TOILETS

Just three days ago (Nov 19), the world celebrated the World Toilet Day to create awareness among the people on the importance of keeping the toilets speck and clean. Although our country is now more than 50 years old, however the mentality of certain people remain very low when comes to cleanliness and hygiene in the toilets.
Generally, our toilets in the shops, restaurants, airports and public places are still dirty, wet and smelly, while some toilets do not have proper water supply while the flush does not function at all.
To me, it takes two to tango, as the adage says. One party responsible is the toilet user who takes for granted that someone will do the cleaning after he finishes his "business" so he will do his business anyway he likes it. Of course the  other party responsible is the toilet owner who is totally "blind" to see whether his toilet is clean or otherwise.
Next year is the Visit Malaysia Year and a lot of tourists are expected to visit our country. And i believe that our toilets will not become any cleaner except for those which are always clean all this while.          
May be it is high time that the local councils make a special by-law to set special teams or engage outside parties to do the cleaning service for such toilets in town and then to charge them for such services since "the owners do not have the time and energy" to clean them . Then at least our toilets will be cleaner, shinier and smell better.    

NAJIB'S FIRST ANNIVERSARY

Prime Minister Dato' Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak has just completed his first anniversary in office and there are rave reviews of his style of premiership and compounded with the 68% rating by malaysians in favour of him, it augurs well for him to the people's PM. He has brought much joys and relief to many people, including civil servants, some who have never been promoted in all their years of service, something which the relevant authorities and leaders should have done long, long time ago. Sometimes, there were just too many slogans to project one's credibility and excellence as the captain of the ship, but the welfare of the crew members who tirelessly contributed to the ship's smooth sailing was always overlooked. And in the case of civil servants, many of them retire at the same posts and grades they first joined the service. Some remained status quo at the same post for over 20 years although they have no disciplinary problems and have performed well. They can't voice it out too, as they might smear the good name of their bosses. So what say you?