Many years later, here's documentary proof of how much I now excel at procrastination:
Dear [Tym],I can't believe I've spent almost a year cracking jokes about how if I didn't get around to re-registering soon --- after the first reminder, and the second, and I think there was a third --- that they would throw me in jail or something. Now I'm facing a composition fine if I don't get my sad act together.
Re-Registration of NRIC* at the age of 30
I refer to our first notification and subsequent reminders on the above matter. We note that you have yet to re-register your NRIC. You are kindly advised to call in person at our office to complete the re-registration before your 31st birthday.
[Finicky re-registration details snipped]
Please note that under the National Registration Act; registrants who fail to re-register their NRIC once they reach 31 years of age shall be guilty of an offence. You will have to pay a composition fine in addition to the re-registration fee.
Love,
Your friendly neighbourhood Citizen Services Centre
Really, all I had to do was get Terz to take a picture of me, so that I could upload it at the re-registration website. But eleven months have waffled by, Terz's photography skills and exposure are growing by leaps and bounds --- and I still haven't checked what the image requirements are.
If I skip out on the composition fine, do they throw me in jail then?
* For my dear friends who are mercifully ignorant of the term "NRIC", it stands for (I think) National Registration Identity Card, aka our national identification card in a puny shade of pink. All citizens get one at the age of twelve, then you have to update it with a new photograph at nineteen. Apparently thirty is the next point at which the government suspects you might not look like your nineteen-year-old self anymore, especially in this age of heightened suspicion about anyone who might not resemble their 'official' image.
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Hrm... (a) I didn't know we had to get a new IC at age 30, and (b) I've never received any notice to reregister and (c) am I out $5000(!) for not doing it anyway?
Wait, I could go to jail???
Fuh.....
Gosh... you still haven't re-registered that IC yet? I remember talking about it with you over Dimsum when I was in my first trimester and I'm now scarily close to giving birth to my non-Singaporean baby.
Quick.... send it in... I think the photo details are on the website or that piece of paper they sent us... or better yet... just scan in a photo and send that in...
I procrastinate, therefore I will be later.
I haven't gotten that notice either, and it's just a coupla years late.
"Shall be guilty of an office?" LOL that sounds like something straight out of a Dilbert comic...
As far as I remember you were superb at silly school admin in JC. You should've seen Mr G (my CT) applying his Aussie skills to the task. The number of times I received notification letters AFTER the event/deadline had passed... to quote Mr P, "He's so laid back he's nearly horizontal" =)
My favourite incident was when they made us do the 7 habits of highly effective people in Civics. Mr G. read out no. 1 - "begin with the end in mind". Then we had a good laugh and threw out everything in between =P. Of course, everyone knows that the real purpose of Civics period is to finish your maths tutorial or essay!!
KnightofPentacles --- It never ceases to amaze me how quickly you look up all this legal stuff. I mean, I know how to do it, but you actually get it done and are much more well-informed as a result. I guess a $120 "composition fine" isn't as bad as $5000 outright.
cour marly/Mr Miyagi --- I suspect this "re-register at 30" is something relatively new. Terz is a few years older than me, and he never got any re-registration notices either. Seems like my "batch" always gets to be guinea pigs for everything: Gifted Education, cannot wear shorts at NUS, and now the re-registration of NRIC.
SilverBullet --- I will re-register, really, by the end of the school holidays in mid-March.
TaLieSin --- Hm, the "office" thing could be a typo on my part. My fingers sometimes have a mind of their own. Will check against the original when I get home. And yes, Civics. I think I mostly spent it chatting with the class and giving them lessons in life (or Buffy).
the reason why some folks didn't get re-registration - you may have lost your IC in between? 'cos that's what happened to me and they told me i wont' be called up for re-registration liao.
(hi TYM! u may not know me, but i'm a friend of tris_'s in real life. =))
Can wear shorts at NUS what. No one cares.
Anyway now you do your IC at 15. No one asked me to put a new picture at age 19, so I can still get someone else to masquerade as me. Hee hee.
Why don't you wear a Chador for your IC pic? See what they do to you. Claim that they're violating your religious freedom.
TaLieSin --- An update: "office" should read "offence"; the typo was mine. I've fixed it now.
A. --- Thanks for dropping by!
Agagooga --- NUS tried to ban shorts and tank tops in the early '90s. And if they're already threatening to fine me $120, I'm not going to antagonize them further by testing the photograph requirements --- although I just checked the reminder/warning letter and it merely states that I should submit a passport-sized photograph, without specifying that the entire face has to be visible...
I suspect we'll still be talking about forming this club when I'm 50...
Hi,
Fellow procrastinator here.
May I know what was the outcome of your being late to re-reg your NRIC?
In the same situation here...2 years later -_-
Thanks.
Sorry, I mean I am 2 years late to re-reg.
Yeah..so how was it?
As you mention the government “think” that our looks will change. Why should we have to pay for fee?
Should do it for free.
So how was it? Do u need to pay the fine?
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