All you need to know about renewing passport at Malaysia High Commission of Singapore

Disclaimer : all info correct as of 22nd April 2010, please verify them if necessary.

Location & Contact Details :
http://www.kln.gov.my/web/sgp_singapore/home
As of end of March 2010, they will only receive new passport application from Monday to Thursday (220 per day) and all passport will be ready for collection on Friday.

Things to prepare:
1. 2 blue background color photos (3.5cm x 5cm, passport size)
2. Original Malaysian IC and 1 photocopy of it (front and back)
3. Original SPR IC/student pass/employment pass etc. and 1 photocopy of it(front and back)
4. Completed IM42 form (can be collected at guard house for free or download online from IMI website. Please print this form in one sheet of paper as they don’t accept 2 sheet of papers.)
5. Cash SGD128 (subjected to change)
6. Your current passport (well, do I need to mention this?)

How to go (Map) :  
Take bus no. 32 from Redhill MRT station(or bus no 14 / 65 from orchard MRT) and alight at the bus stop opposite valley pt condo.(You can press the bell after you saw the Esso petrol station on your left hand side for bus no. 32) then walk along Jervios road (the road in between Esso and SPC petrol station) to reach Malaysia High Commission of Singapore.

If you plan to transfer your re-entry permit (REP) at ICA building personally, you can board bus no. 32 at the bus stop opposite valley pt condo too. However, you can actually transfer your REP to new passport via the online eServices from http://www.ica.gov.sg/

Some images for easier navigation :

Application Procedure :
1. Get a pass from the Guard house.

Things to take note : 
      a. they need one of your photo ID or credit card to exchange for a pass, please don’t give them your IC as you’ll need it later, give them your driving license etc. 
      b. Please don’t join the queue blindly as normally they’ll be two queues, one for getting pass at guard house another queuing to go in the high commission after you got your pass.

2. Queue at the side door and wait for security check to go in the high com.

3. Get all your forms ready and remember to stick your photos in the form, they will check before issue you a queue number. (special counter available for senior citizen and pregnant women)

4. After got your queue number, wait for your turn for submission of new passport application.

5. After submission, pay at the payment counter and they will tell you what time to go for collection on Friday. Voila, that’s it!

p/s : photocopy and self service photo taking available on the spot but it’s advisable get all your documents ready before you go to avoid long queue.


Things to take note for fill out the IM42 form:
Please fill out accordingly and take note of the following…

Page 1 : You only need to fill out your Singapore address in the “Alamat Semasa” section and remember to stick your photo and write your mobile number at the bottom part.

Page 2 : Remember to stick your photo and fill out current passport number. 

References :
http://tingwo.blogspot.com/2008/12/renew-passport-at-high-commission-of.html

As I had benefited a lot from others blog post so I think it’s good to write an updated version. Please feel free to copy and rewrite this post to a better one. Cheers!

say bye bye to tap input and say hello to gesture based text input from SlideIT , Swype , Shapewriter….

After I tried the gesture based data entry from SlideIT myself using my Windows Mobile(WM) phone yesterday. I’m quite convinced that tap typing input in mobile device(or smaller screen device) will soon be phased out. (well, at least for smart phone)

Initially, I really wanted to try Swype but it wasn’t available for every WM phone due to their business model(To my understanding , more incline to B-B instead of B-C). That’s completely alright for me so I try SlideIT which generally provide more or less the same thing.

Anyone who ever use WM will know that the basic input method provided from MS really leave a large room for developer to do something. Text input is generally a painful experience, so I’ll try to write as short as possible in my SMS. However, things change after I install slideIT. 

Simply put, it’s fast, it’s easy to learn, it’s cool. Using some sort of history term, you really can divide the “text input timeline” using BC and AD.

Some demo videos done by others from youtube:

SlideIT:

 

Swype:

 

Shapewriter:

All of these 3 input method are actually protected by some sort of “patent” thing but I’m not going to dig into that since it’s going to be a long debate. If you’re interested you can visit here instead.

Links to IEEE GOLD Webinar : A survival guide for scientific writing in the academic and professional environments

I find it quite useful by attending this webinar entitled “A survival guide for scientific writing in the academic and professional environments”

If you’re interested you also can take a recap on it from the following links:

Direct Link to this Webinar : https://admin.na5.acrobat.com/_a758482253/p41003999/

Q&A link : http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/membership/gold/events/PostScripts_from_Survival_Skills_for_Scientific_Writing.pdf

Hope this helps. Cheers.

Let’s support EARTH HOUR!

 
Sorry for not updating for so long but this one is very urgent…haha! Let’s do our bits for mother earth!! hope you can join too !!
To Sign up :http://earthhour.wwf.sg/signup_ind.php

More info:
http://earthhour.wwf.sg/about.php
http://www.earthhour.org/Homepage.aspx

Of course you can do more by :

• Taking lesser lift and use staircase more often. If your office or home located at level 16, you can take the lift to level 12 and use the staircase to reach your destination.
• Eat lesser meat or convert to vegetarian
• If the above are too hard to do for you… then simply bring your own bag when go shopping
• Taking public transport
• please add on yourself and the list goes on

马来西亚民主吗？

引用龙应台的文章：《为台湾民主辩护——与华人世界对话》

“民主，就是手上有一本护照，随时可以出国，不怕政府刁难；民主就是养了孩子知道他们可以凭自己本事上大学，不需要有特权；民主就是发表了任何意见不怕有人秋后算账；民主就是权利被侵犯的时候可以理直气壮地讨回，不管你是什么阶级什么身份；民主就是，不必效忠任何党，不必讨好任何人，也可以堂堂正正地过日子；民主就是到处有书店，没有任何禁书而且读书人写书人到处都是；民主就是打开电视不必忍受主播道德凛然地说谎；民主就是不必为了保护孩子而训练他从小习惯谎言；民主就是享受各种自由而且知道那自由不会突然被拿走，因为它不是赐予的。

民主并非只是选举投票，它是生活方式，是思维方式，是你每天呼吸的空气、举手投足的修养，个人回转的空间。这，在小方格窗里是看不到的。所以如果你对小方格里的混乱失望，不要忘记，真正的民主在生活里，在方格以外的纵深和广度里。”

全文：http://www.zaobao.com/special/china/taiwan/pages6/taiwan150404.html

如果龙应台对民主的认知和定义无误，哪我想在我有生之年民主不会在马来西亚落实。

其实。。。情人节的前一天才是重点，你懂吗？

本来我们计划在行华人婚礼同一天注册的，可是。。我还是先注册了。。牢骚已经在那里发过了，所以在这里就不写了。有兴趣就去看看吧。。没兴趣就请帮忙我们想想去哪里度蜜月又经济又实惠又好玩吧。。。先谢啦！

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