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20
The Papermill
September 20, 2007 |
We got out of bed around 8 this morning. A quick shower and a breakfast later we shuffled down Sukumvit to the Royal Embassy, Kingdom of Norway.
The place is located in the UBC II building at the 18th floor and does not exactly flaunt itself. Not a single sign heralded that this was the safe haven of stranded vikings, whalers and other persecuted and harassed people with the profound luck of being in possession of a Norwegian pass port and a social security number.
But we found our way inside, and went up, just as the opened the doors for the assembled masses. Mostly ladies, accompanied or not by their Norwegian boyfriends and husbands hoping that the Kingdoms bureaucrats would have had a nice start of the day, and feeling happy enough to admit their significantly better looking halves into the land of fjords.
It was easy enough for us. A lady with the personality of an army drill sergeant quickly organized the crowd into the quick and easy ones (the ones just needed a stamp on a piece of paper), and the visibly more nervous Visa applicants. We where issued with a cue number, and I managed to grab the correct form… the holy grail we where there to get. The Marriage Application form.
I filled it in, waited for about 15 minutes, went to window number 1, where I signed it in front of whomever was inside, who then took my paperwork, consisting of my “Certificate of No Impediment to Marriage”, our pass ports, and my income tax statement from last year + copies of everything, gave us a receipt, and told us to come back tomorrow at 9 in the AM to pick up the legalised form, and hand 1100 baht over to the Kings Treasury chests.
The rest of the day we did some shopping, and I managed to find a motorcycle helmet that actually fit on my head, and also picked up a microphone/ headset combo for skyping home, and a keyboard with Thai letters for Nan when she wants to use the computer.
Nan is under the covers putting the remote for the TV trough it’s paces. She’s been quite a trooper, walking for miles to today with her farang ting tong.
Thats it!
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i am planning to get a Thai keyboard for Amy as well, maybe we can get them chatting…..which, of course, would be fun for them but possibly disadvantageous for us when they start to compare note and formulate more effective strategies….
Uh oh, well, we have our meet up to formulate possible counter strategies. I am sure we can manage to come up with something really brainy over a case of Beer Chang