DKWhy, you may not agree with Janet - different strokes for different folks… But your post borders on a personal attack, is hurtful and is totally uncalled for.


Though this forum is called a KS forum, the group of 2012 PSLE parents have actually been giving moral support to each other throughout the whole of this year and many of them selflessly sharing their tips and experiences.

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MMM:

After I have sold my property and refunded the CPF used to my CPF account, can I re-use the savings to buy another private property or redeem another housing loan with my CPF?


A: Yes, If you are below age 55, you can use the savings and the amount refunded in your Ordinary Account to buy another private property or redeem another housing loan.

If you are aged 55 and above, the CPF refund will be credited to your Retirement Account. If you intend to buy another property or redeem another housing loan, you can use the savings in your Ordinary Account and the savings in excess of the required Minimum Sum cash component in your Retirement Account (excluding interest earned) to do so. Please click here for the applicable Minimum Sum cash component for different cohorts of members aged above 55.

Extracted this from CPF website.... Does min sum only apply to those aged 55 years and above???? So if we are below, we don't have to keep min sum????

Have to keep half the min sum(ie the cash component) in ordinary + special accounts

http://mycpf.cpf.gov.sg/CPF/my-cpf/buy-house/BH5.htm

shinri:

ROFL.... Attempt #1: Failed.. lol

No taste haha.
Added too little water, put ingredients first before bee hoon and seasoning too little lol.
DH took 1 mouthful and exclaimed \"Wah liao!\"

I used this recipe when I started frying.
http://www.noobcook.com/fried-bee-hoon/

HTH.

shinri:

linden2000:

Hi. Adding water will ensure the seasoning is even throughout beehoon. Otherwise you get patches of it on the beehoon. Fry the beehoon until the moisture disappears. For ingredients like egg, can fry separately n put aside and add after the beehoon is dry.

I usually add chicken broth instead of water but since broth already contains salt, need to season to taste depending on how salty you like your food.

Oh so before I fry the bee hoon, need to boil it in water with the required seasoning?
And then drain the water, add ingredients and fry until bee hoon dry?

Before frying, need to soak hard beehoon from the packet in water for about half hour. Then drain away this water.

When frying, add water and seasoning then fry. No need to drain the water, after frying for a while bee hoon will dry up. Then add ingredients after beehoon is dried up. Usually I fry ingredients earlier separately and just add on to beehoon.

shinri:

Oh usually I buy the bee hoon for breakfast, the start of another working day.

Don't think I'll go to other places to buy since not near my office..

My colleague shared that need to cut the bee hoon before cooking otherwise when stirring, the ingredients will all fall to the bottom instead of being embedded inside the bee hoon.

@osim
Eh, pouring sauce into the bee hoon will not make it too wet?
I thinking of just frying it with oil, garlic and just the ingredients and of course wee bit of seasoning as well.

Hi. Adding water will ensure the seasoning is even throughout beehoon. Otherwise you get patches of it on the beehoon. Fry the beehoon until the moisture disappears. For ingredients like egg, can fry separately n put aside and add after the beehoon is dry.

I usually add chicken broth instead of water but since broth already contains salt, need to season to taste depending on how salty you like your food.

wonderm:

Strparent:

errr, paiseh so many good long post on this thread, but pardon me, can I stray back on-topic on pr sch maths - esp. on setting questions beyond the standard syllabus...?


I have always try to let my kids learn on their own, from sch, from friends, from teachers, but never from tutors on maths.

today I look at my DD's maths SA1 paper, which she got zero for a 5-mark question. At first glance, I blew up and questioned on how she could not get it even partially right ? 5 marks wor, why ? no time ? nervous ? careless ? cant remember formula / method ?

the question looked straight forward enough, so I asked her to take a paper and started to show her how to solve it. After 10sec, I was stumped. LOL. So I tiam tiam, act cool a bit, ask my DS to come over ( incidentally he is in Sec2 and was always fantastic in maths ). Guess what ? It took him 15mins of pondering, writing and cancelling, before he eventually started to solve the question. But the workings were like so messy and mixed up, so I asked him to explain to his sister. He tried to explain, but DD catch no ball. In the meantime, I was trying to comprehend his work, and figured out how the solution was derived.
But I know there and then, that DD never learnt this in sch, it looks like something DS do in Maths Olympiad during his P5/P6 days.

