Friendships with local can't be bad right? Unless you never spend quality time with your kids since young, else they pick up from their family members more than their teacher and freinds at school. Lingo and school are just small part of it. Upbringing is right at home.

Kids have to learn useful stuff, I don't think learning math and science in BM will do any good. I prefer to retire in MY but kids should freely go to any place that provide the best oppurtunity to them. They have to decide which IC they want to keep by then.

If you don't mind me asking, when were you last in primary or secondary school? And are you talking about SRK/SMK (Sekolah Kebangsaan) or SRJK/SMJK (Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan) or SMP (Persendirian)?

If you were a product of the SK, SMKs in the 80s and early 90s like me... you are right. We turned out okay, effectively multi-lingual, good English and reasonable maths & science. But that's when the Chinese and Indian teachers were still around. When there were still non-Malay principals in SKs.

In the mid 80s to early 90s, entire generations of Chinese and Indian teachers retired (those who went to Teacher Training, rather than Maktab Perguruan...). They were replaced entirely by ustazs and ninjas. By the late 90s... you can hardly find a non-Malay teacher in any of the SKs. Only the La Salle, ACS, convent, Methodist schools etc still had non-Malay principals. By now... the teaching faculty is virtually fully mono-racial. 99% of the teachers in SKs can't speak a damn sentence in English (not the kind that normal people can understand anyway). Religion and race permeates all aspects of the SK, despite the fact that there's still 10-30% of students who are non-Muslim, non-Malay and have parents who do not consider themselves to be subservient to tuans.

The SJK Cina are better, not in small part to the donations of Chinese businesses and public... since the entire system of a thousand or so SJK schools in Malaysia receive more or less the same amount of govt ie. tax funding as a SINGLE mono-racial sekolah berasrama penuh or maktab MARA... Tax that barring PETRONAS, the Chinese pay 90% of (according to Mahathir, ya... I'm not making this shit up). The majority of the teachers are Chinese. Many are not very well trained, but they are aware that their job is to teach language, science and math, not indoctrinate or practice their religion or display their racial or linguistic 'maruah'.

The SJK Tamil are... sigh... I pity those guys. Rock and a hard place.

Congrats and welcome to the club. The company is supposed to give you the IPA (in principal approval) letter from MOM (ministry of manpower). You print this and enter SG (do note that you still need to fill up immigration white card). Once in SG, do medical check up if necessary, then follow the instructions on the IPA to schedule the completion of formalities to get your EP card issued by MOM.

Also, PM your contact number/details to MacKiddo and ask him to add you to "the list." There's about 20 of us who meet up fairly regularly to do BBQ's, TCSS, yumcha, etc etc.
PM yeahs4.1, this one is Boon Lay kaki and I think also looking for housemates.

Yes and no, I suppose. The company applies for a specific type of pass (WP, SPass, EP). In the application, the company can opt to tell MOM to "grant the lower pass if higher pass unsuccessful." Example the company could try to apply EP for employee, MOM might say eh EP cannot but I give SPass lah. But the company needs to initiate in the first place.
As a fresh grad, maybe not. As a degree holder with FIVE years experience like yourself, you should be looking at way higher than 3k which is like ... fresh grad pay
Half the taikors posting here like seantang, mackiddo, keelim, mercury are elites earning 15-25k+++ monthly. Don't assume that Malaysians are universally low paid in SG because of your ONE friend. Although I understand how you feel cos I am low paid bank clerk as well.

tats what he said, when i say I wana join them, they told me my gender don't fit their requirements. 

Risk and return.

SG private property is as close to risk free as you can get, with the sole risk factor being the govt not allowing foreigners and non-residents to buy.

For a salary man to dump RM500K into a business in Malaysia which he doesn't run on a daily basis, doesn't know the industry nor the players etc... all I can say is come talk to me. I can set you up as an investor in any number of businesses in Malaysia. Anything you want, I can set you up. Just bring the cash, and my associates will run the business profitably for you.