expiration date 

to celebrate ari’s birthday, we went to the ICA to take care of Aina’s permanent residence. just kidding. well, it’s still ari’s birthday, but we didn’t do anything special to celebrate… maybe this weekend, we’ll do something more interesting than going to immigration office.

happy birthday, hun!

anyways, we had to go the ICA to take care of Aina’s permit to stay in Singapore. the place is crowded as usual, so it’s quite a hassle to bring Aina along with us. but we have to anyway, because the officer has to match the photo of the applicant with the real person.

it took us about 3 hour-ish to do complete the whole process. this means, i had to feed Aina at the immigration office. and i have to say that the ICA building has a pretty nasty baby room, at least on their 5th floor. the seat was dirty, the floor was sticky and the room was very small. the seat only fits two people and they were too close to the changing table. you can’t really fit more than 3 people in the room, with one standing up. when i was feeding Aina, there were lines of 3 mothers and they’re restless babies, trying to get into the room. poor babies…

to make it worse, this room is right in front of the bathroom, with the seat facing the doorway. i find it quite funny that most guys who comes in and out of the bathroom always glance into the room and turned away awkwardly after seeing two mother breastfeeding.

i hope, the other baby room on other floors are better…

so, about Aina’s PR itself, it will take three months to process. and during those three months, Aina can’t leave the country… unless we don’t mind repeating the process all over again, including take Aina back to the ICA building…. so, there goes the plan to go visit relatives in Jakarta next month. i guess, the earliest we can go is December 2007…