These parents are so kiasu! School hasn't started yet for their Primary One children and they're already buying tons of assessment books.
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Originates from Singapore, Chinese Hokkien dialect. Means 'afraid to lose out', 'competitive to the point of doing anything just to win', 'cannot bear to lose'.
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being greedy.. very very greedy...
by Tristan Legolas September 10, 2004
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FOMO 2.0, which is about unhealthy or selfish fear and insufficiency. A Hokkien word for the oft-irrational fear of not getting enough or of losing out to others.
Members of the public in Singapore had to wait until February to get hold of the 2021 primary one math textbooks and workbooks, which is based on the new MOE syllabus, because a number of kiasu tuition center owners had called the bookstores in December to reserve dozens of these new titles, leaving zero copies for those who couldn’t buy them from school bookshops.
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