Back in mid 2003, the environmental authority in this teenie-weenie city of Singapore plonked down about $4 million to upgrade the toilets all over the island, particularly those in the HDB coffee shops. About time too, as these filthy cubicles were usually dark, danky, stinky and grimy - one did not venture into such places unless one really needed to and even then, with the nose pinched shut!
For the next one year plus, there was a bustle of renovation work everywhere as coffee shops feverishly upgraded their restrooms - who would not with the government footing half the bill! The newfangled toilets came with no main door (great! - as one no longer had to touch that grimy germ-laden door handle anymore). They were clean and, for once, the toilet fittings did work, the flush did flush and there was even real toilet paper.
Fast foward to 2005, now. It's back to the dirty, old days again - the barely new toilets in most coffee shops are again becoming places to avoid at all costs. One should have realised that kopitiam owners will never bother about frequent and regular washing and maintenance of the toilets. They are only focused single-mindedly on collecting their rentals from the stall-holders. And do not even mention to them about getting a cleaner to wash and clean the place up!
The authority should ask for their money back and they need to clamp down fast on these errant coffees-shops. And fine them for not keeping their shops clean and hygienic. Perhaps, while we are it, get the Happy Toilet group of people to create the Dirty Toilet award - publicise and shame them widely and openly!
How are we ever going to progress to a first-world country with toilets in such a state?
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