tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post5128676819692300772..comments2024-03-26T13:52:37.542+08:00Comments on Blog To Express: Memories of Smell - SewerageThimbuktuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04495581875211093357noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-56320186001541094492016-03-30T10:31:44.083+08:002016-03-30T10:31:44.083+08:00Yes, I too have seen and lived among night soil ca...Yes, I too have seen and lived among night soil carriers when I was a kid.But, like you blog says these should only be memories. But, this is not the case in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, even as of now. Every time it rains manholes overflow and the stench is unbearable.Read more in my blog at:<br />www.seweragescam.comLuqman Michelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13089314934834818707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-60206982137629241072012-02-20T18:48:27.273+08:002012-02-20T18:48:27.273+08:00Andy..memories of smell of individual perspectives...Andy..memories of smell of individual perspectives of our same place. different times. different experiences. Thanks for sharing.Thimbuktuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04495581875211093357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-78055987622130068692012-02-20T18:44:26.081+08:002012-02-20T18:44:26.081+08:00Thanks Philip. Your additional info could not be f...Thanks Philip. Your additional info could not be found at Wikipedia or anywhere else about the sewerage works in Singapore in the 1960s.Thimbuktuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04495581875211093357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-37835472581931524162012-02-20T06:56:40.140+08:002012-02-20T06:56:40.140+08:00"Unpleasant memories" indeed, FL. Our ge..."Unpleasant memories" indeed, FL. Our generation had gone through together the difficult and tumultuous times with perseverance. It is a chapter of Singapore history on blog topic about sewerage. The primitive "bucket system", the way done in the past, was not an achievement for Singapore to be proud of.<br /><br />The development of the current modern sanitation system is the benefit for everyone in Singapore.Thimbuktuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04495581875211093357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-38372679414816001212012-02-20T00:10:50.526+08:002012-02-20T00:10:50.526+08:00Thanks for sharing with us an "unpleasant&quo...Thanks for sharing with us an "unpleasant" memories but an essential service then ! That's what my generation experienced through it. Yee Weng Hong's account is the same as what when I grew up as a small child in those pre-war houses in the 1950s and then the early 1960s in kampong houses. I was told that the night-soil workers went on strike before, and how the the buckets were not collected or replaced ! Just imagine that. My family used the bucket system until we shifted to Bukit Ho Swee flat in 1963 with modern flushing system.FLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03429286415685838183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-1028013046246956082012-02-19T22:59:52.820+08:002012-02-19T22:59:52.820+08:00Nightsoil was first brought to a pumping station s...Nightsoil was first brought to a pumping station such as Becoolen Street Sewage Pumping Station, Paya Lebar Sewage Pumping Station and a few others. From the there the sewage went to the treatment plants at Kim Chuan Road, Ulu Pandan and Henderson.<br /><br />Majority of the nightsoil workers belonged to the 'çheow wang' dialect people.PChewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01246226278619934355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-45609073426871225872012-02-19T21:30:11.020+08:002012-02-19T21:30:11.020+08:00gloss, but my full respect. Some people has to do ...gloss, but my full respect. Some people has to do the dirty (but necessary) job. Thanks for sharing this fear-factor story.--andy--https://www.blogger.com/profile/00589704770792117451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-27338384063751526602012-02-19T21:21:36.381+08:002012-02-19T21:21:36.381+08:00Yes, Weng Hong. Accident does happen. So its an oc...Yes, Weng Hong. Accident does happen. So its an occupational hazard for the "night soil" carriers who had to rush from place to place on their duty job. <br /><br />When I visited my second auntie who rented a room at a barber shop at Chin Swee Road once when I was young, I had seen a "night soil" carrier collecting the two heavy metal boxes, one on each hand, from the toilet at the back of the shop to the 32-door container. The tenants had to clean the place if water spilt on the floor. Can we imagine the daily common scenario at the shop?Thimbuktuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04495581875211093357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-26741501765341806872012-02-19T20:16:40.799+08:002012-02-19T20:16:40.799+08:00When I was young, I stayed in Duxton Road. Each fl...When I was young, I stayed in Duxton Road. Each floor was partitioned into cubicles for 6 - 8 families to live in. All the families share 1 toilet. To use the toilet we squat on 2 wooden planks. The waste was collected by 1 metal pail as shown in the photos. I remembered the night soil carrier walked around bare footed. He had to carried 2 loads of night soil balanced on a pole over his shoulders when climbing down a dark, narrow stairs from the 3rd storey. I was always afraid that he might trip and spill the night soil.Yee Weng Honghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01306979220710750442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-21721431734278018512012-02-19T19:44:46.034+08:002012-02-19T19:44:46.034+08:00Thank you for sharing the experience, Jim. Not a p...Thank you for sharing the experience, Jim. Not a pleasant one though.<br /><br />But that was the environment and condition in Singapore 5 decades ago without modern sanitation and drainage infrastructure in development and planning of health and and hygienic co-ordinated efforts over the years.<br /><br />I agree with you. The "night soil" workers are to be thankful for the manual sanitation system to keep Singapore clean in the past.Thimbuktuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04495581875211093357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-15566329465596838642012-02-19T17:25:39.059+08:002012-02-19T17:25:39.059+08:00From birth to my Pre-U 2 year (1965), I was stayin...From birth to my Pre-U 2 year (1965), I was staying in Kim Keat Lane. I remember the 'night-soil carriers' as they were then known as, and throughout all those years we had no flushing toilets.<br /><br />As a small kid I used to watch them at work, and didn't even mind the odour. But as I got older and began to differentiate smells, my grandma taught me to show my respect for these workers and never to squeeze my nose and never say anything negative in their presence - just get back into the house if I hear the 36-door lorry.<br /><br />These are things the young generations in today's Singapore never get to experience.<br /><br />Jim KwokJacob Sea-Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15913345459815591108noreply@blogger.com