Now I am in agreement with most parents about no unnecessary pressure or workload, no tuition, etc, but now I noted that the schools DO set questions beyond the syllabus, which is ridiculous. If you taught it, fine - of course some of her classmates get full marks for the paper.

So, yes, MOE should note this and if you want to set the standards higher, then make sure the schools teach the students as well, and not depend or expect all to learn them elsewhere.

The question which I paiseh to say, had me stumped until DS showed me the solution.
It looked to me initially like some parameters is lacking :oops:

Alan took 1/2 hr to walk from Town A to Town B at a constant speed.
Eric took 3/4 hr to walk from Town B to Town A at a constant speed.
Both started at 2.20pm.
a) at what time did Alan and Eric pass each other along the way ?
b) at the precise time when Alan reached Town B, Steven started walking from Town A to Town B at the same constant speed as Alan. At what time, did Steven and Eric meet ?

maybe it's just me, but share with me , if you think it is STANDARD primary sch maths ?

Is the answer 2.56pm?

Thanks for sharing. This is a very interesting question. If one were to use algebra (Sec level maths) to solve, it is actually much more lengthy and less elegant than using model method.

Which level is your DD in? It is indeed a challenging question, in my opinion it takes a P5 or P6 student who is strong in maths to be able to do it during exam condition. I don't think it requires the learning of any special method though.

If there was only 1 or 2 such questions in the paper, it is not a bad thing, it challenges those who are good in maths, and really shows how a seemingly difficult or impossible question can be very easily solved by drawing a simple model. If we expect the teacher to have given similar questions in class before the test, it really becomes pointless and makes learning maths much more painful as the children would think they need to remember the methods for all different kinds of questions.

If one looks through the papers of those schools that set very tough Maths papers, one would notice that it is not just 1 or 2 of such questions and that is precisely what parents are talking about. This is typically a paper 2 question comprising 5 marks. The child has 100 minutes to complete 18 questions in Paper 2 (total 60 marks). Assuming 10 mins to check paper, the child is left with 90 mins to do the paper. Based on marks allocation, the child only has about 7.5 mins to do this 5-mark question. Other than the tough questions, other 'easier' questions can also be tedious and time-consuming. The child who ends up being discouraged and worn down by the tough questions may not even have time to check or even finish the paper.

Moreover for these 'speed' questions, there are many curveballs that are thrown at the children, for instance one person started later than the other person, they meet at a certain point between the towns or at a certain timing after traveling some fraction of the journey, etc, etc. No offence but this question may actually already be quite benign compared to others.

Maybe for psle, it really is 1 or 2 of such questions but we parents are not certain since we only have the questions by topic in the published questions book.

Chenonceau:

Therefore, parents need to pay tuition centres to mark, GRADE, and comment on our children's compos. Since last year, I have to re-correct my son's compos from exams and class practices. His teacher makes too many spelling and grammar mistakes... misses out other mistakes... and gives few comments. How to learn from school like that.

I go through my son's marked class compos too because his teacher makes grammatical mistakes and misses out his real mistakes. After going through, will point out to him those that were marked wrongly and also ask him to note his real mistakes.

Toys r us also has Crayola.


At 18 mths, best to supervise because the child may break the crayon into smaller pieces and put a small piece into mouth. Can be a choking hazard.

Strparent:

Alan took 1/2 hr to walk from Town A to Town B at a constant speed.
Eric took 3/4 hr to walk from Town B to Town A at a constant speed.
Both started at 2.20pm.
a) at what time did Alan and Eric pass each other along the way ?
b) at the precise time when Alan reached Town B, Steven started walking from Town A to Town B at the same constant speed as Alan. At what time, did Steven and Eric meet ?

Alternative method (similar to your dd teacher's method):

a) Let distance between Town A and B be D.
Alan's speed = D/1/2 = 2D
Eric's speed = D/3/4 = 4/3D
Combined speed = 10/3D
Time taken to meet = Distance/combined speed
= D/(10/3D) = 3/10 hr = 18min
So they met 18mins after 2.20pm at 2.38pm

b) When Alan reached Town B, Eric had traveled 30/45 or 2/3 of journey, so left 1/3 of journey.
Applying same method as in (a) but using 1/3D instead of D,
time taken to meet = 1/3 x 18 = 6min
Steven started at 2.20pm + 30 min = 2.50pm
So they met 6mins after 2.50pm at 2.56pm.

Hope this helps.