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… today at the Shah Alam Immigration Department was a breeze! *Phew*
Reached there 5 minutes before 10am and I got the number 4057, with the counters currently serving 4042… not too bad, just 15 numbers ahead of me…

Managed to get it done before 11am and then drove to Brickfields to have pork noodles for lunch there with my dad…

Although the application process wasn’t a nightmare (thankfully! ), but there was one incident there that annoyed me…

Well, when I was queueing up behind a guy at the counter to get my number (after filling in my forms and attaching the relevant documents), comes this lady in her late 20’s or so, cutting in just behind that guy (the queue with the lane dividers were just a tad to the right of the counter).

So, I patiently waited for her to realize her ignorance of the queue (there were nobody behind me, you see) but after a while, I made a comment to her, saying that the queue is actually where I’m standing. She gave a look at me, and arrogantly said in Mandarin: “I came from across another counter (pointing to some counters to the left) and I was here before this, SO I AM NOT cutting your queue”

What a load of bullcrap from this lady… she was at the counter before this was because she needed to buy the application form (RM 1 each) and I did that too earlier *grin*

I decided not to make much of a fuss out of it (considering my dad was beside me at that time, and he knows a few of the immigration staff behind the counters). She went on ahead of me to get a number, but for some reasons, was denied a number, perhaps due to some incomplete documents or her photographs not up to specification. Serve her right…

And then when I was minding my own business (means, firing up my iPAQ PDA to play Bejeweled), she sat down right next to us. Noticed that when she got her number, it was like 5 numbers after mine…

After I went thru the first phase of the application, I sat back down waiting for the 2nd phase (2nd phase was to pay for the application at a separate counter and get the receipt) and after a while, I noticed her number being called.

This smart alec lady, conveniently place her right thumb on the fingerprint scanner device (made by SAGEM, by the way) when told by the officer. At that time, her right thumb was still dirty with the black ink that was used to take her thumbprint in the traditional way (supposed to clean it up right after, with the tissue paper conveniently provided at the counter top) for documentation purpose. I saw the officer give her a very fierce grin as the officer had to clean up the mess of smudges that she caused… Serve her right again!

So it wasn’t a bad experience… at least I can get my passport on Wednesday!