Applying MyKid’s Number and MyKid Card for Overseas Born Kids

All a sudden my daughter’s principal asked me for her MyKid’s number, I was wondering what was it!

Written by Mrs. Money

http://www.jpn.gov.my/en/informasi/mykid

http://www.myrealestate.com.my/viewtopic.php?t=964&sid=ac82dac4b394dacd2592e3443d17616a

(Reminder: Look up for Warganegara!)

My son is coming to 8 soon and my daughter is 5 but due to my ignorant I never heard of such thing called MyKid’s number but a while ago I did read once from newspapers that our Malaysian under 12 kids in option can apply for their children’s identity card.

Then this early morning before 7:30, my daughter’s principal asked me to give her my daughter’s MyKid’s number but I asked her, “What is it?” She quickly produced one of her Malaysian born student’s birth certificate with 12 digits coded number on the top right corner and the birth certificate number somewhere downwards.


Gosh! But my kids birth certificates issued in NZ Malaysian high commision are so different from what I saw. I became nervous, I rushed back home, turned in internet, there were someone in certain blogs also asked the doubtful questions like me, but someone advised them to ignore MyKid card as long as they have Malaysian birth certificate done. However, in my case, both my children are studying in Malaysia and now the Education Ministry is requesting for my daughter’s name, MyKid’s number and birth certificate number.

So I started to call Kuching IC department, there was no one answered the phone, I then only realized that I was calling them 10 minute before 8:00 am!

Finally a little after eight, I made a call again, this time I got someone answer, after few transfers finally they told me, “Look for Warga Negara.”


About 3:00pm, I got my two kids out from nursery brought them to that popular passport and IC building somewhere in Simpang Tiga, when one enters the building the right side upstairs is passport office and for IC making one has to turn left and go upstairs, but the upstairs got so many departments, so I asked from the enquiry counter, one of the ladies told me, “If your kids born in overseas, they don’t have MyKid’s number, you wait until they are 12 years old then you come to make one!”
“What?” I argued slightly, so finally the lady issued me a number to ask me queue up the IC department to enquire from one of those staff.

While sitting and waiting, I asked my friend who came along with me, “Are you sure this is where we should sit?”
“Supposedly!"
“But this morning they told me Warga Negara (registration Dept) but this is IC department!”

I returned to the enquiry counter again asked the lady, “Do you have so call Warga Negara here?”

“Sure! This is the number, you go right there now.” She pointed at the opposite side.

“Hooray! We don’t need to wait.” Immediately I was served.

This staff named Encik Mujammed Hazid from Warga Negara was so helpful and friendly, he turned in the computer, “Your son’s MyKid’s number is in our system already.”
“Really?” I was thrilled
He turned his computer to show me, “Look here!”
I was relief of what I saw.
Then he told me, “I will apply MyKid Card for them ok?”
“Gee! Thanks so much Encik” He's really so thoughtful.

Later he even gave me two print-out receipts for collection with MyKids number provided, upon reaching home, I could just copy down the Mykid’s number to the Ministry of Education enquiry form that my daughter’s principal given in the morning.

“When I come to collect?”

“Around two months.”

“Thanks so much, my information was it would take three months!”

So if your kids born in overseas, as long as they were registered as Malaysian citizens, their MyKid’s numbers are already in the registration system, you only need to go Warga Negara asking for the number and requesting to issue MyKid’s card.

Hi! Kids will love their IC, their IC is without photo and thumb print, but remember when they reach 12, you have to bring your kids to change another adult IC with photo and thumb print.

As Malaysian citizens, we should be very grateful that our country provides us free MyKid’s card free of charged. You just need to bring along kids’ birth certificates and your own IC (either mother or father).

I was so impressed of how good the altitude of this Warga Negara staff, Mr. Muhammed Hazid, I told him that he reminded my good Yugoslovakian Muslim friend that I met back in late 80s in E. Europe whose last name is also Hazid. “I really appreciate your help, Mr. Hazid!”

Note: My experience with passport dept staff were as good too when I renewed my passport many months ago.

These are the enquiry numbers: 082-248120/082-414662 (Warga Negara, Kuching)

BEWARE OF DOGS!

...... that bark from across the fence

Written by Mrs. Money

http://blogs.news.com.au/bossy/index.php/news/comments/what_can_i_do_about_the_neighbours_screaming_baby
http://www.steadyhealth.com/my_neighbours_kids_never_stop_screaming____Driving_me_insane_t104678.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100406134431AAvfEzj

There was one of the dogs across the fence, whenever I was weeding next to the fence. It would come continuously barking at me until I walked off, gosh! No matter how I sweet talk to it, our frequencies never on the same wavelength. But surprisingly, it would never bark at my gardeners who did the weeding.

Once an American psychologist said that an old dog would behave like its master (share same frequencies with its master), I finally understand the meaning of what had happened since last night, July 1st, 2010.

