Ah! I had forgotten that word. I had forgotten that urgency. I had forgotten the fear. Seriously in the one year in US ... that Singlish word had lost its role in my life.
Instead the fear has been replaced by a smile. The moment I used that word today ... it brought an instant smile on my face. And more so ... seeing that this word has a separate page dedicated to itself on wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiasu ... makes the smile broader :).