Club 30's "Kill The Boredom Demon" Jive Pad, 74th Edition
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
Ta! The blardy bozo's in the Aussie Immigration Dept... I sent them my documents as JPEG docs as stipulated, and I've received an auto reply three weeks later saying that it's not in the format they can accept, please re-send in JPEG.
They ARE JPEG's in the first place!!!
you ever see CAAS?they insist you send in documents in softcopy to them.. but they refuse to accept documents in .pdf.. at all..
you should send in .doc format..
thing is, the document must be signed.. so how the hell is it going to be a .doc format?
if we insert a scanned signature, it's kind of stupid right?
worse, they insist on a letterheaded document.. and the file must be below 90kB
most of all, they refuse to accept faxed documents too..
now.. go on.. complain about the australian immigration department...
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Originally posted by elindra:
y a.jpg is jpeg
microsoft assign .jpg & .jpeg to jpeg files .....
just like .mp3 is for mp3 files .....
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Originally posted by InnoHippo:
is the file size or dimensions of picture conforming to their requirements?
or must rename from ".jpg" to ".jpeg"?
They had no other requirements except that documents be scanned as JPEG's / PDF / BMP. Blardy idiotic, the way they function! Their auto emails give extremely conflicting instructions! One minute, they gave me a heart attack saying all documents must be scanned and submitted by a certain date, the next minute, they send another email saying they are inundated with applications and a case officer has not yet been assigned to me yet so my case is "Pending"!
They made me panic about my CID background check not being able to be processed on time to meet the deadline, and then the next minute, they say, if you're asking for a Police Clearance from Singapore, you need to wait for a Case Officer to send you a letter from the Immigration Dept first.
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Originally posted by elindra:
y a.jpg is jpeg
Ta! Can you tell I'm dealing with idiots here?
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
Ta! Can you tell I'm dealing with idiots here?
maybe the filename must be in capital letters .....
eg. IDIOT.JPG or IDIOTS.JPEG
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Originally posted by the Bear:
you ever see CAAS?they insist you send in documents in softcopy to them.. but they refuse to accept documents in .pdf.. at all..
you should send in .doc format..
thing is, the document must be signed.. so how the hell is it going to be a .doc format?
if we insert a scanned signature, it's kind of stupid right?
worse, they insist on a letterheaded document.. and the file must be below 90kB
most of all, they refuse to accept faxed documents too..
now.. go on.. complain about the australian immigration department...
I have never encountered plain stupidity as bad as since I came over here and had to deal with the services here. I actually make sure I've popped my anti-hypertensive pills first before making the phone calls.
Once, I even managed to prepare ingredients and cook instant noodles whilst being kept on hold on the phone. Supreme foolishness is when I'm HERE in Australia, have been living and working here, but I cannot apply as an Onshore Candidate. Rather, I'm considered an Offshore Applicant! My Aussie friends' jaws all dropped when they heard that, and when I told them that when Immigration is ready to hand me my PR, I have to fly away to anywhere else, even it's just to neighbouring New Zealand for just a day, then return to Australia, and ta-daaaah! they will hand me my PR.
Because they make us apply as Offshore Candidates, technically, we're not supposed to be here, even though we are here legally! So we have to fly away, and fly back, just to fulfill the "offshore" tag! Onshore Candidates are people who have studied in the Australian Universities here, and no one else. So as far as they are concerned, although I'm physically here, I don't exist, I might as well be a wandering ghost here because to them, I'm actually physically in Singapore!
I have achieved the impossible - simultaneous teleportation!! 
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Originally posted by LOTUSfairy:
why do you think i call it "parasitic fungus" ?seriously... you didn't know?
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
I have never encountered plain stupidity as bad as since I came over here and had to deal with the services here. I actually make sure I've popped my anti-hypertensive pills first before making the phone calls.
