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Schooling at Chinese Primary School in Sabah.

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If you know Chinese or even better be excelled in it, you are in advantage of getting employed and of course to demand for higher pay as it is a specialised skill.  I am lucky to get my daughter enrolled into a Chinese Primary School (SJKC) as parents, despite not having any basic in Chinese, are fighting for places to get their children to learn the language.  My daughter's class has about 40 students cramped in the room.  I remember when I was younger, there were quite limited number of non-Chinese students in the SJKC as parents probably think it would be more convenient to send their kids to school which use their mother-tongue language.  The then syllabus, especially Chinese, was quite simple and basic for non-Chinese to follow.  Fast forward 20 years, Primary 1 students would require to remember many words, the strokes counting, the pinyin (sound) etc. Some who could not cope and could not get help will probably stress out and wors...

Sabah Kota Kinabalu Wellness Confinement centre

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At this era whereby couples are living on their own, especially in the city,  they are indeed need help from someone to take care of the mother and child after the traumatising childbirth experience.  Unfortunately, not every couple has the privilege helper, mother or mother-in-law who can attend to the confinement needs due to several reason, including the availability of the help, experienced mothers have other commitment or just the bad relationship between two generations.   If paying more means happiness to new mother and child, a confinement center will serve another option for mothers to recuperate and "coping" with the arrival of bundle of joy.  The bundle of joy is not necessarily brings someone joy 24/7 as the baby also comes with several issues to deal with such as  newborn jaundice, colic, "insomnia", breastfeeding problem and etc.  Mother who had through labour also needs rest, aside from having to troubleshoot baby's ...