Passport Update

Once in a while when you travel quite often, you sometimes hear a meaningful insight during your travel. Mine was gotten from an old wise bearded man, who said in serene and calm manner, "Hey, you need to renew your passport, it’s almost expired". That man was an immigration officer.

So now I need to prepare a lot of documents to apply for the new passport. Unfortunately I couldn't remember which documents that I needed to prepare. Also, I heard that there was a new procedure.

But later I found the information on the Internet, which was made widely available for the public. It’s great that nowadays you can find any information on the Net, which is widely available and that means it also can't be trusted, because the website that gives me the important information that I needed also showed how I could buy Viagra on discounted price.
So I needed to dig further. And luckily I found the Indo Embassy website, in which I was able to find that there were two main improvements:
1. The fee was lower (SGD 40)
2. We could bring our own photo.

The lowering fee is always good, but being able to produce our own photo is really great.
Remember that in the past, no matter how long we spent in a salon, our passport photo always looked like we just woke up from a decompressed bedroom and our eyes were always closed?
Well, now no more.
We no longer need to let the embassy people to take our picture that make us look like a dork in our passport. No, now we can easily take the picture ourselves and make us look like a dork in our passport.

But apparently I need to take my photo in a certain way, which I am not so sure, and I also heard that I needed to take my pictures in an office at Orchard road. So I'll find out more about this and write more later.