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I just bought the D80!!

My first DSLR!:DD

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Landmark occasion y'all!

*the y'all is from watching too much antm.;p

Getting My Discounted Malaysian Passport

I didn't expect any problems getting my "student" passport at half the price, after all I had enquired about it the first time I went there without my ic, but I guess I should have known.

In the website, which isn't done by the immigration dept you know(it's private company, so it's not their fault it's so lousy, go read the FAQs, it's pretty hilarious. I had better help from bloggers), said bring the letter of offer. Turns out you need more than that. It has to state what specific course, what year to what year, how much are the fees. And make sure you bring a "bank draft" to show you paid your fees or whatever. -_-

I managed to be "tolong-ed" this time cos I basically acted like the inferior citizen at the mercy of them officers. I'm not really pissed at the person who handled my application, more of whoever issued those stupid policies to ENSURE they weren't being ripped of. Could take care to make it loud annd clear on the website. You know, the malay version had more information than the english side but even then it wasn't clear enough.

Ok I take back the "inferior citizen" thingy. That's too scathing. Really it was more of showing that I understand their position, how they don't have time to go look at the NUS website to see that NUS doesn't offer one year courses, or that I have accepted NUS's offer online. Or that is their neck for approving my application with just the offer letter. Since the expected outcome will normally thought to be much worse when dealing with govt departments, this is "nice".

Then again, I guess I'm resigned, rather than some who call for efficiency and all. I didn't think negatively about the waiting time, very prepared to sit there and read.
There was this lady, who I overheard encountered a hiccup cos she lacked one more passport photo, complain loudly after she got it approved, by saying," Haih have to wait TWO more hours!" Grumble grumble. I was quite disgusted, cos like two hours wait to get a new passport? Hello? Much improvement over the years already. I guess this is the kind of people who demand the best from their government, which is what everyone wants right?

Oh, one thing I read that made me feel incredulous. It was an article on how the govt is cutting the salaries of the ministers and limiting their overseas trips something like that, and I thought "Wow! That's good. Finally some humility." Then I turn the next page and find that it's only 10%, only because some NGOs cried foul. WTF. Then I find out they get five digit "entertainment allowance" PER MONTH. WTF. With their all important jobs, I don't think they have time to spend that EVERY MONTH RIGHT?

then again I don't have all the facts, but I still believe that is not justified.

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On the way back from my sister's office, I took a cab.(yeah because her date was so important and she couldnt push it back to fetch me home, even though it was raining. But I wouldn't want to get in the way of that special date anyways.) A cab pulled up, but not right next to the shelter cos xome inconsiderate people took up the space and i had to dash through the rain to get to it, i didnt want to get in, so i stood there asking him if he knew where my taman was. He quoted me 25 dollars and I just slammed the door in his face, which gave me tremendous satisfaction. I wished him the luckof not being able to pick up any customers for the rest of the day. I went back to the office (drenched again) cos a mini flood was forming in that shelter.
Later, I came out again and hailed for one. When I saw that it was quite-young malay driver, I thought to myself, "oh no." Actually it's not just applicable to malay, but indian and chinese. I don't know, i just feel that the younger ones are out to get more money, while the old ones are contented with what they get. Not a generalisation, but so far the old malay ones have been the nicest.

So I get in, tell him the direction, and he's like deaf or something. Later he kept repeating the name in a funny way like "Lensong Garden" when it's lenseng. I was like "omg I'm stuck with a lunatic." I was so sure he's taking me for a wild ride. Then he started singing 'Beautiful girl..." you know that song. I was like "Errr.."
Then he asked me whether I was a student. I said YES cos I wanted to indicate that I was poor and was not worth robbing as I had 150 plus and my NEW passport with me. He found out I study in Singapore "form 6" hahah. He asked me whether Singapore's education system is better or malaysia's. Erm, it's quite clear to me, but I thought of how you know some malays are so nationalistic so I said erm, it's the same. Haha. Quite true, I mean, going through the malaysian system it still gets you to an overseas college. Provided you take the neccessary standardised tests. you still get the same amount of knowledge, but other than that, there are some disparities in terms of skills learnt i guess.

So I realised I'm quite cowardly. That I am afraid of the apparent power the malays have. :/
Anyways, turns out he's pretty decent, has 4 kids, works all the time, they don't do well in school.
Yeah moral of the story, don't judge a book by it's cover, then again, why does a father act like that, singing that song to a girl..

*I think I sound like a meanie, spoilt, self-righteous brat. You think so?*