Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Singapore is great until you have to deal with the bureaucracy. Then URGH

We have continued our lease with the owner, our landlord. We have a card for the property that allows us to use the gym. It expired Jan 24. Going to the gym today the office saw the date and said we could not go to the gym. We need 4 pages of forms, signatures from our landlord,  proof of the stamp fee ($250 a government grab) necessary for any lease or any update. I said it is going to be really tough over Chinese New Year. It is really big here, and everything closes down. She had no sympathy, she knows us well, but "too bad, so sad".  URGH URGH. So until we get this ridiculous paper work done, we can not use the gym. We are paying rent, but no facilities without this damn card. URGH again.

Mostly we don't rub up against this kind of thing. Of course we were deluged with it when we first arrived. Frustration added to our toxic mix of adjusting to life here. But since then, not much. But when it happens I get a roiling in my innards. The frustration of no movement, no exceptions, no humanity. It must be awful if you are living here for ever. I can handle it for the short term and will not miss this when we move home.

Did I say? April 25. Home by May 1. What a May Day!

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