yvonne points me to yesterday.sg. this makes me feel all the sadder for i learnt from my mother only yesterday that last week they replaced the squat toilet in our house with a sitting toilet. i loved the fact that our house has both kinds - the one upstairs is the sitting variety, and the one downstairs, at the back of the house, is the traditional squatting kind. if i were home i would have objected on grounds of historical preservation, but they would slip things past when i'm gone!