Which one irks you more?

[corneyAmber]

Blobbi:

although we wash the rubber bands from the market before saving them.

Wow this one is interesting. Not unless the rubber band is tainted with some fishy smell and all, I would never have thought of washing them. I learn something.

Since we are at this, do any of you clean your eggs before you keep it away in the fridge or egg box?

I have heard people falling sick from germs coming from egg shell, food poisoning to be specific.

[autumnbronze]

Blobbi:

But this is coming from me (dun want to say slobbi blobbi lah, but there's a teeny tiny tinge of truth ...)

slobbi blobbi !!! sooooooooooooooo cute :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[westmom]

ks2me:

mathsparks:

buds hubs seems to be suffering from ocd.

we're only that concerned during the sars outbreak n initial days of h1n1. nowadays, we dont bother. but, when we come home, we change to home clothes, more for comfort than to rid of germs.

not criticising anyone here, but perhaps we're more lax coz we dont have young kids around.

Actually habits need to be cultivated in order to execute smoothly when there is an outbreak. So for carrying the sanitiser around, that is a habit I want my kid to inculcate regardless if there is an outbreak or not. That said, I do agree with you that we should not be overly concerned to the extent of being paranoid.

Agree..what i find most lacking in our society is \"washing hands with soap\". If you don't believe me, just wait around in a public/office toilets and count how many wash hands with soap.....only about 1 or 2 out of 10. Most just splash water onto their fingers or not at all! We are years behind the Japanese in the hygiene aspect. How to curb spread of virus, be it H1N1 or Sars etc when this basic hygiene practice is not yet cultvated. I have witnessed \"kids\" wanting to wash their hands in the toilet but mommies pulling them away..exclaiming \"no time\" to do that..!

[corneyAmber]

westmom:

Agree..what i find most lacking in our society is \"washing hands with soap\". If you don't believe me, just wait around in a public/office toilets and count how many wash hands with soap.....only about 1 or 2 out of 10. Most just splash water onto their fingers or not at all! We are years behind the Japanese in the hygiene aspect. How to curb spread of virus, be it H1N1 or Sars etc when this basic hygiene practice is not yet cultvated. I have witnessed \"kids\" wanting to wash their hands in the toilet but mommies pulling them away..exclaiming \"no time\" to do that..!

Yes yes I observe the same too!!! I too wonder sometimes if it is because people hardly use soap, so in public toilets, they don't top up the soap quickly too. I too believe that washing with soap is essential. So now the saving grace for me is the sanitiser. This 'no time' thing is really eating our normal lives, isn't it? We cut the slack in the wrong areas.

[corneyAmber]

autumnbronze:

OMG, we do that!!!!! as in line the seat and bowl with bathroom paper

Just to share, I honestly did try to like loosen up alot for my son. For eg, aft his gym class, he would go back home and shower, but the funny thing was, he was falling sick practically evry week ie coughing and runny nose aft the class. Then when I started washing his hands and wiping his feet immediately aft the lesson with wet wipes. Low and behold, the two ailments ceased to recur ....

But, that said, yes, I really also believe in moderation too ... and am trying and want to strike a balance as far/much as possible.

One is that I don't really mollycoddle DS when he is sick (common symptoms like cough, cold) because don't want him to be neurotic when he's older.

Actually, I think now, since we are on this topic, really, the purpose is to just try to instill good hygiene habits to DS

Wah so autumnbronze you have extra expense on the seat liners.
Yeah ultimately we just want the kids to observe some level of hygience to help themselves. There is no clear right or wrong unless have experiences to prove them, some are just personal preferences and others are just good to inculcate for precautionary measures.

[westmom]

ks2me:

westmom:

Agree..what i find most lacking in our society is \"washing hands with soap\". If you don't believe me, just wait around in a public/office toilets and count how many wash hands with soap.....only about 1 or 2 out of 10. Most just splash water onto their fingers or not at all! We are years behind the Japanese in the hygiene aspect. How to curb spread of virus, be it H1N1 or Sars etc when this basic hygiene practice is not yet cultvated. I have witnessed \"kids\" wanting to wash their hands in the toilet but mommies pulling them away..exclaiming \"no time\" to do that..!

Yes yes I observe the same too!!! I too wonder sometimes if it is because people hardly use soap, so in public toilets, they don't top up the soap quickly too. I too believe that washing with soap is essential. So now the saving grace for me is the sanitiser. This 'no time' thing is really eating our normal lives, isn't it? We cut the slack in the wrong areas.

Let's hope the MOH put more effort in educating the public in this aspect. If everyone does their part, it will go a long way to curb the speed and spread of infection ....H1NI, HFMD, SARS, deadly flu...etc.

[corneyAmber]

westmom:

Let's hope the MOH put more effort in educating the public in this aspect. If everyone does their part, it will go a long way to curb the speed and spread of infection ....H1NI, HFMD, SARS, deadly flu...etc.

Yeah.. Hope we can have a culture like Japanese soon in this particular area. I look forward to being a \"Singaponese\" :love:

[mathsparks]

thanx ks2me, shall start carrying my sanitiser with me when i'm out. btw, do you still wash hands with water after you use the sanitiser?


share this pic of a toilet we saw at the seoul airport. at the push of a button, the plastic lining the seat is replaced auto! how's that for clean n convenient..no more cleaning the seats.

http://www.postimage.org/

PS: I dont go round taking pics of toilet bowls, but this is so amazing n i'm wondering when they'll have it here in SG.

[Blobbi]

ks2me:

I know of people who will bring toilet seat paper to lay on them before using.

This one, I can't help it. My rule is, no physical contact please!! First I clean the toilet seat and then I line it cos liquid can seep through, urghh!!

So actually, the person using the toilet after me is lucky cos I've cleaned it already :D!

I'm hoping the govt will consider implementing those auto plastic sheet seat-covers in Japan. Then public toilets will really be clean and usable.

[Blobbi]

mathsparks:

thanx ks2me, shall start carrying my sanitiser with me when i'm out. btw, do you still wash hands with water after you use the sanitiser?


share this pic of a toilet we saw at the seoul airport. at the push of a button, the plastic lining the seat is replaced auto! how's that for clean n convenient..no more cleaning the seats.

http://www.postimage.org/

PS: I dont go round taking pics of toilet bowls, but this is so amazing n i'm wondering when they'll have it here in SG.

Gasp, that's what I mean, Mathsparks! It's all over North Asia. Isn't it cool?