Ticket, Bob, Funnel Clouds and Trendi

After journaling on my laptop, I went to studying

My morning to mid afternoon was fairly boring as all I did was journal and study diving physics and physiology. It’s been two days since I put my airplane ticket validation responsibility into the hands of Alona Kew and still haven’t heard from them. It was time to see what’s up.

I went to Alona Kew Resort and talked to the receptionist that helped me. She told me she forgot to contact Philippine Airlines because she was sick, bleah, bleah, bleah. Not surprised, I insisted she figure out what I needed to do with my ticket. I really saw no point in calling Philippines Airlines because they already told me what I needed to do. Regardless, she called the airline and I talked with the same agent I talked to before.

The agent told me that I had to validate my ticket by 11 AM the next day. I told her that it was too hard for me to go to Tagbilaran. She asked me what kind of open ticket I had. I said “S”. I heard her type something into her computer, and she said I don’t have to validate the ticket anymore. Problem solved. Why didn’t she just ask me more about my ticket beforehand?

A slight digression... I’ve noticed while working with Filipinos in service related jobs here, a lot of them don’t try to help the customer more than what’s minimal. In other words, they don’t seem to try to think of alternative solutions or ideas that would make things easier for the customer. Sure, driving all the way to Tagbilaran and presenting my ticket receipt would have solved the problem, but at the expense of the customer. It was the easiest solution for the agent because she didn’t have to do anything. This was the same for the previous travel agent at Sunshine Travel. The easiest solution was to just buy me a ticket even though I already had a ticket but it was open. For her, it was easier to buy one because that’s what she’s familiar doing, not scheduling an open ticket. Even after she bought the extra ticket, her co-worker advised me to cancel my ticket and just use hers.

After finally booking my ticket, I went to Coco Vida to go on the internet shortly. Sara texted me to have a beer with her and some others at Genesis so I made my way over there. At Oops, I saw ex-Oops bar manager Bob, which was a pleasant surprise. This time, he was on the other side of the bar (customer side) which he said was much better. I had a beer with him and his friend Perry.

At Genesis, I had a round of beers with Sara, Martine, Mike, Luer, Sky and his girlfriend, and met Erich. Sara said Erich was looking for a place to stay for about 6 weeks. Perfect, I could use someone to stay at my place for that amount of time. This would make it so I don’t have to pay rent at my place for the time I am away doing my IDC in Puerto Galera.

Waterspout in the far distance from Alona Beach.

While we were enjoying our beers, storm clouds rolled in and someone noticed a waterspout in the distance. It was too far away for us to be concerned about it. Shortly after, it started raining very hard. Sara, Erich, Martine and I decided to run to Oops for dinner.

Sara aims for a ball to shoot in while playing "Killer".

Marcus and others have a good time at Trendi's.

After dinner, the rain subsided and we walked to Trendi’s to shoot some pool. Good times.

- jason