As part of an initiative to make the
city more favourable towards tourists, a series of state-of-the- art automated
public toilets were recently introduced at several tourist hot spots around KL
city.
 
These new public toilets came to
light not without some controversy. Some people like them, some people think
those money can be better spent somewhere else. At RM400,000 a pop, these
toilets are even more expensive than the houses most of us live in.

But hey, it’s not like the
authorities care anyway. The toilets have been built already and if you don’t
like them, you can go (shit) sit somewhere else.


Our country’s top officials are
obviously proud of these toilets. On the toilets’ opening ceremony, even our
Deputy Prime Minister came along in his sleek black limo to officiate the
opening.
When it comes to opening
ceremonies, people always like to perform a symbolic action to mark its opening.
Some people cut ribbons, others plant trees or hit gongs.
You gotta wonder, what symbolic
action our Deputy Prime Minister did to make the opening of these toilets
official? Did he urinate to officiate?


These toilets cost 20 cents to use.
In other words, they need at least 2 million people to piss in each of these
toilets just to breakeven financially.
There’s a coin slot by door for you
to put the money in. These are pretty similar to those soft drink vending
machines. Except with vending machines, you put in the coin in and stuff comes
out of it - for you.
With these
toilets, you put the coin in and stuff comes out of you. 


The inside of the public toilets
look mighty impressive. Unlike the public toilets we are used to, these ones are
extremely clean. They are so clean, they make our hawker food stalls look dirty.

Only in Malaysia can you find places
you shit cleaner than the places you eat. 


I mean, there’s even an aircond
inside the toilet! Finally, someone has acknowledged that chucking a shit is
actually pretty tough work…
The
most amusing of all, must be the warning signboard inside the RM400,000
toilet. 


There’s this symbol that says "No
Diving Allowed." 


Then there’s the standard "No Eating
and Drinking Allowed" 

I don’t know about you, but I’m not
sure about the kinda food they serve in public toilets. Chocolate cakes, anyone?

But one thing that caught my
attention though, was this warning. 


Heh.

The last thing you wanna happen when
you’re happily taking a dump, is for the door to automatically open and have the
busy crowd at Bukit Bintang catch an eyeful of you.
Doing this. 


That’d be kinda
awkward.