Registration of Marriage!!!

by Errolyn

On 3 Jan 09, Ju Han and I started the journey. To Putrajaya - the Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara (Registration Department) to be exact. In Precinct 2 - to be precise.

Which I knew but forgot til I drove past the Precinct 2 turnoff and got a funny feeling. Anyway, we drove on to the area with the Jabatan - jabatan Kerajaan which is Precinct 1 I think and had ourselves a merry go round - you know that place which is actually a giant roundabout that also has turnoffs to the Jabatan Perdana Menteri and Alamanda. We drove into an Informasi booth which was supposed to be open from 8.30am on Saturdays but....nope, they were not open and the ladies restrooms left much to be desired.

We asked a guard who gave us directions in a very confident manner and told us the Jabatans were closed this Sat. Too bad he was wrong on both accounts. This is me we are talking about here - of course I called up to check if they were open ahead of time!!!!!

We asked another guard at Alamanda finally and arrived at the correct place at ummmm 10.10am - a good 1 hour 30 mins after we started. I was afraid we'd have to wait a long long while but miracle of miracles, we got all done in a half hour.

I had to go to the 2nd floor to change the address on my MyKad chip to a PJ address so I could submit to register my marriage in Putrajaya. I can understand why it's not effective or efficient or a plain ole good idea to merge the whole database of Malaysia so that all citizens are trackable and records are accessible anywhere in the country - it's a question of personal freedom right? We wouldn't want Big Brother to be watching us all the time. God forbid that I can get anything done officially in KL if my official records state I am a Penangite! ....!!!! .....!!!!!

So we paid RM2 to get that done - I didn't have to wait. Then we traisped down to the 1st floor to submit our application for registration. Ananthi was very nice, very efficient, very smiley and VERYVERY helpful! Y'see, we wanted to register on 30.01.09 as all the family will be here - parents and sis.....But horrors, they had already closed the day with like 15-20 couples. But she pushed us in - yes!!! she pushed us in. So that was just fantastic. Cos we wanted to choose an auspicious date.

Hehehehe, that's another thing off the checklist - Registration Date 30 Jan 2009! I have almost decided what I want to wear and paired Ju Han off. AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!