Bawal Umihi Dito

This is indeed a common warning all over the Philippines because a lot of Pinoy males has this habit of just urinating anywhere they could find a place of safety. Sometimes it is quite funny because some warning has this: "ASO LANG ANG UMIIHI DITO" (in English, only dogs urinate here). This only means two things: 1. Pinoys really love the convenience of fast relief or 2. There is a lack of public comfort rooms here in the country. Still this is an extension of our trait lacking discipline -- just throwing our watery waste anywhere. But of course, in some places where comfort rooms are really provided, Pinoys are actually disciplined in urinating in the right place.

I really feel ashamed if somebody from other countries will see this writings on most walls in the Philippines esp. Manila. I don't know what's wrong with the Filipinos why they have this urgency to pee on the walls. Like 90% of the men will do that. So sad in my place (Tondo, Manila), if somebody will see a vacant lot with a wall on it (either it's your neighbor's wall or own wall), they wil pee on it. Yuck! THat's why the owners of the lot or the people living near to that place will write on the wall "BAWAL UMIHI DITO" (or means do not pee here). I wounder why here in Bahrain, there's also a lot of Filipinos here but they don't do that. WHY? Because people here have discipline. Maybe we filipinos are lacking discilpine in our country esp cleanliness and hygiene. Filipinos who are living in Japan, Singapore, Dubai, and other clean countries can adjust. Why not in Philippines? We should ask the government to be more sensitive on this issues. BE MORE STRICT on implementing rules. The signs doesn't help at all, it only makes the community dirtier (vandalism). We should learn to be clean. We are the one of cleaniest citizens that takes a bath everyday but i wonder why most men pees on our walls like every walls they can see.

Yes that's really shameful if foreigners would know what it means. I guess that habit has stemmed early on when our place was not yet concreted and there were lots of trees around and soil to absorbed our urines and not really become a problem to the environment since it easily is absorbed in the soil and also serves as fertilizers to trees or plants. But now we have concreted almost every inch of the metropolis urinating in it becomes foul smelling since it is not absorbed by concrete and the smell spreads easily which is environmentally bad to the place. I really hope that people should start disciplining themselves to urinate properly on designated places and this habit stopped.

It's really funny to see that sign, sometimes the exact post where they posted is the exact location where the violators point their target. I dont really understand how could they just pee on the street or wherever they feel like doing so, the violators are men, women can't do that, why could they head to the nearest comfort or just hold their pee until they have the privacy to do their thing? They remind me of dogs that mark their territory by peeing the place, or they marking their territories too?

haha! hits a man who do it, it just shows that dicipline lacks for a lot of people, theres no need to post a sign for that if everyone could just have dicipline. :p