Why can't they make things easier??

It's nice to have school breaks now and then, thats the best time to relax, get things done and catch up on things... lucky for me this year the school had given a day off for good Friday. I mean thats a nice thought considering that all the staff in my school are catholics. I on the other hand took advantage of this leave to settle my husbands visa.

While everyone went to church, My husband and I spent half the day at the Immigration office. I really hate the long hours of waiting in the cue and waiting for the number to be called. I knew that the trip would take at least 4 hours just to get his social pass to be extended for a few more months. I wanted to extend on a long term basis, it's more convenient for me coz I can't be taking leave every few months to get this done.

We took a taxi to get there, as usual I'm not confident to drive there. We manage to get there by 8.30am. My idea of going there early just to beat the crowd... but I guess everyone else had that same strategy too... The place was packed and we had to cue to get the forms, number and information from the counter. The cue was so freaking long, took us 20 minutes to get there and all the guy did was direct us to counter 5. The officer in charge gave me a bunch of forms.. this is what I got not only that I had to pay RM4 for these forms :-

• Declaration from the wife to support the social visit pas application for the Husband
• Additional Information about the applicant (husband)
• Financial Statement, source of Income and Bank Account balance form.
• Declaration from Husband and wife form.
• Security Bon
• Declaration from Sponsor form.
  

When I asked the officer in charge how to fill the forms and what are the requirements for the application... She said "Baca .. lepas tu isi borang jer" hmmm ok read and fill the forms... sounds simple right... which idiot cant do that? duhhhh... She then asked me to go down to the ground floor and get 3 Visit Pass Application forms.. Apparently we have to get it from the counter downstairs. Ok fine, We went down to get the form and paid another RM3 for it.. then went back to the 4th floor.. Why do we have to buy these forms?, why did we have to go all they way down to get the other 3 forms? and why are they sold sapperately? jeeesusssss!!!! After going through the forms there were actually more then just reading and filling up... I got help from some people down stairs and they told me that there are other require attached documents ..!!!

They require :-

• Bank Statements
• 3 months Pay slip
• Assets
• J form
• A letter from my employer
• Marriage certificate
• Birth certificates
• Photocopy of I/C and passport
• A copy of the payment resit VDR/JP Visa (whatever that is)
• A copy of the Deposite resit (what deposite?)
• 2 passport size photo's of the wife.
• 3 passport photo's for the Husband.
• Wedding picture
• Information about witnesses present during our marriage registration.
• Proof of employment and source of income statement. (condition salary must be RM2,000 above)

Why do we need to attach our wedding picture for?? isn't our marriage registration certificate sufficient enough???. apperently ur not married until you're not officially married until you get your picture taken.. hehe.. funny!
Ok now... all the information above they didn't tell you to include unless you asked them, at least thats how it seemed to me at the time... THEY JUST EXPECT YOU TO KNOW?.

We wasted 1 hour filling up the forms, going up and down to get people to at least explain to us how to fill up the dam thing.. only to find out that I need all the other attachments as well. When I asked the Officer again, that all this requirements is not stated in the forms... she then noticed she didn't give me the details and instruction forms..bloody hell! All she didn't even apologize or show any professionalism. Of coz with all the attachments I cant submit the forms... to get all those done will take at least a week.

In the end we just filled up 1 form to extend the normal social visit pass. It's bad enough that the place was filled with people and there were not enough chairs to sit on. We waited 4 hours just to get the 2 months extension and paid RM100 for it. To top that off they misspelled his middle name... arghhhhhhhhhh *bangs her head on the counter* I was frustrated and angry.. these people are suppose to know everything about the whole process.. but honestly they dont! It's easier to just cross the Singapore boarder and get an extension of 3 months without paying any fee and the process takes less then 20 minutes, no hassle what so ever.. plus I get to visit my brother and his family in JB. If not because we wanted to apply for a long term pass, I rather not go there at all.

Oh well, looks like there is another trip to JB in the near future.. good excuse to go shopping and buy some gifts for my niece and godson!

Chef Marie Olive Oil... errr???

My cooking skills seem to have improved ever since I got married... I was from someone who totally depended on my mother to cook dinner for me, order take out when ever I'm hungry and frequent diner at a fast food restaurant on weekends .... I have transformed myself to someone who actually cooks! and if I can do it... trust me anyone can!

• The first step is... Get to know your kitchen! get the utensils ready before you start cooking.
• Plan your meals or create a menu.
• Prepare the ingredients... avoid buying canned foods... go for fresh meat and vegetables.
• You need at least 50 grams of protein in every meal... and as much vegetables as you like.
• Always taste your food before serving... that way you can correct it if in case its too salty or tasteless.

I mastered those helpful tips... heheh I know my kitchen very well now and it takes 30-45 minutes to prepare a delicious 3 course meal for 3 people. It's not impossible once you get the hang of it...

I use to hate cooking because I don't like touching raw meat, I cant stand the smell of garlic and onions on my fingers.... I hate it when the hot oil sizzles and mess up the stove... and the cleaning up after cooking is not something I like to do. But now I enjoy cooking, It's fun! I don't mind touching raw meat or cleaning a fish coz I know once I'm done cooking it.. It's going to taste great! My mom likes my cooking but she prefer my sisters cooking... yea.. sure... whatever...

