making a new malaysian passport

its not so scary anymore. i remembering having to wake up early and queuing for a form for hours in some terrible dirty and old building in the past. after getting the form, my parents will pull us along to same makeshift stall to get our forms filled, picture taken and document photocopy. then we will stand in another queue again to get a no. to submit our document before heading to the canteen downstair to munch on some b'fast- all said and done before 10am. hsk hsk... can you imagine how early we got to wake up to travel from singapore to malaysia all for that?

as we grew older, things improved and system upgraded. now its so quick and easy! i am impress with the progress the govt had taken. or maybe in the past my parents were not well informed enough to do things the fast and right way? i don't know but with the much appreciated improvement, i won't be complaint much.

the stuff (scary) i read online seems a little unfavourable and not doing any justification to the improvement made. =( i think our Malaysia High Com. in Jervios Rd (SG) had improved greatly! the building is prettier although the initial design is still there and the air con is much welcomed! =) a little lacking in information and direction, i feel, but what the heck?! malaysians are famous for their kampong spirit wat! all we need, was to ask our fellow friendly country-man / woman and they will help by either directing or advising. how cool is that? and even better... the staff are now mostly able to speak simply english! haha... although their faces can still reflect the "i am not so happy to be working" looks. but... how to be happy if u got to work during ur new yr season!? =P

i should had called the hotline earlier that could have saved me 1 trip there. =( so for future references the tel no. is - 67328067 and the website is http://www.imi.gov.my/eng/im_Page1.asp we can get detail information via the hotline and print forms from the website! if not, the form for the passport is S$0.50! ok... if u aren't a cheap-skate, that's fine...cuz i am not. =P and the form actually isn't that tough to fill up on ur own either! =) i did mine (with some great help from my normal marketplace malayu and internet free translating services)!! but i got to admit, getting a malay to fill it up will surely be faster, my advise...print the form and ask ur malay friend to fill it for you then... go to the actual place, buy the form and copy word for word. neat right?

i'm going to archive this entry as important govt stuff so i can ref it again as and when. =)