Sabah has little sense of the value of time.
We Sabahans have been consumed with admiration heaped upon us by non-Sabahans. I have heard too many times that our Sabah is the best, best in racial harmony, best in religious acceptance, best in environmental protection, the list goes on. While these may be true, we have stagnated and locked ourselves in an economic-development time capsule, drunk with these praises and oblivious to our pervasive rural/urban poverty and stunted economic growth. Why do I say this? Cos Sabahans have accepted them incompliantly as our fate, cos our politicians don’t consider them serious enough for them to raise hell in public, in Legislative Assembly and Parliament. It is as if we Sabahans are living in perpetual paradise bliss where time stands still, time is irrelevant, the time has no cost, time is not precious. Life goes on peacefully and slowly like a snail. Talking about time, I like to deal with 2 aspects of time that hardly exist in Sabah. Time certainty and time sensitivity.