as a reason. A 90 percent increase had caused them to increase school fees. Dun tell me that they were operating at a loss every year before that. Also, the standard of the teachers there are appalling except for the chinese teacher whom they recruited overseas.

They advised us parents to revise with our kids school work at home in terms of writing and spelling.If i can do it myself after work, why shld i pay them monstrous amounts to teach my kid? Even their story books r just photostated and its so boring without any colours and the kids are made to bring home the books to read with their parents when they are clearly not taught well enough to do that.

The principal just emphasises doing work sheets after worksheets and pushing the kids along even when they are not ready. Once, my son showed me his writing book and he was taught a word twixt or something. As a local tertiary educated mum whom cant claim to know everything, I asked the teacher what did this word mean. She told me its like twitching yr eyes>Oh my gawd, when i went back to look at the meaning of this word, it was totally not what she had explained. I wonder what is the point of learning this word when the child or even teacher herself cant even explain to me what this word means.

When I told the teachers that i am a full time career woman and that i put my son there to study not to make me as a parent teach him so much at home. What is the point of sending your kid to school and you have to do so much at home. With the amounts that I am paying, I can jolly well buy my own materials and homeschool him myself.

Also, the playground was in such a bad shape and so tattered looking, I was discussing this with the other parents and they agreed. To my surprise, it was renovated early this year and after that, a price increase was looming in the background. True enough, they increased the fees. I have lost touch with how many times they have done so in recent years.

The school concert is another bug bear that I refuse to back down. Its a ridiculous amount of money to pay for a concert that is organised for them to make a profit. The premises they use is Ntuc Auditorium and the place is so huge and as what James had said, they dun allow the use of recording devices by parents not even to take pictures of our own kids and not for commercial uses. Sad to say, the standard of their own VCD recording is so poor and looks like a worse cousin of those VCDS bought in Johor or China. The sound quality is poor not to say and also we can see the heads bobbing up and down. Your guess is as good as mine. The heads are of the parents who happened to be standing infront of the camera. Why do they tell parents not to tape using their own devices? Its because they record it from such a far distance that incase any audience stand up,the images of their heads would be captured by the camera. What a joke!!!

Also,the chinese books they use in school had been in use for several years as my elder son had used them in another childcare many years. A parent had also told me that comparing the same set of books that her son used in another kindergarten earlier on, the same set costs more at this B.Montessori.

There are many other reasons which are too long to explain here and I hope that more parents would join James in this petition.

To clarify, I do not know James personally. I had read about this petition on asiaone and had decided to contact the writer at SPH to let me know where to find this petition.

i fully back you up, James and would email you soon.