I'm Officially Unemployed

That's right! It is officially my first day being unemployed. Yup, so being unemployed means I am able to do the things that I didn't have time to do while being employed. So first thing I did....I went to renew my passport as it expires in January 2008, that means I can't get out of the country because it's less than 6 months of validity.

I woke up early this morning because I wanted to get it done earlier so I can get to do other stuff for the day. Also because of pure "kiasu-ism", I was anticipating that there was going to be a long queue. Can you blame me? I mean, going to any government offices here can be a really bad experience where one have to wait for hours just to get things done. What more it is the fasting month?! But to my surprise, everything went smoothly and I didn't even have to wait! Wow! I was actually impressed by how helpful they were when it came to filling up the form, guiding me to the appropriate counter and letting me know what to do next. I was like "is this for real??" Ok, maybe I didn't give our government workers credit before, but honestly, it was really a different thing since the last time I was there. I came in at around 815am, filled in a form, get my picture taken, photocopy my IC and made the payment. All that took?..15 mins! - I kid you not! I was then told to come back in 2 hours to collect it. So I went to have my breakfast and walked around a bit, and 2 hours later (in fact it was less that 2 hours, it was about 1 hour 45 mins), I went back to pick up my brand spanking new passport without even queing up! So total time it took? 2 hours 15 mins! Impressive by Malaysian standards considering it took a whole day to get this done the last time.

So, ever wondered how my passport picture looks like? Here they are, the old one and the new one for your entertainment/amusement purpose:

I don't know is it the picture or do you think I lost a bit of weight? =p HAHA! Well, I got to get some things done and will have a social event to attend tonight. Will write about it in my next entry. Stay tuned!