Happy New Year to everyone who's reading this right now! Well, not that I'm expecting many, since I'm as much as active posting here as a sloth would go and clean itself of algae every month, and it's been 2007 for nearly a week already, so I'm damn late now, but still, don't let the depressions of the real life get to you and be happy!
Now, it's been a long time since my last post, which was primarily about my vacation to Jakarta that didn't feel like one. Turned out it was never going to be a vacation at all - I didn't goto Jakarta that is.
What happened was that, when I made it all the way to KLIA with my mom, Mak Som(she's the woman whose family relation to me I didn't feel like explaining since I'm too lazy - for limited reference see previous post)and her son and daughter, we waited for some time till almost one pm. I even had time to perform the Zuhur prayer - or was it jama' Zuhur-Asar prayer? Anyway after we all finished with our prayers, the travel agent was already there to gather in all the group members and take our passports.
Turned out that my passport cannot be used since it only had five months before its expiry date, which was in May. See, for international travel, your passport must have a period of at least six months before it can be used. Now who the hell came up with that arcane rule? One of the officers there explained that if I still want to go, I can renew my passport at Sepang and join the travel group later, since my ticket seat is still valid for another month, but as I didn't really want to go in the first place, and insistence on going would only cause me more hassle and money.....
Long story short, I managed to go back home alone, from KLIA to Setiawangsa, luggages and all.
Well, sure it sucks and you fell terrible, after all those pointless persuasions by my mom and packings, but at least I did learn something.
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...what?
You people knew what I was going to say anyway, so what's the point?
Anyway, chow.
