Ugh... it was such a long day today.

I am going to China next month with a bunch of relatives -- Kunming and Shangri-la... or something like that.

Anyway, my passport expired so I had to go get that done today. I arrived at the immigration office at about 11am and they told me they weren't giving out those queue number thingies till 2pm when they reopened post-lunch *sigh*

So I got back at 2pm and then realize I left my old passport in the other car (switched cars with my mom during lunch). So by the time I went to hunt her down, grab my passport, find a parking space, it was about 2:30pm. And then came the excitement: Waiting in a long queue to get a number to get in a long queue to renew my passport *rolls eyes*

But then, oh wait! It got more exciting. My number was was 1138. It was on 1108 and going up at about 15 numbers per hour.

I could have left and come back later I guess but I had just bought a new book about women in Malaysia so I just spent a couple hours reading that :D

Anyhoo... got to go back tomorrow to pick up and pay for my new passport. Also got to do my driver's license tomorrow too because the damn thing expires Saturday.

I hate dealing with the government bodies.

Actually, the 2 hours of reading part was really quite fun. I was on one of those long seat-bench thingies (you know, with a row of 5 seats all connected together) and the legs at one end of it were completely broken off so I had 2 hours of sporadic see-sawing as people sat on it only to fall to the ground. Pretty fun.