Hello everyone, I am
back! Well, there is no need of writing Christmas or New Year
messages as I am not Her Majesty – who'd on Earth would want to
read my blabber on such nice days!
Well, let's look into
the visa front. Our good UK High Commission in Colombo has lived up
to their reputation by refusing the visa application of local
Cardinal (Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith ) saying insufficient
information... As much as I appreciate visa forms being filled full
and complete, there is this perennial issue of applications being
refused due to nit picking. And UK High Commission has a good
reputation for that. Well, here is a case point for those who did not
have misfortune of dealing with them.
As for the good
DownUnders – no reply from them so far on nature of their medical
examination. As we all know certain doctor H. loves to undress
pre-teen and nubile young girls as a part of Australian visa medical
examination. Ah. And I came across Hon US ambassador Athul Keshap's
Facebook greeting – which I appreciate, except getting through to
US embassy's trade relations section is nigh impossible.
All three examples
above points to the difference between practices and the public image
these foreign(?) diplomatic missions have in store here. No wonder
people here are suspicious about them! In simple terms, I would
seriously like to have more responsible visa officers, more
transparent and fair visa practices, and friendlier diplomats. After
all, they are here to build bridges between respective nations –
and nations mean people, not merely the governments!
In my opinion, rigid
visa practices and cold welcomes at diplomatic missions have never
really done much to contain illegal immigration. All it has done is
making distrustful and bitter populaces among the nations where such
idiotic approaches are practised. A better approach will be less
rigid, fairer, and transparent practices backed by approachable
officers – who would want to stay illegally in a country which he
can visit anytime anyways! If anyone is seeking a good example of how
wrong foreign policies hurt nations, Angela Merkel has just given us
one. In order to 'punish' that Russian bear Vladimir Putin, she
closed the borders to those north of her and opened them to ME &
Africans. Now the silly gobs£%te is crying out loud about growing
national security concerns and rise of Islamic extremism. As one
expat here told me, a succinct one liner description of her
predicament will be “serves her right!” Not so funny when one
thinks of everyone (and that means WE) as a nation has to pay for
works of this silly sausage, Angela, and it is a bitter pill that
does not cure the disease. It's just bitter.
Why am I always
blasting foreign embassies and diplomats in this blog? Because they
are a no good lousy bunch of vermin who are a drain on public funds,
and bane of lives of peoples in the host country. You can visit local
night clubs and pubs and see who they have as their good local
companions, and work it out for yourself. I can't actually see any
improvement in professionalism amongst them for the past decade, no
actually they are getting worse. Athul Keshap seems to be a good
choice, but I fear he too has not made any real improvement except in
his own image building. And I would not waste pixels on British or
Australian twats here.
