Homeschooling The Library at VivoCity Every few weeks you will find us at the Library at VivoCity Mall taking out the 15 books we are are allowed with our Library Card.
Moving to Singapore Trial by Fire - Helper Interviews I started all our interviews with: "We just moved to Singapore from Canada and have not hired a Helper before", in the hopes that it would excuse some of my blundering.
Moving to Singapore The Interviews have begun I've gone over to the dark side. I'm interviewing Helpers today.
Moving to Singapore Housekeeping and Helpers About 1 in 5 households in Singapore employ a Foreign Domestic Worker. The Worker - aka Helper - maid is considered derogatory - must live in your house, and you pay their salary, living and medical expenses.
Homeschooling Where Do We Put This Stuff? As the games were unpacked, they were stacked in a large unruly pile on top of a bookshelf in the hall.
Moving to Singapore The Help that's just confusing I was warned that people in Singapore are happy to help, but that as Expats we might need to ask for it, because "expats often want to do it themselves". I understand that a bit better now.
Moving to Singapore Book, Books, and where to put them Jonathan and I have always wanted to catalogue our books so we finally did. We are actually recording the official Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) number (like libraries use) for each of our books and are filing our entire household library by it.
Moving to Singapore Orientation Trip: Tour and condo viewings - Part 2 (P.S. I found this post in my saved drafts and so published it about 2 1/2 yrs over due; but I do think it was worth including). Day 2 in Singapore
Moving to Singapore May'19: Orientation Trip - Part 1 I haven't mentioned anything that happened before we actually came to Singapore, so here's a post about our Orientation to Singapore Trip - Day 1
Moving to Singapore Celebrity Status - They're looking at me It’s interesting being such so conspicuous. We are often the only westerners within sight.
Moving to Singapore Bus Woes - Day 4 Trying to get a sense of areas, we headed to Tiong Bahru for dinner. We took the bus as the Hawker Centre is about a 10 min walk from the MRT. Figuring out the bus route did not go well.
Moving to Singapore Pool Friends and Tiong Bahru - Day 3: Monday June 10, 2019 Tiong Bahru is considered a hip part of town with older walk-up condo, and some newer high rises. It’s full of shops, cafes, and bakeries with a bit of French feel.
Moving to Singapore Laundry - Day 3, Monday June 10, 2019 Today was wash day. Kitchen's aren't air conditioned here. There's always a door cutting off the main living space and the kitchen.
Moving to Singapore Getting around: Kids passes for the MRT - Day 2 - Sunday June 9, 2019 Our goal of the day was to figure out Mass Rail Transit (MRT) for the kids.
Moving to Singapore Hello Singapore - Day 1 - Saturday June 8, 2019 We finally made it to Singapore this morning. We missed our connecting flight in Hong Kong so we were delayed about 5 hours. We left Victoria at 1 pm on Thursday and arrived at our hotel at 7 am Saturday (4 pm Vancouver/Pacific Time).
