8th November 2010. Today ,Ah Soon uncle and his sister(from Australia) accompanying and fetching me going to Jabatan Imigresen Ayer Keroh for doing passport as grandpa and I will be going to Singapore next week. i know it would be abit troubling Ah Soon Uncle since we have gone there yesterday(7th Nov)but who know it is closed, we didn’t expect it would close consecutively from Friday Deepavali holiday till Monday.haiz, so we went there again on Monday. Grandpa and my aunt following too.
And guess what? We reached there at 9.30am and we got the number 1120(me) and 1123(my aunt),which are far from the current waiting number 1028.In other words, we have to wait for another 100 customers before reaching our turn. Not only that, after waiting for our turn, we have to wait for another turn to be called for paying the passport fees at the cashier counter, then only that we are required to submit our resit to another counter which we claim our passport from, only after 2 hours time.That is fine, 3 tiring rounds before we could get our newly made passport. However, things went a bit messy and unsystematic, we are supposed to claim our passport at 3pm as stated on the resit paper.
So we approach to the counter and waited for our turn at 2.30pm and I manage to get it earlier, so I am so glad as I don’t really want to wait for such long. But, my aunt only manage to get it at 3.45pm! which is a way too ridiculous, isn’t it? We submitted our resit at the same time but we got our passport at the interval of more than 1 hour? How can that be? We have stood and waited there for so long to help my aunt to claimed her passport, the thing is the staffs mixed up all the passport, those who supposed to claim it at 11am or 12pm didn’t turn up and those 3.30pm claimed it first, while those 2.30pm have to wait, the list of documents was totally mixed up and long waiting queue with lots of grumbling were obvious.Luckily after a long wait, ‘Low Soh Chin!!’, finally my aunt ‘s name was called.Can you Imagine that the long wait from 9.30am to 345pm? It really made us exhausted especially my grandpa. In short,the whole procedure of getting a new passport is really tiring.=(
And guess what? We reached there at 9.30am and we got the number 1120(me) and 1123(my aunt),which are far from the current waiting number 1028.In other words, we have to wait for another 100 customers before reaching our turn. Not only that, after waiting for our turn, we have to wait for another turn to be called for paying the passport fees at the cashier counter, then only that we are required to submit our resit to another counter which we claim our passport from, only after 2 hours time.That is fine, 3 tiring rounds before we could get our newly made passport. However, things went a bit messy and unsystematic, we are supposed to claim our passport at 3pm as stated on the resit paper.
So we approach to the counter and waited for our turn at 2.30pm and I manage to get it earlier, so I am so glad as I don’t really want to wait for such long. But, my aunt only manage to get it at 3.45pm! which is a way too ridiculous, isn’t it? We submitted our resit at the same time but we got our passport at the interval of more than 1 hour? How can that be? We have stood and waited there for so long to help my aunt to claimed her passport, the thing is the staffs mixed up all the passport, those who supposed to claim it at 11am or 12pm didn’t turn up and those 3.30pm claimed it first, while those 2.30pm have to wait, the list of documents was totally mixed up and long waiting queue with lots of grumbling were obvious.Luckily after a long wait, ‘Low Soh Chin!!’, finally my aunt ‘s name was called.Can you Imagine that the long wait from 9.30am to 345pm? It really made us exhausted especially my grandpa. In short,the whole procedure of getting a new passport is really tiring.=(
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| Where come the explanation for the long wait? |
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| the crowd is scaring |
While waiting , I strolled around the department compound and saw the Gallery Produk Penjara. The artsy crafts and stuffs made by prisoners in Malaysia are all available there.So,in curiosity, I think of having a look there since from the outside of the compound, it looks so traditional and very unique in its architecture. When steeping into the Gallery, lots of unique and artsy crafts and every little stuffs ranging from handmade to kitchen utensils etc are all nicely exhibited there. Look at it, aren’t our prisoners are all so talented? Wow!=D
