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Memories of Smell - Sewerage
http://blogtoexpress.blogspot.co.nz/2012/02/memories-of-smell-sewerage.html
The "night soil" collector at the kampong in the 1960s.
This is the first of a series of "Memories of Smell" on "blog to express" to show the ways done in the past in Singapore for collection of sewerage in the kampongs in the 1960s.
Watching these photo credit by courtesy of National Archives of Singapore to share here the real things minus the smell...
I beg your pardon if it gives you the shivers and shout "yucky...oh my God"!!!
Thank goodness all these stuff...the brave men (I think they were all men who dared to do this job), sewerage collectors who manually disposed of our "night soil" daily from the homes and bring them to the sewerage treatment works in Ulu Pandan, Kim Chuan Road and Henderson Road (now the Tiong Bahru Park) have all disappeared.
The "night soil" workers on the truck in the 1970s.
Also gone were the trucks of "32-doors containers".
Alternatively, an outgoing tides acts like a modern sanitation, but an incoming one spreads disease-bearing filth and sewage into the kampong grounds. No proper drainage or sanitary systems.
Long, long ago in the 1950s, the metal containers were loaded onto carts without mechanisation.
Whatever goes in must go out, and somebody has to do the "dirty" work as his job...take a look at how the process goes:
The truck with containers of 32-doors (16-doors on each side) with standard design.
Modern sanitation system nowadays are odourless method, concealed system to dispose human waste...with a flush in the toilet.
Strange...people may refer to egestion of bodily wastes as "dirty" and call it "shit". Shit is an English word that is usually considered vulgar and profane in Modern English. There are many words of euphemism in the English language...or to call "a spade a spade"?
It is a part of digestion system of all living things (eg. birds, animals, insects, etc) other than human beings.
Zoologists will generally call "shit" as feces of mammals. Other words are: "Poop", "Dookie". "Scheisse". "Poo Poo". "Brownies".
Responsible dogs and cat owners bring along a plastic bag to dispose the "poo poo" when their pets for a walk outside the home.
iremember from memories of an incident in the office one day:
My former colleague (no name calling please) was attending to a member of the public to serve him. However, the customer was not satisfied and angrily shouted "SHIT", unconsciously to nobody in particular, appearing frustrated.
The Customer Service Officer was also annoyed and went away from the service counter after the customer left the office, to share with her colleagues to think aloud her pent-up feelings:
"Funny hor...how comes nowadays "shit" also come out from the mouth..."
Alamak...my face became "green" when I heard the conversation from another part of the office. If she had passed that "unwanted remark" in front of the customer, she would be inviting for a complaint for rudeness!
I cautioned my colleague to be careful before speaking. Not to forget the importance of polite service. The customers are always right!
That's a true story. Its my personal working experience and memories to share.
http://blogtoexpress.blogspot.co.nz/2012/02/memories-of-smell-sewerage.html
The "night soil" collector at the kampong in the 1960s.
This is the first of a series of "Memories of Smell" on "blog to express" to show the ways done in the past in Singapore for collection of sewerage in the kampongs in the 1960s.
Watching these photo credit by courtesy of National Archives of Singapore to share here the real things minus the smell...
I beg your pardon if it gives you the shivers and shout "yucky...oh my God"!!!
Thank goodness all these stuff...the brave men (I think they were all men who dared to do this job), sewerage collectors who manually disposed of our "night soil" daily from the homes and bring them to the sewerage treatment works in Ulu Pandan, Kim Chuan Road and Henderson Road (now the Tiong Bahru Park) have all disappeared.
The "night soil" workers on the truck in the 1970s.
Also gone were the trucks of "32-doors containers".
Alternatively, an outgoing tides acts like a modern sanitation, but an incoming one spreads disease-bearing filth and sewage into the kampong grounds. No proper drainage or sanitary systems.
Long, long ago in the 1950s, the metal containers were loaded onto carts without mechanisation.
Whatever goes in must go out, and somebody has to do the "dirty" work as his job...take a look at how the process goes:
The truck with containers of 32-doors (16-doors on each side) with standard design.
Modern sanitation system nowadays are odourless method, concealed system to dispose human waste...with a flush in the toilet.
Strange...people may refer to egestion of bodily wastes as "dirty" and call it "shit". Shit is an English word that is usually considered vulgar and profane in Modern English. There are many words of euphemism in the English language...or to call "a spade a spade"?
It is a part of digestion system of all living things (eg. birds, animals, insects, etc) other than human beings.
Zoologists will generally call "shit" as feces of mammals. Other words are: "Poop", "Dookie". "Scheisse". "Poo Poo". "Brownies".
Responsible dogs and cat owners bring along a plastic bag to dispose the "poo poo" when their pets for a walk outside the home.
iremember from memories of an incident in the office one day:
My former colleague (no name calling please) was attending to a member of the public to serve him. However, the customer was not satisfied and angrily shouted "SHIT", unconsciously to nobody in particular, appearing frustrated.
The Customer Service Officer was also annoyed and went away from the service counter after the customer left the office, to share with her colleagues to think aloud her pent-up feelings:
"Funny hor...how comes nowadays "shit" also come out from the mouth..."
Alamak...my face became "green" when I heard the conversation from another part of the office. If she had passed that "unwanted remark" in front of the customer, she would be inviting for a complaint for rudeness!
I cautioned my colleague to be careful before speaking. Not to forget the importance of polite service. The customers are always right!
That's a true story. Its my personal working experience and memories to share.
