penang: episode #6
September 6, 2006 by joannetan86
day6: 4th september 2006
0700 hours: woke up early to try my luck at the immigration office again… hopefully, with the public announcement of the maintained passport fee, the immigration office would be quite empty today… or so i thought.
0800 hours: mom parked outside the office and waited in the car (yellow line) ’cause there wasn’t any place to park… beach street was packed with people like always-lah. so i got off the car and went to line up (the existing line was longer than the other day: WHAT!!!!) we were practically lining-up outside the office… (imagine how long the line was!) oh crap!
0900 hours: my turn finally came… like what i expected, no more numbers… come another day, pls! dammit! great… asked the front-desk officer if i could make my passport somewhere else outside penang… she said go ahead! i asked her "are you sure? ’cause my case is different… i’m making a new passport because my previous one was STOLEN!!!" she said, "boleh…. pergi pergi." happily i went.
0915 hours: told mom what happened. we headed for sg petani immigration office. took the ferry to get us to mainland.
1030 hours: yay yay… reached the immigration office. dark clouds were gathering above. hurried inside the building. thank goodness… no line, no people! i thought this had to be my day! happily went to the front-desk, took my number… and before i could settle my ass on the chair, my number was called. went over to the counter (with a huge smile on my face), only to be told that my case can only be settled in penang and penang only. WHAT????!!! because my correspondence address was a penang one… "but kakak officer kat penang cakap sini boleh settle?" "tak boleh adik… sorry ya! balik penang saje baru settle!" I was screaming inside… mom was furious too though she didn’t show it physically.
1130 hours: crap! "apa boleh buat?? balik penang-lah" took our lunch here at SP and stopped over at our house here to collect dad’s forgotten car keys and balik.
1300 hours: on the way back to penang, mom suggested to stop-by at carrefour butterworth… okay. since i was not doing anything for the rest of the day and since i had only been to carrefour ONCE, why not?
1600 hours: whilst on Penang Bridge, mom said: let’s go TESCO… wide-eyed, i looked at her: are you serious? ok-lah… it’s been awhile since the last time i visited "my-2nd-home". shopping again!
1800 hours: finally, we reached home… tired and all. packed stuff, ate dinner and stayed at home for the rest of the day.
