Just a few weeks ago, I attended a Buka Puasa Event organized by National Instruments. It was an annual event where they will host a product and innovation sharing session and then Buka Puasa when it’s time to Break Fast.

The problem is not the event. Although the agenda (Green Engineering) is boring, there is the most obvious bad attitude that Malaysians show during that day. The event was supposed to start Sharp at 3pm with some welcome and introduction speech followed by breaks and demo sessions until 7pm. At 3.30pm, the amount of people who showed up could be counted using our 10 fingers. A pathetic amount given that NI is a major Engineering support company and this event should attract and generate lots of ideas, questions and discussions among potential education organizations, potential business partners and engineers.

However, the event just went on without the full audience anyway and around 6.30pm, when it’s about time for the free buffet, the Hall suddenly become 90% full.

Shame on the Malaysian Culture!