Penang 人

I don't know whether I am right or wrong.

Since after I came back to penang to work (about 3 years ago), I was really shock with the standard of Penangites nowadays. Not saying all of us. But majority of us (including the young ones).

The mentality of Kiasu is one of the things which I kinda relate Penangites nowadays (like Singaporean). But the thing is, our standard of living and knowledge is not any better.

I used to boast about Penangites had the best attitude (when I was working in other states). But now, I think I had just make a big bloody mistake.

If you are doing business in Penang, you will find out that, a lot of Penangites are very stingy.Why?They ask around prices, they do have their own budget, but they still push around prices. It seems like there is no limit to this.

The idea of having more (in quantity), bigger (in size) and in a very cheap price.Oh ya, also they want good quality. If majority of Penangites are like that, how the hell we are going to make our commercial area to grow? That's why our shopping mall keeps on opening and closing or left unmanaged.

Do you notice that, when you go to any shopping mall in Penang, you can't really see any people buying (from the plastic bags they are carrying, mostly are empty handed). More or less they are just window shopping, and causing a lot of unnecessary traffic jam.

If these attitude is not going to change, one day, Penang will suffer like those undeveloped states as nobody is willing to spend. And since we are emphasizing about Penang, do you know that a few years back we are already drop to the 3rd largest city in Malaysia (used to be 2nd, now Johor is the 2nd). So what really happened?

Penangites, Wake up! Do something. Stop being CHEAP!