Competition amongst tuition centres

We're almost midway into December. It is a time when parents and students contemplate academic plans for the coming year, and tuition centres are advertising aggressively for their 2009 classes. Already, I have received flyers at my door from several tuition centres. Some of them boast teachers from top schools like Raffles Girls or Catholic High. The banners have been popping up around my neighbourhood as well. Each advertising for tuition classes.

On Wednesday, I noticed that 2 flyers have been pasted in the lift lobby of my flat. The kind of flyers that have little phone numbers at the bottom you can peel off. When I came back from lunch one hour later, one of the flyers has been ripped off. And I doubt it's because of over-enthusiastic response! At least they have one left, I thought to myself. (Just in case you are wondering, no, I didn't do it!)

Today morning, I exited the lift, and the remaining flyer was gone too (again, I didn't do it!). I was initially inclined to think that it was removed by the cleaners from town council. But when I looked up and saw another outdated notice still intact, I highly doubted that the tuition advertisements were removed by the cleaners!

There are at least 5 tuition centres in the immediate vicinity of my block. So yup...tis the season when competition is high!