Saturday, November 14, 2009
After my family and i got off the plane, as usual, we went to Amsterdam's custom to have our passports checked.
When it was my elder brother's turn, he went to the police officer infront and hand his passport for him to check. When the police officer take the passport from my brother, the passport is wet. He asked my brother the reason for the passport to be wet is it because he is nervous? My brother answered no and the reason is because my brother have sweaty palms whenever he holds the object the long and hence the passport is wet. The polie officer did not believe my brother and continue asking him questions like which hotel is he staying... and so on. My brother did not know the exact location and so he told the police officers that he came with his parents.
The police officer suspect my brother that he will do illegal things and ask another police officer to handle it. The police officer ask us to get to the back so that he could talk to us. He asked my father if he could speak English and he said "yes". He also asked if my brother knew how to speak English and my father said "yes". He took all our passports and detained u behind as he wanted to check our backgrounds.
Just then, my father's friend called to ask him if he has reached the airport. My father run to the police officer-in-charge and pass the phone to him as the police officer does not believe that we are purely just visiting my parents' friends. My father followed the officer into a room while we stayed behind to wait for him to come out.
The officer ask my father a lot more questions as compared to my brother. He treated us like we are criminals. My father took a long time inside before he was released.
After which, my father told us the the reputation of Singaporean to Amsterdam's police officers. Singaporean has a bad reputation in Amsterdam. They do illegail stuff like taking drugs, smoking below a certain age limit and etc... That is why the officers would suspect us.
After all, my father said that it was an new experience for my brother. As for me, i think this situation is also a new experience for me.
Thats all!!
