Kiasu

Kiasu-ism is a national behavorial phenomenon in my country. You can associate it with just about everyone in Singapore. Well, being a conformist like most of the rest, I cannot deny that I am Kiasu. Queuing up for Hello Kitty, buses, trains, food, Toto and what have you.

It transcends everyday people. (hint hint). Kiasuism is not a bad attitude to adopt, in fact, I strongly encourage it. It should be introduced in CME classes and pastorial care. It is an attitude to have to survive in this rat race. No one owes no one a living. He who seeks victory,wins. At this point, I am not making sense.

However, overdoing it might get you in places where you wished you like to keep it only on reel life. Creativity might be a better survival 'kit'. Instead of organizing vehicular racing, holding congregation for important people in the radius of 2000km(approx.) discussing important things or holding sports meet for young kids from elsewhere, we can be creative. Move on mate, what works for other people may not work for us.

We can for example, build a launching pad for commercial space flight, deliberately building an office on soft sand so that it tilts, a 700m skyscraper, declare a weeklong 'pot' day and the likes. These may draw attention too albeit in an unconventional manner. I must clarify these are but my humble, scientifically inaccurate somewhat (admittedly, brainless) suggestions.