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I think I'm currently sitting in the most unpleasant place in Singapore. A crowded waiting room with around 200 others waiting to get social visit visas extended. I'm with Brynn, and I he gets out if here without picking up a cold, he's doing really well. Everyone seems to be coughing...

We have to be here. Singapore only gives babies born here a 42 day visa, which then has to be renewed if you can't get a passport in time.  The British passport office for this part if the world is in Hong Kong and takes six weeks to process. So needless to say we need to renew. I think it's a ridiculous system.

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