Please Take A Number
February 11th, 2007
i went to renew my passport the other day.
my mother wanted to go with me - i have no clue why, but i highly suspect it’s because she thinks i’m too retarded to get my passport done myself. even my dad (who never offers to do anything with me) was hassling me to go. his exact words were, “just tell me which day you’re free, then i take you go!!!” wahhhh what’s the big deal here? all want to get me out of the country issit? all want me to stay with Martian forever issit? so that i dont spend money shopping (father) and so that my shoes are all free to be borrowed (mother) right???
think i dont know ah. parentals, i am on to you and your evil plans. expired passport or not, you are going to be stuck with me for the next 20 years! muahaha.
on the day before i was meant to go renew my passport, there was a bit of an emergency and my parents had to fly off to Labuan. i woke up to find them already gone, and a stack of documents under my door. i opened the envelope to find my birth cert, a photocopy of my ID both front and back, passport-sized photos, my passport… and a passport renewal application form already filled out from start till end.
AND A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO RENEWING MY PASSPORT.
does my mother really think i’m retarded??? :( :(
anyway quite cute also lah my mother. she kept texting me to “remember to renew your passport!!” and on the day i went to do it, she kept calling me for a progress report every few hours. what the hell is going on man.
so i arrived at Pusat Bandar Damansara at 8am. and my passport was ready by 11am! phwoar damn cool. not bad ah, i remember during the good old days, things like these took 3 working days.
when i got there and had crossed out #1 and #2 on my mother dearest’s step-by-step guide to passport renewal, i had to do #3 which is Take A Number At Counter. so i did lah. the number was 1090 .. and we were only at 1030. knowing how slow the ppl at the immigration dept can be, i figured i had lots of time to kill, so i went to get my pictures taken.
oh my god the inner camwhore in me just leapt out. i made the poor guy take like a few billion pictures of me before i was satisfied with the last one. i mean seriously, what is with passport pictures? why do they always turn out so icky? after i was done with the whole rigmarole of smiling, not smiling, pouting (yes i did), raising eyebrows, not raising eyebrows, left hair parting, middle hair parting, right hair parting, tulan face, innocent wide eyed face, normal looking face and lain lain lagi, i finally settled on the blank-stare face.
then i went back up to find that i had missed my turn in the queue -_______-
so i took another number. while waiting, stared at the pictures i took, decided i didnt like it so much after all.
went to another booth and another photographer to take more pics.
MISSED MY NUMBER AGAIN WTF WTF WTF.
i texted my boyfriend and father to tell them what a camwhore of a girlfriend and daughter they have, that she had to miss her number twice cos she was taking pictures. they werent very surprised. like, whateverrrrrrrrr. at least i have a nice passport picture now.
NOT. cos i handed over the wrong set of pictures when it was my turn at the counter. grrrr. went back to school after that to sit for a test i didnt know i had to sit for, and then came back, spending a grand total of RM50 on cab fare back and forth.
the fruits of my labour :
and this is how i looked like in 2002! i was 14 and dating the school athlete, hahaha. we were so in love! now everytime we meet, we hit each other and start swearing and dissing each other’s hair.
sigh! has it really been 5 years already? 2002 feels like just yesterday. ivan sat behind me in class, and i used to give sieutheng all these stupid lovesick smiles. back then sieutheng never wore skirts! chong ken was always with me and my then-boyfriend used to be so jealous of him. miss mabil taught us english and we’d always imitate her. “we have ample time!”, “what’s the time like now?”. the other day i saw miss mabil at the train station and i didnt know if she remembered me, so i didnt say hi.
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32 Comments Add your own
1. Kevin | February 11th, 2007 at 7:13 am
You should see how retarded I look in my new passport..it’s like my head or cheeks is gonna explode but then again, I don’t really care hahaha =P
2. vvens | February 11th, 2007 at 10:51 am
hehe i saw something, “my slim su ann.” :)
3. sieutheng | February 11th, 2007 at 11:20 am
i just met your then bf last 2 days. hehe. still very lala and si ham-ish. now he and my bf are partners in some mlm company………..
4. Hishy | February 11th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
I wish my parents would makes copies etc etc and fill out any forms etc etc for me -_-
Everytime I have to get something like that done, I have to do EVERYTHING myself… like any other normal person okay :P
5. kristof | February 11th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
look like mehlay
6. pinkpau | February 11th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
kevin : liddat only look like beaver mah
vvens : hahaha! how nice if that was true!
sieutheng : haha wtf, i told him a while ago that eugene is into MLM, and i suggested that the both of them should get together and discuss that shit. i didnt think he’d actually do it!!! haha k lah when our two men go off and talk about their MLM, we can go do our girly things together!
hishy : HOI why have i not been seeing u on msn!! or are you into AIM now :P faster come online so i can talk to u!
kristof : really ah! but how can , i’m so fair!
7. turquoise | February 11th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
miss mabil taught me last year. did not like her at all !
8. tze | February 11th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
hahaha me and miss mabil have never ever got along. i used to make fun of her so damn much that if karma exists, i would’ve been run down by a car by now wtf.
eh u looked so smug in form 2 ;)
and lala = ee yang? eh i think i saw him at maisons. suddenly i feel so old. wasn’t it just yday u and him were holding hands in the coridoor!
9. sieutheng | February 11th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
huh he knows who is eugene meh? anyway it was ME who asked him out to talk abt the mlm thing…not him =p
10. alea | February 11th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
awww. you look so innocent in your 2002 passport.
