Handling Holland.. (and now aidan too!)

It has been slightly more than a couple of weeks, and we thought we should follow up with our passport matter. it is almost year end and we need to go somewhere, now, anywhere for our holidays!

We planed to visit my dear sister and my brother in law in Warwick, and of course our dearest friend ez, adam and family, the newlyweds k.na and nigel, thus we needed the passports ASAP!

After calling the Malaysian High Com in london several times (i’d say more than 6 times, left 2 voice msgs) i failed to speak to the passport and immigration officer (no one ever picks up the phone). hardy then called our Malaysian Embassy in The Hague and pak armand (the receptionist) said… "dah boleh datang! passport dah siap!!"

THAT WAS FAST!! it didnt take that long as i anticipated. credit goes out to them for being efficient! (or perhaps i was lucky?) hmm…

And so now my passport’s been renewed till 2011 and aidan has got his own malaysian passport!! yeyyy!! i stared at his passport for a long time, i almost couldnt believe it that: firstly, i have a son, secondly, i have a son who has a passport, third, i have a son who now has a passport and his place of birth - the netherlands! hehe.. gosh! who would have thought!

I WASNT pleased with my photo, i’ve never been pleased with any of my passport photos anyway! but what the heck, i’m not going to look at it everyday! and it was of no one’s fault but mine for putting on weight eversince we got here. (i blame it on the weather and the potatos!) i do however love my ic photo! thats besides the point… anyway…

SO THAT WAS IT! WE GOT IT! we got our passports! oh! and if you guys were wondering about that guy i’m pissed with at the embassy (read recent post ‘Serving Malaysians’), well, he didnt even bother to come out or down wherever his desk was, and see us. he didnt even bother to hand the passports to us. he just left it at pak armand (who is actually quite a nice). HMMMMMPHH!

We then fed aidan there at the waiting room, we then changed aidan there, at the waiting room, we then burped aidan, there at the waiting room, we then threw aidan’s poo poo and pee pee-d pampers, sembang with k.noriah’s husband and pak armand whilst doing all those, and headed to k.noriah’s kedai makan for our early dinner. she’s been here for almost 25 years, have 5 children. she cooks excellent food, her nasi kerabu is a killer!

Entered her shop and we said, "kami orang jaoh, kami lapo! nak makan!" (a mixture of cakap penang & johor). we stuffed ourselves with her glorious food, nasi kuning, ayam kicap, telur sambal, sayur kacang, some surinamese dishes, kuih lapis (the pink and white layers) and two cups of tea while aidan looks on. no nasi kerabu coz the locals dont know how to eat them, so she had few surinamese dishes as well as malaysian dishes which are, to us malaysians, tak cukup ‘power’ but good enough to hilangkan rasa teringin! borak borak, and we were given goreng pisang and ayam goreng for us to tapau back home! how nice!!

Singgah at our dear friend noreen’s cozy, cute, cool apartment and showed off aidan’s new passport!

Aidan was so restless (sorry noreen). he didnt even smile… i guess it was a long day for him.

Now that we got our passports, we dont know where to go! aidan’s been crying a lot lately and i’m not too keen to put him on a plane, even for an hour to UK. apart from that, in my opinion, he is still too young. besides, we’re going there in june, insyaallah for 2 deliveries! (will inform who REALLY soon so watch out!) so.. we’ve decided to go somewhere else, driving distance.. explore germany, belgium or maybe luxemburg.. or buy us some furniture… do some DIY… i know we’ll be missing out on the winter sale this boxing day’s gonna be a bummer, but there’s still summer sale in june/july! yeaay!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! BE SAFE, ENJOY YOURSELVES, HAVE A GOOD ONE!

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