Renewing/ Applying Passport in Putrajaya

Our little family is going on a vacay this February to the land of the rising sun.
*woohoo
*throws confetti
*bunny hopping

Boy oh boy, you don't know how excited I am *cue tears of joy.
It's my first oversea trip since motherhood! The last time I went overseas was before I got pregnant. That's like, more than 2 years ago!?


So, what's the one thing you need before flying aboard?

✔ Passport

Mine was already expired and Charlotte needs to apply one. So since I was on mandatory leave, on the 29th of Dec 2016, I took Charlotte to the Immigration Office in Putrajaya to renew/ apply a new passport.

Here are the list of things you need.

Documents needed to renew passport for adults

1. ♥ RM200 cash (valid for 5 years)
2. ♥ Expiring/ expired passport
3. ♥ MyKad

I'm not sure about other immigration offices but if you’re renewing your passport in Putrajaya, there’s no need to bring your photo anymore as they are now equipped with sophisticated Canon digital camera facility. Kindly wear a dark-coloured top as your photo will be shown as black and white in the passport. If you wear a light-coloured top, you will be requested to wear a blazer that they prepared for you to take the photo.

I wore a dark-coloured Superman shirt that day 😁

Documents needed to apply passport for your kid below 12

1. ♥ RM100 cash (valid for 5 years)
2. ♥ Birth certificate
3. ♥ MyKid (just in case)
4. ♥ 1 hard-copy passport photo with white background. Forehead and ears must be visible in the photo.

If you forget to get your child(ren)'s photo taken, you can go to the building just across the road from Menara Ikhlas. Take the elevator and go up to the 2nd floor. There is a little shop with photo-taking service. It cost RM15 for 4 photos.

Charlotte's first passport photo ❤

**Note (Passport price)-
60 years old & above: RM100
12 years old & below: RM100
Students studying abroad: RM100

The Immigration Office in Putrajaya is in Menara Ikhlas.

If you're driving there, you can search for the location using Waze. Just simply key in Menara Ikhlas, Putrajaya. There's plenty of free parking around there so don't worry about not being able to find a parking spot.

Once you enter the building, you will see Gloria Jean's coffee and myeg at the lobby. Take the elevator up to the 3rd floor.

There're 2 immigration offices on that floor. Make sure you go to Bahagian Pasport.

I was told by a couple of friends that the new system has improved and the service is more effective. They basically waited less 2 hours to get everything done including collection of passpport. So I went there hopeful as I had a movie marathon plan later that day.

Unfortunately, we had no such luck.

The office opens at 7.30am. When we reached there at 8.15am, it was already very crowded. Maybe it's end of the year and everyone's on leave, too?

I still had my hopes high cause I have Charlotte with me. Since she's under 12, we would be attended by Kaunter Khas (special counters for children and senior citizens).

We waited almost an hour before our numbers were called. Maybe they had 2 counters opened instead of 3 (counter 8, 9 and 10)?

While waiting, I had a very unsettled toddler struggling to get off me all. the. time.

After our number was called, the process was pretty fast. Thumbprint, verify, verify, take photo, verify, sign, thumbprint, done lol if I'm not mistaken. But then comes another waiting time - to wait for our (same) numbers being called to make payment at counter 23 or 24. Sigh 😒

I think we waited another half an hour. Luckily, since Charlotte is under 2 years old, she doesn't need to be present during the collection. So after I made the payment, I quickly sent her to her nursery in Cyberjaya and we made it just in time for her lunch.

I then had my first meal somewhere nearby while waiting for the hour to pass.

I went back 10 minutes past an hour and hallelujah, our passport were ready to be collected. But there were no officer at the window so I had to wait 😑 Counter for collection is at counter 19, 20 or 21.

How my passport photos evolved throughout the years lol (top to bottom : the latest to the oldest)

The place is actually equipped with a play area for kids.

And a nursing room for breastfeeding moms. Have to give credit for these facilities.

By the time I collected our passport, it was already 12pm. I expected to get everything done by 11am but oh well. I still got to catch 2 movies with my husband who met up with me at the mall later.

Hope this info is useful if you're planning to renew your passport at Putrajaya.

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Brow and Eyeliner Embroidery by Jasimin Juliet De Silva

Nowadays it seems like every other girl have had eyebrow embroidery done! It's like a beauty trend that makes your life so much easier without having to wake up an extra 20 minutes just to get those brows drawn perfectly.

I started trimming my brows when I was 16. I went to those beauty saloon where the beautician would plug and shave the brows and charges rm5 for each service. I used to go every 2 months. Before the next visit, I would try to do it myself at home until I feel they're obviously imbalanced lol.

At the age of 18, I naively went to get my brows tattooed. And boy, one side was extremely thin and has an high arch, it looked horrible! The beautician who tattooed for me blamed it on the shape of my brow, saying it was higher hence she couldn't draw properly and balance the 2 brows so it has to be that way. 無得救 already. BULL SHIT LA! I didn't know why I kept myself quiet but I should have asked for another beautician to do it for me. When I went for touch up later, her other colleague was also shocked to see how imbalanced my brows were and tried her best to help me balance them out. But she couldn't as my right brow's arch was really high.

Taken in 2012. Can you see how the brow on the left is higher than the right side?

So for the longest time, my hair is side parted just so I could cover the right brow with my hair.

Now you know.

The brow tattoos had already faded after a few years to reddish tone but I'm lucky to have thick (and messy) brows. I'd trim them myself but now with a baby, I really have no extra time for that (read: lazy).

And when Korean brows are in trend, I feel so weird looking at my own red thin narrowed brows.

This was taken in July 2015. It's like I have almost no brows!

So one day, I was looking through an FB group that has ladies promoting their service and I came across Jasimin's post. The pictures of her work look promising. Let me show you some.

Natural and nice right?

So I contacted her, got the information I needed and made an appointment with her.

Jasimin is a home-based beautician so the serviced took place at her own home. 

She uses really good numbing cream and it was not painful! At certain areas I felt a bit of discomfort like if someone is scratching me. If you feel pain, just ask Jasimin for more numbing cream.

For 3D embroidery, she uses a thin, fine blade to imbue the ink instead of the traditional vibrating tattoo needle to tattoo "hair" like strokes on your brows.

And here's the result!

Right side. See the high arch before the 3D embroidery? Jasimin added thickness to try to balance the shape out.

Left side.

After the embroidery, it is natural for the brows to look a little harsh. The ink will scab over and fall off, leaving a lighter color.

For a few days I walked around with more severe looking brows, but nothing bad. The skin around the brows will also be dry, but Jasimin will give you a cream for that.

You can see from the 2 pictures above that I did eyeliner embroidery too. For eyeliner, she uses the traditional vibrating needle to draw the line but it's not painful at all thanks to that cream.

Here's how I look now. With more refined brows :)

You can see the brow on the right side is still slightly higher but Jasimin had tried her best and I think they're better now as compare to before I did the embroidery.

So if you like what you see, give Jasimin a call. By the way, it's pronounce as Jas-min. Not Je-see-min lolol. You can ask her why if you decided to engage her with her service. Or else, you can also call her Juliet as that's her middle name.

Charges for eyebrow/  eyeliner  embroidery are as follow:

Eyebrow embroidery - RM850 (1 FOC touch up)
Eyeliner embroidery - RM400 (1 FOC touch up)

If you wanna look prettier for the new year, call her at 012 - 290 8938

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