the exodus

For those of you who aren't familiar with the bible story of how Moses led the people of Isreal out of Egypt, here's the link: Book of Exodus

As some of you may know, I have officially moved to site. It was like the Isrealites being led out of Egypt into the Great Wilderness. No phones. No fax. No emails. No internet. No water. No toilets. No transport. No choice. R and KK took on the role of Moses and Aaron respectively -imagine them with a rod and priestly garments! haha

It's only been two weeks into site and I've grossed some people out with my experiences on L.O.V.E (Lavatories Of Vile Excreta). I must say that the portable toilet, a little lonely green unit, took some getting used-to. The flushing mechanism is different. With a push of this joystick-looking handle, blue water would swirl around the bowl and into the bottomless abyss, or what I like to refer to as the S.O.S (Sea Of Sh*te). One thing that freaks me out the most is when your used tissue is unable to get flushed down. Then you start to panic because you don't want the next user to be greeted by soggy white-turned-blue toilet paper. That is gross. This fate, unfortunately, befell me once. And mind you, it was a BOWLFUL of used toilet paper. So, I tried with all my might to push the flush repeatedly and chanted "Please go down! Please go down!". It worked :)

I shall not even mention the smell of L.O.V.E. It's still bearable though. However, the turtle didn't think so. Being a non-smoker, you can imagine my disgust when I saw the him emerge from the L.O.V.E. machine with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. From his guilt-ridden face, he didn't do it on purpose, still... :( After I came out, I smelled like a million bucks...worth of crap and cigarettes :/

MacDonald's have never brought such sweet relief to my sorry soul. Nah, it's not their burgers, but their spacious and clean toilet where you can do what you have to do in peace and have no fear of contracting one billion types of germs while you're at it.

In conclusion, you know you've been taking nice, clean toilets for granted when porcelain never felt so good on your ass.