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I have a brand new in box musical cot toy from Taf Toy for sale. Usual price: sgd55 Selling at: sgd49 neg Please pm or email me at [email protected] Collection in Jurong West, Alexandra, Bukit Merah, Vivo City, Harbourfront, Great World City, United Square (Saturdays), Katong (Sundays)...

Tam, thanks. I will put in more work on reading chinese books Just that at times I get frustrated telling them words they dont know cos I fear it is so interrupted that they may not know the meaning of the story already. re: Body checkup: Where do you guys go for full body checkup? I...

snowball, my kids need repetition too but they are lazy.. cannot take it lol My boy used to practise for 3-4 hours when he was 5-6 years old. Last year he average around 3 hours. Nowadays, he gotta cope with more academic homework and at P2 there will be streaming at CA2. I want to...

snowball, I sent my 2 older ones to cma abacus when they were young. But they hate the repetitiveness so I stop after a term. I sent them to mpm instead. MPM is really quite good in that it does not just teach the mathematical operations but involve lots of pattern recognition, IQ related...

tam, 50 pages! That's really a lot, hope they are given a few days to finish that. My boy is still very busy with his violin practises daily, I will likely slow him down next year.... and really concentrate on studies. For now, I am trying to prepare him for harder stuff like...

hello ladies, hope all of you are doing well and all ready for CNY Tam, my elder 2 kids are now in P2 and P1 respectively. I always hear parents talk about homework onslaught in P3.... can you share with me roughly how much homework that is.... does all subjects have home work daily...

Hi, I have lots of flashcards of various sizes, (thickness 350gsm) for sale as my kids had outgrown the use of flashcards already. $30 for each 1000 pieces of A5 size. I should have other sizes like A4, close to A6 (nearly half of A5 which I used to write chinese words for...

tam, I like the kitchen. Though pink is not my fav color too. The kitchen wall is overlay with homogenous tiles? Very nice! Your girl has the exact same bed as S.

yawn, this competition has a few category. The junior category is for those below 12 years old. No other requirement but must choose 3 contrasting pieces. People plays pieces of varying difficulties... generally a concerto, sonata etc. Actually not really much requirement but definitely...

aa, ya I personally supervise his practise. Though he is willing to practise on his own, I felt its not time yet. You will know that its vvvv easy to develop bad habits and bad posture in violin. From the way you stand, how the violin is placed, direction, how your violin fingers is...

joy, no long term goal yet 'cos unless he wants to pursue violin as his career, I will not push for it. I believe it takes more than talent and hard work to excel and become a concert solo violinist and only time will tell whether he has that opportunity... other than that professional path...

yawn, mumusing, Is czerny the equivalent of etudes/studies (Wohlfahrt, Kayser, Sevcik etc) played in violin? I listened to some of the czerny op 599 played and found them to be very entertaining and melodious.. Just like the etudes S plays, each sounds like a song of phrases with variation...

mumusings, my boy also likes it gadgets.. but despite being IT professional, I do not like him to indulge in it. I believe strongly that the cons outweighs the benefits. I rather the kids be bored and find their means to entertain themselves without resorting to the electronic ways. For my...

aa, a minimum amount of time needs to be dedicated for focused practise. 2 hours a day is actually not that much... time just pass without us even noticing. He is with music school... not private teacher studio. If you look at the Trinity syllabus carefully, in terms of the pieces, Trinity...

sharon, he is p1 this year so think they are same age. abrsm requires g5 theory for g6 practical onwards. But not trinity. Personally, I make sure he progresses his abrsm theory to g5 by this year so that he can take either abrsm or trinity at any grade from now.