Once, I even managed to prepare ingredients and cook instant noodles whilst being kept on hold on the phone. Supreme foolishness is when I'm HERE in Australia, have been living and working here, but I cannot apply as an Onshore Candidate. Rather, I'm considered an Offshore Applicant! My Aussie friends' jaws all dropped when they heard that, and when I told them that when Immigration is ready to hand me my PR, I have to fly away to anywhere else, even it's just to neighbouring New Zealand for just a day, then return to Australia, and ta-daaaah! they will hand me my PR.
Because they make us apply as Offshore Candidates, technically, we're not supposed to be here, even though we are here legally! So we have to fly away, and fly back, just to fulfill the "offshore" tag! Onshore Candidates are people who have studied in the Australian Universities here, and no one else. So as far as they are concerned, although I'm physically here, I don't exist, I might as well be a wandering ghost here because to them, I'm actually physically in Singapore!
I have achieved the impossible - simultaneous teleportation!! it's actually like that everywhere..
you cannot have more than 1 status in a country.. and you need to "terminate" that status in the country by leaving it before you are allowed another status..
well, Singapore, being Singapore, we've done away with it..
most countries do not..
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Originally posted by InnoHippo:
maybe the filename must be in capital letters .....
eg. IDIOT.JPG or IDIOTS.JPEG
OK, because they hold the power to accept or reject my application, I can't be too sarcastic with my reply but I had to try really hard and contort myself to prevent myself from calling them idiots!
"Dear Sirs,
SCANNED DOCUMENTS IN JPEG FORMAT
I received an email from your dept today, claiming that the scanned documents I sent could not be opened because it was not in the correct format.
Please note that the attached documents are all JPEG's (.jpg) and as such, you should be able to access them. I sent JPEG (.jpg) documents with my previous email as per instructions, and I am amused to receive your email rejecting my scanned JPEG documents as such.
For your convenience, I have re-attached all the previously sent scanned JPEG documents. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.
Best regards,"Hmm... I think that's polite enough.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
why do you think i call it "parasitic fungus" ?seriously... you didn't know?
i really dun know...
it thought it was the root/stem of a "vege/mushroom" family..
its called 冬蟲��. got the grass word wat.!
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what is 蜆精?
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Am thinking of buying those good quality balloons, ship it over to Phuket and have my little sister twist balloons for chairty events.
And some of those light sticks kinda bracelets for her to give to her friends and relatives up at the Northern Thailand. It will be a blast!
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Originally posted by LOTUSfairy:
i really dun know...
it thought it was the root/stem of a "vege/mushroom" family..
its called 冬蟲��. got the grass word wat.!
i thought it's some worm that got infested and became a vegetable? -
Originally posted by the Bear:
it's actually like that everywhere..
you cannot have more than 1 status in a country.. and you need to "terminate" that status in the country by leaving it before you are allowed another status..
well, Singapore, being Singapore, we've done away with it..
most countries do not..
Well, isn't that being mighty efficient and logical of Singapore then?
I would be hard-pressed to find solid justification for NOT complaining about the Immigration here.
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
Well, isn't that being mighty efficient and logical of Singapore then?
I would be hard-pressed to find solid justification for NOT complaining about the Immigration here.
and people in other countries take it..here, because of a rush during holidays to get passports, we take more than 5 working days to process one, we kena complained..
ask any australian how long it takes for processing of and how much is their passport.. and then get shocked..
btw, our staff gets abused at our side.. because the travellers get abused at the other side..
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So lewd! I'm so glad that Aussie couple decided to take their antics elsewhere!
Some man on his lunch break must have decided to meet his slutty girlfriend, andn he then drove them to park right under my apartment, of all places, where they made a lot of loud noises, so I went over to the window and saw the man sitting in his front seat, arms behind his head, looking happy. At first, I was wondering where the female was, because her loud voice could be heard when they were shouting-talking. Then, omigosh... she was giving him a blowjob, in broad daylight, opposite a construction site with construction workers milling about!!!
As if that weren't enough, she challenged him to get out of the car, which he did, then she hopped and put her legs around his waist and he carried her around, then pinned her onto the wall and they continued talking dirty (I presume cause they got a tad softer) and they finally decided to drive off (thank God!).
