My 0.7 Bch is safe and I still got a new phone

How is everyone? Today is Wednesday and I still can't believe how days passes by quickly. It's been a month since my husband came home for his vacation. I was actually worried because when he came back home he got no LOE or letter of employment. This has happened when all of the seafarer was repatriated on the early days of pandemic. I thought it will take another year before he can get one. Fortunately though on the first week of March, he was already given a new schedule. He actually had a flight details for his return at work. He was asked by their recruitment agency to complete his pending requirements too. Now his passport is expiring this August, I am glad I secured an appointment schedule yesterday March 8. The renewal area is located in Robinsons Novaliches which is only a 10 minutes ride away from our home. He was supposed to be at the site by 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. He was notified to be there 15 minutes before his scheduled time but guess what we left the house by 3 pm. I kept nagging Anthony about it but he was just chilled. We reached the mall by 3:20 pm because there were some congestion along the way. Have you ever experienced it also, that sometimes when you are in hurry, there's so many distractions in your way. That was the reason why our supposed to be 10 minutes travel time became 20 minutes. Anyway to cut my long story short, Anthony was able to renew his passport after about an hour and a half. He just have to wait for another week for the courier to deliver it at our home address.

After his appointment with the DFA, we proceed to our next purpose of going out that day. To look for an affordable cellphone in replacement for our old ones. If you could remember, last week I had mentioned about converting my bch into our local currency to give my husband a present on our coming anniversary. I decided then to buy him a new phone, however the price of bch dips more. Now what am I gonna do? I also told my husband about it and he just smiled at me. I know deep inside he loved the idea about it. In the last few days, I kept asking him we should already buy so that we could take some photo in it together before he could leave the country. Maybe because I am such a nagger, he gives up and yesterday we went to different shops just to find the right phone that will suit our budget. After looking at Robinsons, we tranferred to SM to look for more. We went to cyberzone and so many salesclerks were approaching and asking us what phones we are looking for. Honestly there are so many brands today to choose from that shows good performance even at a low price. However, my husband and I were a samsung loyalist. My last samsung purchase was in 2017 and is still working good up until now. It is the phone I am using before I switched to iphone in 2018. Speaking of my broken iphone I am a little hesitant to bring it to the service center because its battery performance is already poor, though its specs is really good but I think I have to say goodbye to it for now.

We spent for more than two hours looking for our prefferred model phones. It was out of stock and the color we wanted was no longer available too. We tranferred from different shops to other shops but to no avail it wasn't available. We almost give up and then another salesman from this store approached and offered us of their ongoing promo. We were actually looking for A32 for hubby and A22 for me. But ended up getting interested with M52 and M32. I was actually looking for M22 but it was only available through online. The big discount on this M series from Samsung caught our attention. Like the price of M52 originally is 22990 php but you can get it at 14990 php that was whooping 8k discount. On the other hand, M32 price was discounted at 2500 php. From 13490 php you can avail it 10990 php. We were ready to purchase it, unfortunately the M52 which my husband like is reserved for someone. The agent assured us they will have another unit the next morning from another branch. They promised to give us a call the next day. Anyway, the name of the shop is Memo Express, so if you want to avail the big discount you can check their store. Just a little disclaimer I am not associated with their store.😅

Then today at around 1 in the afternoon, Anthony received a call from them informing that the phone is already at their store. I took a nap first and then by 5 pm, we were at SM Fairview again. I prepared the money and went inside the shop. After some briefing and all the two smartphone was handed to us. I asked hubby if I should give him the money but then he just told me to keep it. And because of that my 0.7 bch is safe back in my wallet. I initially wanted to give him a present but in the end he was still the one who handed me one. Now I am thinking again what to give him on our anniversary. Do you have any suggestions friends?

That would be for now. Since hubby has been very generous today I might give him a nice back massage in return for buying me a new phone. Thanks for taking your time reading my today's article. See you next time.

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