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The forms have reached the immigration department and they have sent me an email to acknowledge my application.The final waiting begins.
Application forms for the permanent residency visa were sent today via DHL. ETA is 24 April 2008.This would be step 4 of 5 of the migration plan, and it will have the longest waiting time of the whole process.I'm hoping to be granted the visa by October, although waiting times can be as long as a year or two. I still feel pretty optimistic though.But it remains to be seen if …
The day before I thought I resolved the first snag, a letter was sent to me and reached me earlier this week.Basically, the certified true copies of my documents were not dated, and they also wanted a work statement from me. I have resubmitted the documents, but am stalling on the work statement since one was attached with the initial application and now they want another? …
It's common for male doctors to ask female nurses out, but it's rare for male nurses to do the same to female doctors.I've never heard it happen, until I became the protagonist recently.***Doctor X invited the nurses and some doctors out for a meal to celebrate the ending of a horrible attachment. Plans were made, date and time were set, and all systems seemed ready to …
I was asked by a colleague to join him for a strip club outing tonight. That's the second time in five days I've been invited. I politely declined. I'm not really a fan of paying good money to get my dick hard with no happy endings. There's so much free porn on the Internet that you wonder why people will want to pay for titillation. I guess there's just no substitute for …
It's just a cage adults make children race towards so that they may one day be as miserable as them.***I hate being cursed with a conscience.***Seems like she has found a job over there. With a 'brand name' company too. Good for her! Fly high and fly free, Bean!
I never really liked Popeyes' chicken back on the island, despite raving reviews from my friend. I've always been a KFC man. But since there was a Popeyes restaurant just a few minutes away from my hotel, I decided to give it another go. I ordered the 'spicy' flavour version (there's also a 'mild' one), and I must say it tasted pretty good. Doesn't have oil dripping off …
People are getting married later in their lives, and it would not be a stretch to say that single women who are in their 30s to 40s are often looking for a serious partner. They are perhaps looking to settle down, and are looking for men who want the same things. However, the men in that age group might not be ready, and who could blame them? Men in their 30s are often …
Molest, as defined by the OS X Leopard dictionary widget, is "assault, or abuse (a person, esp. a woman or child) sexually".To me, when someone goes up to a woman and rubs himself against …
If you haven't been living inside a cave for the past year or so, then you should have heard of Randy Pausch. He is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon, and late last year he gave a lecture on how to live one's life. The YouTube video of that lecture has been viewed 2.82 million times as I write this.As an 'extension' to that lecture, he has followed up with a …
14:15, 12 May 2008.Second day of my stay in Chengdu. Sitting on a comfy sofa at Starbucks in Jin Li. Just finished Oprah magazine and a caramel ice blended. Decided to walk back and check out an ice skating ring since there's more than an hour to go before I meet my friend.14:27, 12 May 2008.At a traffic junction, about 5 mins away from intended destination. A bus drove by, …
The past two weeks were not good, psychologically. From the signs and symptoms a layman would be able to diagnose that I was depressed.It feels like I'm having a terminal illness... everybody and everything is seen with a touch of nostalgia and I can't help wondering, at times, if that would be the last I see of the thing/person. As a result I have been feeling angsty, …
This is from a psychiatrist and her husband based on their counselling of marriages. Don't shoot the messenger, i.e. me.Women want what they see romanticized on TV and in films. Women are usually not as affected financially by a divorce and therefore in today's society less likely to work towards fixing the marriage.Marriage is hard work, period. But nowadays, people want …
A colleague, who applied 20 days before me, got a reply stating that a transcript with the theoretical and clinical hours of the course is required. What we had were only a transcript stating our results.Thus begin another scramble to meet yet another requirement.Freedom. I will fight for it. I will not give it up.
Uncertainty, in itself, is neither a good thing nor a bad thing. It is simply the way life is. While uncertainty means that you may get a bad outcome in the future, it also means that you may get a good outcome, one that is better than you had expected or hoped for.Thus you can see the game of life as one of managing risks and probabilities. For each potential course of …
There's a TGIF restaurant just across the road from the hotel, but despite the proximity I didn't eat at the place until my fourth week here. I ordered a fried Mac & Cheese (USD$6.99) for my appetizer: There were six of these cubes on the rectangular plate. The fried skin was too thick I felt, while the mac & cheese inside could scald your tongue if you were not …
The sun's pretty searing here in Melbourne, but the low humidity makes it bearable. I found a number of small moles on my face, chest and arms last night, which caused a slight alarm. It's definitely not caused by the sun here in Florida, but I think it's time to lay off the topless running after I return. The shops are very spaced apart here, and because I don't drive, …
That's how much it will cost to go to space. Definitely more bragging rights than that latest Lamborghini.
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