Happy too early
You won’t know how happy and excited I was when I got my mail via DHL last week. I immediately suggested my boy to go Kuching on that night (Wednesday night) instead of Thursday night, cause the sooner we settle this step the better it is. It turn up to be the best decision ever cause last Friday was a public holiday (offices closed) and we totally forgotten about it. Imagine if we went there on Thursday night instead, whew..
So, we took the midnight bus, departed on 1am due to 30 minutes delay and arrived around 7am the next day. My father-in-law fetched us from the bus station and sent us to Indonesia embassy after breakfast.
I was so confident that I have ALL the necessary documents in hand and will surely get the Surat Keterangan on that day itself. Turns up we still lacked of: the photocopy of my parent-in-law’s IC – which is not a big deal at all, and one more stamp & signature from Medan subdistrict/kecamatan which is very jialat. Hello, just lack of one more stamp! *frustration mode on*
On another side, the lady staff insisted that she did give the check-list (of what documents that we need to bring in order to obtain that Surat Keterangan from her) to us. Not only that, she also claimed that she remembered my boy’s face and not me. Wtf? I can have a very different face in 3 months time without plastic surgery? -__-”
Me: No, you never gave the list to us. Cause last few months when we came here, I was a Buddhist and he was a Christian. You said that different religion cannot obtain the letter and we have to go back Indonesia to make the marriage certificate. I went back but same thing, they don’t allow different religion hence I changed.
She: Ohhh, I’m sorry. no wonder I didn’t give the list to you guys because you were having different religion.
Oh my, can bang head to the wall. After the tiring 6 hours journey by bus, we ended up with NOTHING! Ok, see the bright side at least now we know what document we are lacking of. I just need to wait for my parent to get that necessary stamping and send via DHL to me. Another waiting. At least 4 to 5 days or more than that thanks to Xmas for falling on Friday.
On a gloomy side, I forgot to leave my IC’s photocopy for my parent while they need it right now, so that they can get the stamp ASAP. To make thing worse, my bro is still at school. Need to wait until he is back at 3pm to print out my attachment via email. Can’t help but to waste one day. Regret why I never spare my time to teach my parent on how to use computer and email, while my Dad has been nagging me to teach him for quite some time. Sigh.
My tourist visa is about to expired in 12 days time. It doesn’t help that Christmas and New Year falls on Friday which means we only have 4 working day for this 2 weeks. How to settle stuff like this? I definitely need someone to help me extend the visa until we can get the marriage certificate and obtain the spouse visa. Good thing, we bumped into my boy’s old friend who can help me to extend, while we were waiting for bus that night. What a coincidence eh?
Taking a deep breath, hopefully we can get the certificate before Chinese New Year, cause I need to file it at Indonesia marriage department when I go back around CNY. After that only both of us can breath well and say that we have settled down. 
