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Friday, May 05, 2006

Our "new" passport!

I had a terrible morning shift again... well, lets not talk about work, I am tired and sick of the working environment outside!
I was being told by the custom staff that I must have my passport photograph change otherwise I will not be able to enter the next time. The custom staff wrote in one of the page "CHANGE PHOTO"! Elaine experienced the same fate hence we went to change our passport this afternoon. There were long queues at the photo taking counter and the renewal of passport and IC section. We took our queue number (7769 & 7770), our turn was after 200 over people. We went to take picture fortunately the queue was not too long. There were combs and gel provided hehe but of course we wouldnt want to share with others! It was $5 for 4 photographs, we were saying perhaps we should start this business. The only thing we have to know is to manipulate the pc, the rest of the work is to print and cut.
After we took the photo, we went to the cafeteria to have a drink. We were wondering how long will they take to process our new passport.

Elaine: Maybe they will just stick our new photo on top of our old one
Me: No lah, how to stick on it. I supposed they will change a new one
Elaine: Then we got to come back and get!
Me: Yeah never mind lor, anyway expiring soon, just do it earlier...

Guess what!!??? The meaning of "change photo" is- We are supposed to produce 2 recent photographs and they will flip to one of the empty page of our passport to stick our photo, stamp it and write at the bottom "New photograph of bearer is affixed"!
This is what we get after queueing for two hours! I asked to renew my passport but I got scolded by the staff. She said "Its not even due, dont waste money!"............ What else can I say!

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