As the due date grows closer, I decided to get my IC changed. The main problem I faced is the IC office is usually jam packed and I don’t want to wait in line for hours. Even for small town like Taiping, the line could grow up to a fews hours of waiting time. An opportunity came when I visited Malacca for my wife’s cousin wedding. We got wind that a new registration office at the suburb of Malacca don’t have any crowd at all, and the experience of making the new ID was pleasant.

Me, my wife, and her siblings jump on this opportunity and went to the registration office. There were no line, when we arrived, we went straight to the counter and asked to renew our IC. The guy there greeted us pleasantly and instructed us to write down some info and straighten our hair and start to take our photos, immediately after that, we got our thumb scanned, waited for a minute and the guy over the counter asked where we want to collect our IC? We contemplated and said at this office. Apparently, we have a choice to collect at any of the country’s registration office. Since we are living and working in Penang, it would be easier to collect it in Penang, but the Penang registration office in downtown has bad parking problems, and we decided to collect at this same location as we go to Malacca almost every month.

Back to the story, after some jokes with the officers there, we were on our way out. The entire experience took less than 10 minutes. This was 4 months back. Last weekend we went back to the registration office to get our brand new IC (Identity Card). Again, it was easy and fast, we just surrender our current IC, and whola, got our brand new IC immediately. The entire experience was less than 5 minutes. It was all good, till we saw our face on the IC. The print quality was appalling. Not only I look like a ‘load shark’ (along), the color, shading and contrast was so bad that I am afraid the entire picture would fad away after a year of usage. In recent news there were promises by the government to improve the quality of the ID. But I guess that does not include my batch. I wonder if we could ask for a change, since the picture of my wife’s ID did not look much like her, and any Chinese looking girl could use her IC and pass as her.

All in all, we were pleased of the entire experience, just that the quality of the ID was bad and felt like the government was being ripped off.

The dateline is just round the Corner, go get yours done today to avoid having to pay for it.

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