My friend and I went to Neihu area (where Indonesian embassy located) yesterday to accompany another friend of us who wanted to renew his passport. Since we finished our class at 12.15, added the extra time to walk and to have our lunch, we ended left shinjuang at about 1.30PM. We were a bit rushing also as the office will be closing at 3PM. It was, however, a long journey just to reach the embassy itself. We gotta change transportation from bus to train and back to bus. The second bus even took some time to come..
Anyways, after (finally) reaching the embassy office, it was already 2.45PM. And thank God it was still open. Then we queued for his turn to go to the counter.. Nah, this is the disappointing thing about it.. The officer there told him that his documents were not complete, he basically also wanted my friend's birth certificate (which I find it really weird..). As a student who's just here to study, my friend bien sur did not bring along his birth cert. here, which now making it more difficult for him to renew his passport. And he does not have the copy of it with his family too.. Besides, I think passport is already a valid document of yourself and it's acknowledged worldwide as the formal identity of a person.
But anywho, I am not quiet sure now how is he gonna renew his passport, but most probably he might go back to Indonesia during the holiday to renew it.
On another note, I found another weird thing about the embassy..
Look at the picture below...
From the picture above, we UNDERSTAND that the office hours is from 9.00 - 17.30.But inside you'll find another note stating:
Okay, maybe here they specify it more that 09.30 - 15.00 is for certain services.But.. still.. I found it awkward to know that there's such a very short working hours.
You see, from 9.30 to 11.30 = 2 hours, and 13.30 to 15.00 = 1.5 hours.
Which means, in total, the working hours equal to 3.5 hours..
Can you believe that? 3.5 hours for 5 days (if no holidays). Let's do a bit of maths..
3.5 x 5 = 17.5 hours a week! Wow, everyone would love to work like that then.. with (which I guess) a good amount of salary and a nice living here.
And fyi, they close the counter's curtain exactly when the clock's needles stop at 3 and 12..
So on-time kan.. And I guess they might not entertain you after that hour even though you've been waiting for your turn.. If they do, that should be something good, shouldn't it? :p
p.s: this is only my point of view. No offense ^^,
ooppss.... Am I sensing a sarcasm here? haha~~ XD
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