Tuesday, August 22, 2006
BKK 16 ~ 17 Aug 06 # 2
Longest Clearance
It was the longest immigration clearance experience i've had coming into BKK, over an hour from touch down 730pm. There werent enough counters opened and i took the last counter, hoping that they will open the unopened counters around it soon.
I stood behind and to the side of an angmoh B (he was to the side of another angmoh A ahead of him too) so as to allow some walkway behind the line, as we were close the the back of the wall, a chinese (Singaporean?) was behind me and to the side too. In rushed a group of 3 Indonesians who blantantly cut the queue and went to stand behind angmoh A, next to angmoh B, AND trying to squeeze me out! I stood my ground, and they kept bumping into my bag as they chat loudly amongst themselves. I stared ahead and kept just half a pace behind angmoh B. Why so inflexible you might ask, a lone girl in a foreign country against 3 men... so I was cranky from a long day and no krisworld OK?
It did happen, a counter opened next to the one that i was queueing for, i moved quickly ahead, with one of the Indonesia behind me, haha, and his 2 friends remained in the original queue. But my line got stuck when the immigration officer took the longest time to clear an Indian couple, the other lines had processed 7-8 pp in the same time....
sigh~!
thank goodness, the driver was waiting for me, no need to queue for taxi...
It was the longest immigration clearance experience i've had coming into BKK, over an hour from touch down 730pm. There werent enough counters opened and i took the last counter, hoping that they will open the unopened counters around it soon.
I stood behind and to the side of an angmoh B (he was to the side of another angmoh A ahead of him too) so as to allow some walkway behind the line, as we were close the the back of the wall, a chinese (Singaporean?) was behind me and to the side too. In rushed a group of 3 Indonesians who blantantly cut the queue and went to stand behind angmoh A, next to angmoh B, AND trying to squeeze me out! I stood my ground, and they kept bumping into my bag as they chat loudly amongst themselves. I stared ahead and kept just half a pace behind angmoh B. Why so inflexible you might ask, a lone girl in a foreign country against 3 men... so I was cranky from a long day and no krisworld OK?
It did happen, a counter opened next to the one that i was queueing for, i moved quickly ahead, with one of the Indonesia behind me, haha, and his 2 friends remained in the original queue. But my line got stuck when the immigration officer took the longest time to clear an Indian couple, the other lines had processed 7-8 pp in the same time....
sigh~!
thank goodness, the driver was waiting for me, no need to queue for taxi...
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# posted by yojanjan : 8/22/2006 04:29:00 PM
