I was summoned by my father to be home over the weekend over some unsettled family matter. So it was a quick balik kampung weekend trip for us. AirAsia did come to mind but thinking of the travelling hassle later, we chose to drive. Without the normal holiday crowd on the highway we did arrive early at my father's. The Kajang-Kuala Kangsar-Grik-Jeli-Penglima Bayu route took us just 6 hours using the SKVE-Elite-NKVE-PLUS-Kuala Kangsar-Grik-Jeli highways!
We expect to settle the matter fast. However, going to the Pasir Mas Land Office and a quick look at the land title by the attending officer we were told to have father's IC verified by Registration Department Head Office at Putrajaya. For that we have to go through the State Registration Department, Kota Bahru. Seemed that my father's ID on the title has the KN prefix. This could be for the population of his age group. Apart from filling the form provided by the Kota Bahru office, we have to provide a photocopy of my father's ID card. That was when I realised he was born in 1934.
I made a mention to him in passing, calculating his age. He laughed it off saying that that was not his real birth year for he was already able to read in 1933! The date was a random date picked during the ID registration excercise then. Who knows how old he is. I figure he is in his mid 80s!
Salam Kak Wan,
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My father's birthday on his IC is stated as 01.01.1935. But that's not his real birth date because he never had a birth cert. According to my mum, he could actually be older based on his recollections of the time of the Japanese occupation.