Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Trips down to the Australian High Commission

I went down to the Australian embassy twice already. It is located at Napier Road, within walking distance from Tanglin Mall, beside the American embassy and near British High Council. Going there only needs bus no. 132, followed by walking. The whole process is quite a pain, but you learn something new!

This is what you do before entering the embassy.
Firstly approach the guard house. Surrender all camera phones and cameras to the guard. He exchanges your belongings for a receipt to collect it later and a visitor's pass. Next, you walk into the guard house and place your bag onto the conveyor for scanning. Place any metallic objects into the tray and walk pass the metal detector. Just exactly like what they do for airport customs. Until the green signal says go, you go.

I found it very troublesome but what to do? When you are at gahmen places, there is no spot where you can pick your nose without them knowing. Haha

Anyway, I'm still in a dilemma. The Visa officer told me the visas may take a week or 2 to come. Do not know how true is that man. Argh so much thinking!! RARR!

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