Thursday, June 12, 2008
3 sugar rolls and i feel like vomiting
need to find an urn, haha.
right, i had a rough day. and i really try not to blog when i'm in a bad mood, but i buay tahan liao.
and do you actually want to know why i'm so crabby? no. no, you don't. like i always go "you wouldn't want to know". but this time, i don't care, i'm going to bomb it on you. Because you
should care.
i hate australia. yes, i
HATE australia and their bloody student visa and over the top immigration rules and i do not want to go to that anal retentive hell hole. i may be really free nowadays, but i am definitely NOT care free. i've worried and stressed over this shit for a really long time, so many wasted trips and missed calls sent to people who don't even bother picking their phones up.
see, to apply for my visa, i've got to apply for two COE codes first, the first is for my foundation year, the second is for the rest of my course. so well, once i've had the two COEs, i've got to do an online application for the visa. but after filling in all my details and all (which is a hell lot to fill in btw), and after inserting my COE codes, they tell me that i cannot proceed to the next step cus my COE codes are invalid.
so there's this company, which is called IDP, which is paid to help people switch to studying in australia and settle accomodation and all that. yeah, so we got them to help us, and an agent is appointed to each student.
so my agent called up the university and got me a new COE code, but only the second one is new cus he thinks that the problem lies with that one. so with the new COEs, i tried the application again, but again, they still told me that the COE codes were invalid. so i got back to my agent and he told me to send an email to the visa people telling them about the problem. and i did, and like two weeks later, i still didn't get a reply yet, and i was worried and annoyed and all and i checked my sent mailbox and realised that the email didn't even get sent, i have no idea why. and i spent a pretty long time drafting out a good email to them somemore.
so i sent them another email and made sure that one got through, then two days later they replied with a generic email which didn't help at all. i was pretty fed up so i just forwarded the reply to my agent thinking that he would know what to do. but he didn't reply.
a few days later, my agent called me and told me he realised that when i applied for my COE codes (note, not visa, COE codes), my birhtdate was stated 2nd october. which is why they were invalid. and he made it seem as though it was my fault cus he assumed i was the one who filled the COE application. all i could say was "heh, i didn't realise it too" but i was really really mad cus i know that i wasn't the one who applied for the COE codes, it was my dad. like hell, i'm sure i would jolly well know what my own birthdate is.
so my agent got me a new COE code to replace the first one (the second one has the correct birthdate cus he already replaced it before). so now the two COEs should be valid right? but when i tried doing the online application for the visa for the hundredth time, they still told me the codes were invalid. and when i told my agent this, all he could say was "sure or not!" so, i went down to IDP to do the application in front of him even though i know the COE codes were invalid. and dengdengdeng! the COE codes were indeed invalid. so my agent called up the visa people on the spot and they basically couldn't help and he told me to go home and send another email.
i went home and sent another email with my COE forms scanned in and all, this time i got a proper reply saying that on the forms, my birthdate was 2nd october, although when i look at the thing, it clearly says 1st. so yes, this whole resentment against my dad and him mixing up my birthdate arose again. like
i am the only one born on the 1st, brother and sister - 2nd. middle kid-1st, everyone else-2nd. is that so hard to remember? and if he hadn't mixed up our birthdate, everything would be fine and dandy ages ago. and until now, he doesn't even know he messed up the applications real bad, i don't see why i should bother telling him.
so i forwarded the reply to my agent and i haven't heard from him since. and this was about a week ago. this is so annoying cus my agent is so hard to contact. he never picks up his phone and whenever i leave a voicemail, he never calls back either. and whenever i go down personally, their office is soooo chaotic, the phones are ringing all the time and there are so many people coming to look for agents, it actually reminds me of the school's staffroom, and nobody seems to be able to help you.
mother has taken things into her own hands and has been asking me to fill weird and extremely elaborated forms out and today we went to the Australia High Commission and my mum says that things are rather settled. and even though things are settled, i would still like to say that
i
HATE australia.
Bitch.
GONE SHOPPING, 6/12/2008 11:02:00 pm
