Twice my age later...

I collected my brand new IC today!

Oh, if u didn't know yet, NRIC holders who are 30 yrs old on or after 1st Jan 2002 & who've not been issued with a replacement NRIC within the last 10 yrs (before reaching the age 30) will need to re-register for the NRIC.  Whatever that means!!  I juz know I'm 1 of those who fall under the above criteria since I got a letter from ICA!!

Yea...so last wkend I did my re-registration online ($10), had to change to a recent photo & I also took the opportunity to change the jawi character of my name.  Oh, u see, when Sis & I changed our NRICs at age 16, we wanted to have jawi characters for our names.  There was only 1 person who cld do it for us...my youngest (& fave) aunt who was arabic-educated!!  Years later, as I grow up & learn to read arabic/jawi, I wasn't too happy that my name was spelt wif a "sot" (So) instead of "shin" (Sh).  Weiii...my name is not pronounce as SOrbina ok...it's SHarbina!!!   Whatever the reason for the "sot", I lived wif it for 13 yrs. 

I didn't have jawi fonts in my PC, so I asked Sis for help.  I consulted her abt my unhappiness wif the "sot" (hers, SHarmila, was spelt wif a "sot" too!) & also that when I told Mom abt it she told me "Shin is used if your name is spelt as SYarbina"...which I told Sis I felt that was CRAP of an explanation!!  So Sis confessed that she got hers changed to "shin" too when she had to re-register her IC last yr!!  Whoeeehhhaaaa!! 

So...sweet Sis (whenever she takes on the role of protective-elder-Sis to me!) took the liberty to spell my name wif a "shin" instead of "sot".  She also sent me the link for the jawi fonts for me to d/load on my PC, just in case after doing my research with learned people, I wanna revert back to "sot" b4 I send my online registration.  Anyways, I got a notification 3 days later that my new NRIC is ready for collection from 28th Jul onwards, 2b collected within 2 wks from that date.  So since I'm only free this wkend, I went to collect it today.  Hey look....that's me in 1993....

..........and........twice my age later!!!