Critical commentaries on being LATE (unpunctual)

Malaysian Time

Late! as usual.

Malaysians are famous for being late. Is that true? Is that the innate attitude within most Malaysians? It's so sad to hear that. Unfortunately, it would be a 'yes'.


This phenomenon is happening everywhere anytime and it seems to be very normal in malaysia itself. Students attend classes late. Workers go to work late. Friends are late attending wedding dinner. Meeting starts late because some VIPs are late. In fact, events are not started punctually on time to wait for the arrivals of audiences/ VVIPs, who are apparently late for some sorts of reasons they may provide with.


'WHEN people turn up late for an event, sometimes even holding it up because they are the VIP guests, chances are the Malaysians in the crowd would simply take it in their stride and dismiss it as “Malaysian time”.
But a foreigner, having no idea what “Malaysian time” is, would probably be baffled and even annoyed with the general acceptance of tardiness in this country considering that the rule of thumb in many other parts of the world is that time is money. ' (Quote from Shantini S. )


People should have the ability to control their use of time. How they could arrange their time accordingly and set priority in task management. Unpunctuality causes loss of time and productivity. One party being late could cause so much loss in the other people's time. For instant, the unpunctuality of the bus services in Klang Valley would be a good example. Everyone in Malaysia knows that busses never come in time. 


How could this be solved?
It's probably only by  self realization, this problem may be solved. ^^
All of us are aware of this bad social behaviour but only our own determination could make a change in things happening right now. Weaknesses identified and discussed about but if there is no action its all zero. And also by everybody's effort to do it. Why do I say so? If one person has decided to be early in a function one day, but if being early results in waiting for the others, it's as the same meaningless. Let's try to influence people around us for better sake of the future. 


How could this behaviour be related to my project?
My project topic is about water. Water is just as time is. "Time is precious time is priceless."  If we don't grab it, we lose it. 
According to WWF Malaysia, our freshwater ecosystems are facing numerous threats ad challenges. Therefore they are promoting conservations and and integration projects to increase awareness. If we don't do something and grab it now as we still have time, we'll be losing them in no time! Malaysia is a developing country. About 70% of all available freshwater is used for agriculture. Yet because of inefficient irrigation systems, particularly in developing countries, just as Malaysia is, 60% of this water is lost to evaporation or is returned to rivers and groundwater aquifers.


Freshwater is perhaps the most crucial resource for humans and all other living creatures. There are many places in the world lacking access to water and they are using unsafe water. It is to remind us Malaysian while we still have fresh water, as the same to time, value them, use them wisely.