Puzzling Notice in Toilet

A common notice placed above the toilet bowl in Greece.



My question is, what about toilet paper?

Bad Toilet Manners

Yet again another encounter of bad toilet manners today. Here's a notice I've placed above the toilet bowl for the user.

Toilet Manners

This is a regular sight in the toilets of office building at level three of The Synergy, International Business Park (IBP) @ Jurong East.


Welcome to Singapore!

Here's where the civilized and the not so civilized stay together!

Could it be the user has forgotten to clear his stuff after doing business?

Unfortunately, this is not the worst of sights! There are days where the bowls are overflowing with waste spilling off.

Totally disgusting!

Wash Your Hands

An interesting sign at the washing
basin in a lavatory of KTP Hospital

Toilet Manners

Having seen the worst of human behaviors and the things within a flooded toilet bowl, it's only fitting that all office toilets should have the following sign ...


Here's another way of putting across the same message politely ...


This is found in a toilet of TheStrategy@IBP.

Toilets and Building Management

I work in an office at IBP. Recently, the management of the office building announced they will be upgrading the toilets, and that is supposed to be good news.

Over the last weekend, the contractors commenced work, starting from the floor I am working in. All the toilets of that floor (3 for males and 3 for females) are now closed for the upgrade and tenants are expected to go to other floors to do their toilet business for the next 6 weeks.

This floor-by-floor approach to renovating all the toilets for the building is to me an act of STUPIDITY. I have never seen such a BRAINLESS act in my entire life. Under normal circumstances, toilet renovations are usually done in the same area or segment for different floors at the same time so as to allow tenants of each floor to have at least one male and female toilet to use while the other toilets on the same floor are being renovated.

Obviously, it's too late for me to make any complain now as the work has already commenced, I guess what I can do, just for my own satisfaction, is to show some reactive responses by having the following notice pasted on all the doors of the toilets currently being upgraded.


I am fighting for a cause, hopefully to help increase the intelligence of the building management, not to do the same for the other floors!

Toilet Etiquette

While at the Raffles Clinic of OUB Centre this morning, I saw an interesting notice placed above the toilet bowl of the clinic's restroom.

Maybe I should put a sign like this at my workplace's toilet! (",)

Cultural Differences and Toilet Bowls

In the USA, it is a norm for toilet bowls to be covered after use. This is politeness performed with the next user in mind to indicate the bowl is fit for use and in order the next person may not faint at the smell,

In Asia, it is a norm for toilet bowls not to be covered after use. This is performed with the males in mind, so that reckless aiming may not stain the seater for the next user, and in order to reveal the condition before use.

In a place where the two cultures meet, however, different responses take place.

To the Asian, when a toilet bowl is covered, what immediately takes place is a feeling of distaste, and what comes to mind is a likely soiled and dirty toilet bowl hidden behind the cover, possibly containing unflushed waste or jammed-up materials, or spills of blood stains within. What comes next is therefore expectable; a move away to another bowl, or a flushing before lifting the cover, or the time for reality call.

To the American, when a toilet bowl is uncovered, it means a lack of manners, or an act of inconsideration for the next user, or worst, the shock of a seater cover spilled with urine and the content in the bowl unflushed.

Such are the cultural shocks we have to face in a world with cross cultural mix. If you have in mind a plan to live anywhere else other than your hometown, you must therefore be prepared and get accustomed to the new culture before you take the plunge.

Toilet Education

Squatting on Toilet Seats

An educational piece of art dedicated to people in Singapore ...
With compliments from the ... National Environment Agency (NEA)