Shameless!
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
So lewd! I'm so glad that Aussie couple decided to take their antics elsewhere!
Some man on his lunch break must have decided to meet his slutty girlfriend, andn he then drove them to park right under my apartment, of all places, where they made a lot of loud noises, so I went over to the window and saw the man sitting in his front seat, arms behind his head, looking happy. At first, I was wondering where the female was, because her loud voice could be heard when they were shouting-talking. Then, omigosh... she was giving him a blowjob, in broad daylight, opposite a construction site with construction workers milling about!!!
As if that weren't enough, she challenged him to get out of the car, which he did, then she hopped and put her legs around his waist and he carried her around, then pinned her onto the wall and they continued talking dirty (I presume cause they got a tad softer) and they finally decided to drive off (thank God!).
Shameless!
cool.. you should have recorded it and then sold the footage to the papers or some pr0n site or something
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Originally posted by the Bear:
and people in other countries take it..here, because of a rush during holidays to get passports, we take more than 5 working days to process one, we kena complained..
ask any australian how long it takes for processing of and how much is their passport.. and then get shocked..
btw, our staff gets abused at our side.. because the travellers get abused at the other side..
And that is why, when you quote the CAAS example, I insisted that there's nothing like good ol' Aussie inefficiency.
Singapore, at it's slowest, is still faster than Australia. There is really no basis for comparison because it's simply different leagues! Five days to process a passport is unheard of here!
Reminds me of a friend who worked for a Ministry here. She was told to prepare some documents "Urgently"! So, she rushed to do her job, and presented the document by the end of the day, which shocked everybody! They asked her why she was in such a hurry, and she said, "Well, you said "Urgent!"" And they looked shocked again, then said something like, "Erm... 'urgent' means within the next few days!" -
Originally posted by the Bear:
cool.. you should have recorded it and then sold the footage to the papers or some pr0n site or something
They are nobodies... and lewd things are commonplace here. You forget where I am now.
On weekend nights, I walk home after work and pass by a gay bar on the way, and usually on time to watch gay couples leave kissing and pawing each other. Brrrrr!!! I can never get used to seeing two macho men kissing each other! 
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
They are nobodies... and lewd things are commonplace here. You forget where I am now.
On weekend nights, I walk home after work and
pass by a gay bar on the way, and usually on time to watch gay
couples leave kissing and pawing each other. Brrrrr!!!
I can never get used to seeing two macho men kissing each
other! I don't suppose you caught "brokeback mountain" ? ...
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Originally posted by hisoka:
i thought it's some worm that got infested and became a vegetable?At least your idea is pretty close. I was told by some Chinese lady know-it-all sum-goo-lok-por type who says that the Dong Cong Cao (Cordyceps) is actually a Worm in Summer, which morphs into an herb in Winter.
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Originally posted by Fatum:
I don't suppose you caught "brokeback mountain" ? ...
Not yet... I'm building up my Anti-Nausea factor first.
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Oh soooo cuuuute!! Am watching Animal Planet where I just learnt that Meerkats have their own 'solar panels'! They have a darker patch of skin underneath their bellies that help to retain heat in the day, to keep them warm at night!
They are into Energy Conservation too! -
Originally posted by Rhonda:
And that is why, when you quote the CAAS example, I insisted that there's nothing like good ol' Aussie inefficiency.
Singapore, at it's slowest, is still
faster than Australia. There is really no basis for comparison
because it's simply different leagues! Five days to process a passport is unheard of here!
Reminds me of a friend who worked for a
Ministry here. She was told to prepare some documents
"Urgently"! So, she rushed to do her job, and presented the
document by the end of the day, which shocked everybody! They
asked her why she was in such a hurry, and she said, "Well, you
said "Urgent!"" And they looked shocked again, then said something
like, "Erm... 'urgent' means within the next few days!"
I was so pissed at the inefficiency in aussie when i went there the last time. But after awhile got used to it and sort of liked the laidbackness