{"id":18586,"date":"2015-02-10T21:40:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T13:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=18586"},"modified":"2015-02-10T21:40:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T13:40:54","slug":"kiasu-and-the-paper-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=18586","title":{"rendered":"Kiasu and the Paper Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Last Friday there was news about parents\u2019 anxiety over the PSLE and that was the reason MOE decided to have actual past PSLE Exam Papers (four subjects) printed to\u00a0 give the anxious parents an idea of the PSLE standard. It also said the Papers would go on sale the next day (Saturday).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I mentally made a note to buy them on Tues (today). However, on Saturday, all the Papers sold out, island-wide! <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Why so kiasu<\/span>, I thought. The PSLE is in October \u2013no need to start practising the Papers so early.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This morning \u00a0I went to a big bookshop to ask about the Papers. They were out of stock! I asked about new stocks and the sales person said tomorrow coming. I quickly told him I wanted to reserve the 4 sets of Papers and to pre-pay for them. I was afraid they might all be snapped up before I arrived.\u00a0 He said cannot reserve but can leave contact number so the staff could inform me when the new batch of the Papers arrived. I wrote my contact on a piece of paper and saw him pin it among numerous pieces on the board. Wah, so many people also wanted to be informed!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I <strong>went home<\/strong>,<strong> \u00a0planning how I could be ready to dash out to the bookshop the moment I got the alert.\u00a0\u00a0 Then I realized I had been acting <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">kiasu<\/span> myself. Lol!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kiasu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18587\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kiasu-150x150.png\" alt=\"kiasu\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Paper Rush&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday there was news about parents\u2019 anxiety over the PSLE and that was the reason MOE decided to have actual past PSLE Exam Papers (four subjects) printed to\u00a0 give the anxious parents an idea of the PSLE standard. It also said the Papers would go on sale the next day (Saturday). I mentally made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=18586\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kiasu and the Paper Rush&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-18586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-kiasu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18588,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions\/18588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}