Just in less than a couple of week, I will turn 22. And I am super happy about it. No, it’s not because I will celebrate my birthday, coz I won’t.
I am happy because 22 means I have become adult for five years, which means it’s time to change my ID card a.k.a. KTP (Kartu Tanda Penduduk).
Oh-my-freaking-dog, I’ve been waiting for this all of my life!!!
Yep, like you know, Indonesian citizens have to register for new ID every five years.
And my ID is suck!!! Let me tell you, when you get your new ID, laminate it properly, use professional service to do it.
When I got my first ID, my dad ironed it at home. And the result is, hiks, poor. When I knew it, I went to professional service to fix it, but it was too late.
The next thing happen, my ID was not my ID anymore. It was hi-jacked by a creepy creature! My wallet was soaked when I rushed in the rain without umbrella. My ID photo turns from human being to kinda of weird unrecognizeable alien. The alien only have right eye and unproper mouth, you can not tell whether it has a nose or not. Let’s just assume I have never had KTP for the last five years. Thanks GOD, my driving license has a nice picture^_^
All that happened in the very first month of my celebration-for-having-new-id. huhu…
In my birthday ever since, I kept counting, ok still four more years, still three more years, two years, one year, and finally the time has come to register for new ID, hooray!!!!
no, that's not meee!!!
Everytime I went under bussiness that needed ID, such as bank, academic registration, etc, the officers will look into my ID with furrow in their face (they tried to compare my face with the creepy creature on it). Of course it wasn’t look-a-like!! At the end they will asked for another ID card, hiks, embarassing! Sometimes the officer would try to torture me by asking how can I make the ID card so messy. HELLO, can’t u see it urself, doesn’t it obvious??? And what the hell why you have to ask??? Arrrghhh!!! Mind your own business!!! But that never came out of me, yet! Most of the time, I would just give a painful smile and they wouldn’t ask any further.
In another occasion when I met my abroad counterparts during international students’ festival or summer course, we always showed off each other’s passport (yeah, US passport is cool, it’s like a tourism book!) then student identity card, credit cards, and finally ID card. You see, how embarrassed I am, having this cursed ID card with the pic of unknown face on it.
So, this time it should be a perfect KTP with MY FACE on it. By the way, I will have national ID card this time (yes it’s the blue one with shape like a credit card), so at least I don’t have to worry about the laminating stuff, fiuhhh!!!
