Date: November 16, 2021
Writer: AlphaCronWhat's up dear readers on Read.Cash!
Today, me and my mother when to the heart of the town to get a plane ticket as she is going to go to Manila. Since, my youngest sister can't accompany her to go with mom, I decided to volunteer even though I have a lot of modules to answer. HAHAHA. I did disregard my academic endeavors just to accompany her. So, first we went to Cebuana Lhuiller because she thought that she could buy a plane ticket. Unfortunately, they don't have this kind of service. Having that said, we then head straight to Western Union trying our fortune. Good thing, they do have this kind of service.
As you may recall on my previous blog entry, my mother's youngest brother passed away last November 13. Actually, her brother is situated in Novaliches, Quezon City. My mother has 4 siblings there in Luzon (including my late Uncle). She can't book a flight after the said occurrence provided that her brother's body can't be touched for the reason that it is necessary first to undergo swab testing. The hospital can only perform a swab test to my Uncle on Monday (which is yesterday, November 15, 2021). Actually, she had already planned that if her brother is positive of COVID-19, she won't go to Quezon City provided that it will be useless and a waste of resources if she will go there without seeing her brother physically. Here in the Philippines, if a dead person is tested positive of COVID-19, he or she will be cremated. You didn't get to see your loved ones lying in a coffin.
Knowing that her brother is not positive of the aforesaid virus, she will go to see him in the flesh. It's so sad and painful that the only time when we can reunite with our loved ones is when someone is dead.
Going back, we asked the employee (lady) if there's a flight today. Luckily, there has only few customers at that time. With that said, we got enough attention from her. The employee said to us that there's still a flight at 2 pm and 5pm, but the price of the ticket is much expensive. You will pay PHP 5,000. Without denying, it's quite pricey.
Nonetheless, as we asked her once more what are the available flights for today, she said to us that there's an available flight tomorrow at 10:30 am, 2:00pm and 5:00 pm. The good thing is that the price of the ticket is much lesser. You will pay PHP 3,000 plus for the flight fare.
After minutes of contemplation, we decided to choose the 10:30 am flight. So, we paid PHP 3,159. We waited for the lady to book a 10:30 am but unfortunately, the system has crashed. For almost 20 minutes of waiting, we asked the lady to message me through text once she already booked my mom's flight for tomorrow.
And so, we headed outside the vicinity and decided to go to the nearest shopping center while waiting the flight ticket. We roamed around the four corners of the shopping center for almost 30 minutes. The reason why we desire to go to the shopping center it's because my mother wants to buy a keypad phone. She's not accustomed to using touch screen phone. She doesn't like the keypad phones in the shopping center. As a result, we only bought these stuffs.
We did go back to the Western Union with the hopes of receiving the ticket. Good thing, the lady was able to book a flight. Having that said, finally, we were able to receive the ticket.
Fast Forward
It's still quarter to 11 in the morning, but we're both already hungry. So, I told mom that why not we eat our lunch early. Gladly, she's on the go. Hahaha. We had our lunch at Corner Pastil. It's a local restaurant in our town where there main product is a Filipino packed rice dish that goes by the name of "Pastil."
The dish is consists of steamed rice and shredded pork, fish, beef, and chicken wrapped in banana leaves. My mother paid for our lunch for only PHP 100 ($2). After we had lunch, we rode a tricycle to head to a warehouse where you can buy various products for a favorable price.
She did buy a keypad phone, a pair of sleeping clothes, leggings, and a multi-function electric cook pot. As for me, I only bought a bucket hat. Hihihi.
Closing Thought 💡
My mom decided to leave the town and stay overnight together with my brother (in another city) because of her scheduled flight which is 10:30 am considering as well that the airport is 30 minutes away from our place. Indeed, we had a great time today (I'm mama's boy tho ☺). Praying for my mother's safe travel to Manila.
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