Year 6 English Unit 12 Thinking Outside T he Box Page 123
Robest Yong was born in Penang on 1960. He worked with an engineering company. He always thought outside the box and invented a lot of creative things. Robest noticed that some toilets did not have any washbasin. Users have to removed the covers of the cisterns and washed their hands with the water inside there. This will damaged the cisterns. He also saw that some toilet had washbasins, people usually wasted a lot of water when they washed their hands. So, in 1980 he invented Flush āNā Wash water cistern cover. The Flush āNā Wash water cistern cover had won the award of Malaysia and the international award in 1998.