I have adapted to a healthy lifestyle. I buy fresh meat and vegetables from the supermarket/market 3 times a week. Eat lots of vegetables (cooked and raw), use olive oil to cook everything. Eat 5 times a day or every 3 hours (I'm still trying to do that.. due to work... I don't have time to eat sometimes .. I'm working on that). I don't mind preparing 5 meals a day, it may sound like it's a lot and time consuming... but actually it's not. It's a perfect healthy and simple meal.

Breakfast-Chicken sandwich
2 slices of wheat bread coated with vegetarian mayonaise, 1 slice cheese, salad, cucumber, tomatoes and 2 slices of Farm fresh sandwich chicken meat.


Snack- Lebanese wrap
Lebanese bread, coated with chili/ketchup, sliced tomatoes, cabbage, 1 slice cheese and 2 sausage. Toast for 4 minutes.


Lunch- Chicken Fillet
chicken breast meat sliced (into strips) and mixed with 1 egg, salt, black pepper, red chili powder and add bread crumbs. Deep fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. Then serve with salad, carrot sticks and cucumber.

Snack- Mix Salad
2 ripe tomatoes (chopped), lemon juice, salt, pepper, balsamic viniger, salad, sliced cucumber, corn, kidney beans (can), shredded mango and prawn meat fried in butter

Dinner- Beef Steak
1 slice of beef 100 grams, marinate with whole grain mustard, lemon zest, 2 tbsp lemon juice, salt, pepper, dark soya sauce, coriander leaves (chopped). Add olive oil into a non-stick pan cook for 3 minutes on each side... add sliced onions and cook for another 2 minutes until meat is cooked. Serve with Sliced tomatoes, Steamed broccoli, chick peas (kacang kuda) and green peas.

or

Dinner- Chicken
1 Chicken breast marinate with black pepper, salt, dry chili powder, mustard, dark soya sauce, light soya sauce, blend garlic. Cook it in olive oil until nicely cooked then remove chicken meat from the pan and put in some dice green/yellow capsicums and dice onions. Serve it with steamed corn and garlic bread.

thats just for 1 day... different recipes everyday. Eat every 3 hours... if you think that its a heavy meal.. then just go for a bowl of fresh garden salad... or fruits... Easy rite? try it!

10 reasons why I think This Channel Sucks!!

[#klsex] topic- ' Welcome to #klsex Channel management & rule change: NO swearing, repeating, advertising, inviting, bad words , no sex and bad nicks/idents allowed i.e. This is a family oriented channel and NO sexual discussions are allowed.'

hahahhahah hahahahahha hahahahha hahahah hahhahahahahhhhhhaaaaaaaaaa..... excuse me!!
Is this some kind of joke?? this is the most ridiculous idea ... who ever came up with this new rule forgot to change one thing... THE NAME OF THE FREAKING CHANNEL!!!!! bravo genius!!!


10. It's a Family oriented channel... this means our parents, grandparents, husband/wife, uncles/aunties, cousins, nieces/nephews all chat here... like we don't get to see each other enough everyday.

9. It's not a place where you can meet new people... just the same people you see everyday...

8. There are no living and thinking op's active in this channel... well there might be a few but they... emmm... they dont really have a brain... so same thing.

7. Cant chat about sex ... (like anyone has ever chat about it in the main before... )

6. You cant say a bad word.. or your parents will find out! you will be banned and disowned by them...

5. You cant have the letter "xXx/xxx" in ur nick you WILL be banned from the channel and not be allowed to chat there ever again.. but it's ok to use nicks like abg_btg_tegang or ONS^guy or HardCoCk, abg8Inch ... Yea sure!! those are nice innocent nicks!!! hmmm I wonder what they mean...

4. No regular chatters! The script Ban real chatters and allow spambots to park in the channel.

3. Out of 100 nicks there are 4 op's (bots) and 96 spambots advertising porn sites.

2. For the 100th time.... It's not a freaking sex channel!!!! it's a family channel called KLSEX!!!! ok! it's all about family!!! got nothing to do with S.E.X! cant you understand???? what gave you the idea that it is??? read the title nicely KLSEX!!!

1. The new slogan...."KLSEX the family chat room.. It's all about Family"

heheh I cant think of anything else... let me know if u got any other reasons why this channel sucks.

do i have to write a title?? gosh I cant come up with one right now... sorry

I know I haven't been updating my blog, not that it matters coz I don't think anyone reads it, and those who do read it .. I really appreciate it... you guys are sweet! I mean it's not like we get to meet up now and then. It's hard to keep up with whats going on in our everyday life. Like everyone else I do want to share with my friends what goes on in my life. I hardly get a chance to use the computer, it's occupied most of his time. At times when I do get to use the computer, I spend most of my time reading mek, vadai and Lacy's blog... I have so many things to write about but I don't have enough time to do all that. I'm occupied with my work, therapy, running arr ons, grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning... at the end of the day I'm so exhausted and I'm normally in bed by 10pm. I'm managing my time a little bit better now... it's kind of the same routine from Monday to Friday. I have more time to myself during the weekends tho, so I'll try to make the best of it.