From The Star,

Penang flush with dirty loos PENANG: Most toilet users on the island do not flush and clean up themselves after using public toilets. This is the finding of Penang Municipal Councillor Geeta Suresh Chand, who has been inspecting public toilets. “Is it so difficult to just pull the flush handle? Most of these toilets are cleaned three times a day, but it is the users that foul it up by refusing to flush and clean up after themselves,” she said. cont......

Dirty toilets are nothing new to Malaysia. In actual fact, we have been quite notorious for such acts. Indeed there is little point in having first world infrastrucure but third world mentality as correctly pointed out by our PM. It has been the same "tidak apa" attitude of Malaysians that I have been lamenting.

I believe the moulding of character starts during one's childhood. The role of parents and teachers are synergistic. Perhaps it is the school's curriculum that is deficient in its content. I think schools are stressing so much on examinations that they have lost the true reason for education. Teachers would only concentrate on examination topics and style of tackling such papers instead of properly getting the messages across to our young.

Parents are also getting busier these days and thus are neglecting their duties as the primary educators for their children. Instead they have wrongly entrusted schools and tuition centers to do this job for them. I think parents should definitely be more proactive in instilling the most basic of manners and ethics in their children.

Eventually, I think we may have to emulate the social dictatorship for which Singapore is infamous for.