In order to get yourself ticket into this year’s convocation ( 10 August 2008), there are many steps/procedures that you need to complete). Activating your smart card is one of them.

Its as easy as making a trip to CMEAD office at FCM ground floor and present your card to the person-in-charge, wait for 1 minute doing nothing and watching the person doing lots of things and poof, you’re done.

If you got a damaged card like mine. I paid RM50 4 years ago to get my smart card and never make use of any of its so called “smart” features inside and it failed me. Totally nonsense, for that the lady in charge asked me to apply for a replacement card for RM25. Ridiculous! I have never utilized the card before and it might have spoiled even at day 1 when I got my card. FUCK!

Okay, that’s for the ranting part, here comes the solution. Who on earth willing to pay RM25 for a replacement card that will possibly be used for one more time only (namely, at convo)?

Solution:

Let me do it in Java programming language way. I’ve been coding in VB ever since I started work. I’m afraid that I might not be able to code in Java in the future, so, please bear with me with that.

//By WKLim 17July2008
//www.hugolim.com

import java.lang.*;

boolean myIC; 	            //TRUE if you poses IC
boolean myICHasTNG; 	    //TRUE if you poses TNG chip in your IC
boolean myICTNGWorking;     //TRUE if TNG chip working
boolean mySmartCard; 	    //TRUE if you poses Smart card
boolean mySmartCardWorking; //TRUE if smartcard is working
boolean checkIC = false;

myIC 			= ___; // << fill in TRUE or FALSE
myICHasTNG 		= ___; // << fill in TRUE or FALSE
myICTNGWorking 		= ___; // << fill in TRUE or FALSE
mySmartCard 		= ___; // << fill in TRUE or FALSE
mySmartCardWorking 	= ___; // << fill in TRUE or FALSE

if(mySmartCard == true){
	if(mySmartCardWorking == true){
		System.out.println("Smart card working, can activate,
					pay nothing!");
	}else{
		System.out.println("Smart card NOT working, cannot
					activate");
		checkIC = true;
	}
}

if(checkIC == true){
	if(myIC == true){
		if(myICHasTNG == true){
			if(myICTNGWorking == true){
				System.out.println("Congrats! You
				can Activate using your IC");
			}else{
				System.out.println("Go to National Registration
				Department to replace your IC for only RM10
				and it takes only 1 day!!!");
			}
		}else{
			System.out.println("Go to National
			Registration Department to change your
			IC with TNG feature for only RM10 and
			it takes only 1 day!!!");
		}
	}else{
		System.out.println("Please get yourself a IC now
		and come back after that");
	}

}

Library / Links:

Map of National Registration Department, Putrajaya

Convocation Preparation Guide

PS: In short, if they reject your card, get IC with Touch N Go feature to activate!