Have A Break

It's been a week since I've felt unwell. And yesterday was the worst because I experienced body pain and I felt nauseous. So I decided to give myself a break from my online hustle and took a rest. I just slept and ate and slept and ate yesterday. I felt fine, but then last night, at 12 am, I woke up because I felt so cold and my body temperature was so high again. So I asked my husband to get my medication, and after I took it, I went back to sleep again. I woke up this morning feeling fine, and as of this moment, I am still doing good. No more body pains, and I don't feel nauseous anymore. I hope that my condition will continue to be okay. 

Anyway, many things happened yesterday. The first thing was about my sister, Katy. So this is what happened. She went to Manila yesterday to get her documents and a plane ticket to the agency. And then she called me, saying that she was there, and the money she had in her wallet was 200 pesos, or $4 only, and she had to attend a meeting regarding her departure today. Obviously, her money was not enough for all those things, plus she had to go back to Bataan. I told her why she went to Manila with money that was not enough for her travel. What if something happened to her? How would she be able to survive? And then she said that she knew "na di ko sya matitis." By the way, she is an OFW in Hong Kong. She added that she had no one to borrow money from, so she asked me if I had a spare to lend to her. I asked her how much she needed. She said that she needed 2,500 pesos, or $50, for her transportation and pocket money worth 200 Hong Kong dollars.

I have $55 on bitcoin.com. It was my 4 days' earnings in noise and then read.cash. I am saving it for my appointment in Iloilo on May 26. But since my sister needed it, I sent it to my coins.ph and converted it into our fiat. 

I told her to look for a remittance center nearby because I would send her the money she needed. She said that she was near Palawan Pawnshop. I told her to wait because I would send her the money. 

While I was inputting the necessary details and was about to confirm it, I saw that she could not claim the money right away. I was taken aback. She needed the money right away, and it would be a lot of trouble if I gave it to her, but she's already in Hong Kong the day after. So I was like, "Thank God."

So I told her to look for LBC, and after a while, she called again and told me she was in front of LBC. So I sent her the money and she claimed it afterward. She was so thankful and promised me to return the favor once she'd settled in Hong Kong. I told her that there was no need for that and advised her to pay off all her debts and save money, that she was getting old and yet she had no house of her own. I told her to be wise this time. 

And now, she's already in Hong Kong. Her flight was at 5 in the morning today. And we just had a video call while I was writing this. She showed me the hotel where she was staying for her 7-day quarantine. I told her she needed to rest a lot because she was going to work her a$$ off again.

She said she was very happy because, after 2 years of not being able to work because of the pandemic, she now has a stable job that could sustain her family's needs and pay all her debt. 

And of course, as her ate, I am also happy for her, but somehow, I already miss her. I just hope that her new employer is a good one and not like how her previous employer was.

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And that's how my day went yesterday. I will try to cope up everything from now on. I just hope that Rusty still remembers me, lol! Thanks for reading!

Date Published: May 6, 2022

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