I went to Israel Embassy in SF last friday to apply for Israeli visa. Since my working life here in California is absolutely mundane, this israel thing (if possible) will be easily one of the most adventurous event for this year. Having bad experience with US visa, I don't put too much hope in this one either, especially malaysia passport explicitly bans Israel visit. Just for your information, Malaysia government does allow Malaysian Christians to visit Israel for religious pilgrims.
The Israel embassy staff were more friendly than i expected when i presented my passport. Nonetheless I was given extra questionnaire and interview on the reason of applying the visa. Among the question, what is your grandfather name? Shamefully I have no answer for this. The questions were definitely more detailed than those asked by US embassy. The application fee is only $17 which is way cheaper than $100 US visa fee though. They accepted my application but didn't guarantee that the visa will be granted. Anyway, my schedule to go Israel is in the middle of May and if by that time i still don't get the visa then the plan will be scrapped.
Spent a good 4 hours reading in Sunnyvale library this afternoon. I hope to make this my weekly activity. Free access to wide variety of magazine so why not? It's particularly nice to read about dog and recently i have been influenced that i started reading car and motorcycle stuff. Flipping through the magazines, the hot topics these days are none other than presidential elections, US financial like subprime, credit crisis and the environment issue. Speaking of pollution, one of my colleague is an avid environmentalist, who commutes on VTA and refuses using disposable utensil. On top of that he is a vegetarian who can bench presses 130 lbs ! Last week during lunch he got into "serious yet hilarious" mouth fight on environment issue with some other colleagues who have typical american mindset (imagine those who drive big-ass SUV). As much as US cries about pollution, i see those being brought up in Asia actually care more about environment than those grew up here.
Interesting. A guy goes fishing 1.5 miles offshore and catches this:
The Israel embassy staff were more friendly than i expected when i presented my passport. Nonetheless I was given extra questionnaire and interview on the reason of applying the visa. Among the question, what is your grandfather name? Shamefully I have no answer for this. The questions were definitely more detailed than those asked by US embassy. The application fee is only $17 which is way cheaper than $100 US visa fee though. They accepted my application but didn't guarantee that the visa will be granted. Anyway, my schedule to go Israel is in the middle of May and if by that time i still don't get the visa then the plan will be scrapped.
Spent a good 4 hours reading in Sunnyvale library this afternoon. I hope to make this my weekly activity. Free access to wide variety of magazine so why not? It's particularly nice to read about dog and recently i have been influenced that i started reading car and motorcycle stuff. Flipping through the magazines, the hot topics these days are none other than presidential elections, US financial like subprime, credit crisis and the environment issue. Speaking of pollution, one of my colleague is an avid environmentalist, who commutes on VTA and refuses using disposable utensil. On top of that he is a vegetarian who can bench presses 130 lbs ! Last week during lunch he got into "serious yet hilarious" mouth fight on environment issue with some other colleagues who have typical american mindset (imagine those who drive big-ass SUV). As much as US cries about pollution, i see those being brought up in Asia actually care more about environment than those grew up here.
Interesting. A guy goes fishing 1.5 miles offshore and catches this:
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