11. mrbherng | February 11th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Lucky you to have your parents that concerned with your stuff. My dad will only say “it’s your thing, do it yourself” and continue doing whatever he’s doing.
12. Carmen. | February 12th, 2007 at 12:40 am
People usually look so fugly in their passport`s picture, but you look pretty. =) And fair too. I wonder why.
13. fisheye | February 12th, 2007 at 1:29 am
On the bottom…
:p my SLIM Su Ann
Gotta love passports lol
14. Adrian C | February 12th, 2007 at 2:15 am
hey, they should’ve rejected your photo. tak nampak telinga!
15. wilzc | February 12th, 2007 at 5:41 am
too be absolutely frank….
u look better in ur old passport……. V(^_^)V
16. Anonymous | February 12th, 2007 at 6:01 am
eh… damansara perdana one also is 2 hours ready eh? Not everwhere is 2 hours ready… i went to the wangsa maju wan to make… that would’ve been nearer to ur home whurt… no meh? =p
Bofore i went to wangsa maju’s immigration… i was at subang old air port there… that one took 24 hours to renew…. which i then left the place and head to wangsa maju coz’ i needed my passport urgently.
17. Albert Ng | February 12th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Doesn’t everybody look blown out/fair in their passports? They call it muka telur.
Fortunately, the toilets there are nothing to shout about. :D
Also, experienced passport renewers fill forms beforehand, and scoff at the newbies. Your momma didn’t want you to be a victim of possibly violent aunties, giving you paper cuts and pen stabs.
I went alone to apply for my first passport, and the counter was smiling and perhaps understanding when I explained it was my first time. Wow, how smiley!
18. MichelleSY | February 12th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
ROTFL - I can’t believe you missed your number TWICE and handed in the wrong photo in the end. But I still think you look nice lahhhh =)
And how cute is your mom? Item #3 - take a number LOL!!!! So detailed lah her list =)
19. Kenneth | February 12th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Still 160cm or higher now? :P
20. noix | February 12th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
you forgot ” no nid to camwhore (brother) ” :p
21. KY | February 13th, 2007 at 11:36 am
oOO 2002 already 160cm.
22. Asyraf Lee | February 13th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Ah, the passport pic.
My ID, my license and my passport all muka tak sama. LOL
Once kena tahan because of that =P
23. CHris | February 13th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
At least your pic looks good. All my current IDs sucks. Be grateful. ;)
24. ront | February 13th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
in the good old days….passport takes months to issue…..3 days were only a few years ago.
25. pinkpau | February 13th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
turquoise : hey, she can actually be quite nice :P
tze : did u make fun abt her wardrobe non-variety? cos we did, hahaha. ms mabil and i used to get a long extremely well.. it was ms mano who hated me with a passion. well, her and all malay female teachers. hey in form 2 i was the nicest person in the world! where got smug! and yup it’s eeyang. how come u bump into him but not me??
sieutheng : gasp! what have u done! i keep trying to tell him not to get into this mlm bshit..
alea : im still innocent :( *bats eyelids
mrbherng : my parents do that too .. i dont know what’s up with this passport thing!
carmen : u forget that i made the guy take a million and one pictures before i was satisfied.. haha :P
fisheye : hehe ur too late! vvens spotted it first
adrian c : actually i think they’re quite relaxed abt it. i asked the guy taking pictures if i could submit a pouty picture, and he said yah, they dont actually stop u. :O
wilzc : sigh! 2002 was my cute year.
anon : i didnt go to dsara perdana, i went to pusat bandar dsara! picked that one cos i’ve been there before and i know where it is, as opposed to wangsa maju where i would get lost in the event the cabbie didnt know where it is :P and yup got it done in 2 hrs.
albert ng : wow, my mother must be a passport renewal veteran. one more reason to give her a big fat smooch. why are u obsessed with govt department toilets?? and how did the hearts and lightbulbs gig go? u must fill me in on the hartamas sq drama
michellesy : ya wei.. just because i was too busy taking photos. haha. either that or the immigration dept is getting too efficient
kenneth : proudly 5 cm taller :P
noix : haha their reason would be “no need to nag us to come home early!” hey i like ur nickname :D my fav is noix de amande.
ky : 14 mah! already went thru growth spurt!
asyraf : haha! cant u take ur own passport pics? if i had that blue background, i would take my own pics FOR SURE
chris : thats cos i made the guy take my picture a billion and one times before i was satisfied with the last :P
ront : gotta love progress :D
26. TheRealAnnonymous | February 14th, 2007 at 1:10 am
Oooops… anonymous was me btw. Yea, true enuff its better to go to somewhere where you’re familiar. =p I did mine in Wangsa Maju… actually the place isn’t hard fo find, I managed to find it the first time through having been to wangsa maju probably less than 5 times in my life. hahaa… =p I called them up to get their address first.
27. wilzc | February 14th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
nyehehhehe in the new passport..
u look stoned.. pale and bimbo-ish!!!
and i thought u took the time to pout and pose? :P
hahaha
regardlesss..
happy v-day!
u owe me intros to hot chicks when in melb rememebr?? :D
28. foreverjas | February 17th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
happy chinese new year!
29. Jessica | February 23rd, 2007 at 6:26 am
Umm…not to be nosey or anything but don’t you worry about identity theft? You have your photo and all your particulars from your passport …. just worried for you, but then again maybe that’s the paranoic part of me stepping out onto the podium.
Have a good weekend!
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32. cindy | January 24th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
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