are you contemplating a new career in singapore?

living in singapore for nearly a decade threw up occasional unintentional sources of amusement - if anybody i know from those days is reading this, then you'll remember some of the extrememly idiotic censorship decisions made by people who were in dire need of an irony transplant - the austin powers 'spy who "shioked" me' debacle springs to mind - or the lady who wouldn't let an episode of the 1964 bbc landmark documentary on the first world war be distributed because it had the word 'hell' in the title - and then there was the amusing divorce case involving mention of oral sex, which is illegal in singapore, the details of the court procedings provided us with a lot of laughs

and so i was amused by this which k. showed me this afternoon (what he was looking for which accidentally led him to this, i didn't ask) - we thought at first that it must have been a 'wiki' hoax, but apparently not:

"World Toilet Organization
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The World Toilet Organization is an organization dedicated to issues involving toilets and sanitation. It is based in Singapore and, as of 2004, includes toilet associations from 17 countries around the world, from Russia to the United States to Australia to Japan.

Every year, the World Toilet Organization sponsors the World Toilet Summit. This has been held in various places around the world:

2001 - Singapore
2002 - Seoul, South Korea
2003 - Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
2004 - Beijing, People's Republic of China
2005 - Belfast, Northern Ireland

The World Toilet Organization promotes the celebration of World Toilet Day on November 19 of every year. It is also setting up the world's very first Toilet College in Singapore. The first classes will begin in October 2005 and will be held at the Republic Polytechnic."

so if anyone is contemplating a career change soon, now you have an extra option