Across the fence frequently there were dogs barking at 3:00am at 5:00am whenever they saw a frog, a water hen, a stranger walked pass or joining the howling with the rest of our neighborhood canine species and water hens when a siren-on ambulance happened passing by at 2:00am. There are many cars over the fence, at 1:00am I got waken up by the cars locking sound, sometimes early morning at 5:30am I got waken up by cars unlocking sound. At the other side of fence is a highway, where is a permanent Kuching Midnight Racing Track.

My professionalism taught me well to listen what I wanted to listen to keep in mind, if I am a pianist, those unwanted noises are just the counterpoint for a Fugue. Of course if the counterpoint got too loud, I would be disturbed and I tried to solve the solution by sticking double layers plastic all over the louver wooden windows, sealed up all the holes that not even an ant could get through my house.

The problem is I was from a small town once, my next door neighbors of all different three directions were at least 5 kilometers away from each others, but in Kuching though I stay on a little house on a range, but the next door neighbors can be seem everyday by just across a wire gauge fence.

It’s quite embarrassing at first when I moved in the house, as first time in my life; I have such neighbors staying so closed to each others. When I saw them across the fence, I wondered, should I greet them 10 times in a day if I saw them out there for 10 times in a day? Then I found out that my greetings always were ignored and dogs’ barking were provoked instead! Okay fine I gave up after a year, being staying rude and impolite conditionally now. Also, I realized that even the dogs across the fence also not used to have new neighbor moved in an almost decade old vacant house but I later noticed that they only spared their smiling faces to only Ang Mo visitors. Animals like dogs and cats usually don’t like young strangers, but my kids love them, imagine the picture now of how my kids chased after neighbors’ cats got in my house. Screams, screams, screams, woof, woof, woof, meow, meow meows, screams, screams, screams, our counterpoint were always too loud and annoying.

I was a stranger to Kuching city when I first moved in Kuching, I told my friends that I didn’t know where is Kuching from its paws to its whiskers, you can’t tell any Ah Dog or Ah Mao friends that your husband could be only reached by telephone 24 out of 30, security is your priority. When daughters frequently without a father figure to seek as a role model, they become a little monster to their mommies; they would be a good girl to every relatives, teachers and friends, except their own mommies.


Recently, the my little crouching monster under the roof suddenly comes to an age that she loves to scream to show her tantrum, and her real depressed lonely helpless mom also needed to scream to connect the same frequency. So what had happened last night was her mom needed to pick up her brother at 21:15 from his tuition, she chased after her mom screamed loudly that she wanted to follow her mommy.

The chase and screams continued out at the car port, suddenly across the fence my name was being called first time in my two years stay in this house but followed by a rolling fortissimo scolds to hush the little monster. I looked at the panic little “angel”; I turned to apologize instead of giving a bad example to her of how to conduct nasty bitchy bad mouthing fights.

So I educated my kids very sarcastically, “You know there are two kinds of people they never control their tantrums of not giving people any face: One is the gangster and the other type is those typical ex-British brain-washed civilians who ate full Ang Mo shit ones, yet they didn’t learn the most refined British’s good cultivation, they speak only English and dialects except no Mandarin. There are bitches in Chinese, Malay or Ang Mo cultures; they simply don’t give people who annoyed them any face!”

How much I wish someone who has much more experience than me in educating kids and who loves dogs but at the same time could extend a helping hand by teaching my kids nicely and kindly, “Come my little monsters, these are some candies for you, let aunty tells you that you have been screaming too much, really disturb my sleeping and the whole neighborhood, can you treat your mom nicely so your mom don’t get angry and screaming too? I will scold you huh, if you scream again, okay?”

Actually not all neighbors are negative towards screaming kids, one of them told me, “For so long, we don’t have kids sound in this neighborhood, all kids are growing up around our area!”

“Thanks my friend, unfortunately not everyone here works from 8 to 5, some of them are working without timing, they have to sleep during day time, noon time, early evening or just before twilight and they hate screaming annoying kids cum their angry mom while they sleep at indefinite hours!” Sometimes you can’t force someone who prefers barking dogs than screaming kids. Also owls and pigeons hard to stay on the same tree if they don’t know such virtue called “toleration.” By the way my monster shouldn’t be staying as a monster forever; kids grow fast, change bad habits in every three months, who knows that this Kuching stay might be just another of my sojourn, a transitional home to path my new career earning another more suitable home.


This morning, I whispered the little monster out of the bed, “Hurry up, please don’t give me any tantrum or screaming, or else your mom will be scolded loudly again until faceless by the one you saw and heard last night, got it?!” Hohohoho, she got up quietly and didn’t give me hard time this rainy morning.

My aloof oddity to release my aggravated depression by honking, fast driving and hysterical was just a last night nightmare! In life, sometimes unpleasant painful episode happened could unexpectedly turn into good education for some maverick breed children!