Malaysian time

When a party is scheduled to start at a certain time, when do you plan to arrive?

A few minutes before? On time? Between +/- 15 minutes? Only start to prepare to go out at the time the party starts?

These were the timing (in percentage) based on a true event:

- arrived before scheduled start time: 0%

- arrived on time: 0%

- arrived between 0 to 30 minutes of scheduled start time: 0%

- arrived between 30 to 60 minutes of scheduled start time: 33.3%

- arrived between 60 to 90 minutes of scheduled start time: 44.5%

- arrived between 90 to 120 minutes of scheduled start time: 22.2%

Pathetic, I know.

Punctuality is not a Malaysian's forte, sadly I have to admit. It's not something I am proud of as a Malaysian.

Many Malaysians simply do not respect other people's time. They expect others to be late, so they think it's okay to be late themselves.

It's this kind of mentality that causes these people to never progress to be a better person, the "since the others are doing so, I may as well" mentality. Never do they think of breaking out of the vicious cycle and stop degrading to a lower standard. All it takes is for one to lower the bar and these people will follow suit and lower themselves to that level.

Instead of striving for progression, these people strive for regression. >_<

Know what's worse? Most of these people do not have the courtesy to inform when they are running late, it's like it's their god-forsaken right to be late and all other people should just wait for them.

Hmm... actually, it's probably because they are not running late, as they planned to be late in the first place.

The mentality is just... gah, I can't understand.

Such blatant disregard of others' time, I hate it.