FAILED TRIP TO MALAYSIA

Last year, at the height of the airline booking bagsak presyo frenzy that was started by Cebu pacific (with its PISO fares)…other airlines followed suit and among them Air Asia. At that time, my sister was still staying with her BF in Malaysia/Singapore and so my mother and sister decided to take a trip to visit her. It also happened that at the time Air Asia was giving its own gimmick with ‘zero fares’ which is why we were able to book tickets to Malaysia at only PhP500 per person …two-way trip huh! Imagine that! It’s even cheaper than our own Palawan trip at PhP1200 per person and our recent Bohol trip at PhP1500 per person!!! WTF?!?? Good thing too I had a recently acquired passport at that time and so I consented to go on the trip with all four of us girls…that would be exciting! That was last year…this time though it’s quite a different story! As the date of our flight nears I began to get apprehensive that I may not be able to join them after all…For starters, there is the matter of the budget. It had been barely a month when my resources had been severely depleted by the kids’ enrollment and the buying of school uniforms, books and other necessary school stuff and after a month, I have not been able to get back on track with my finances just yet…Then, there is the other matter of the current changes happening in the office…we have a new boss, I have just been recently transferred to a new unit and now have new jobs/tasks that I am still learning to do, new people/officemates to adjust to…so I couldn’t very well just get up and leave them after only a month!?!? So what am I to do???? I guess the fact that this trip was partly unplanned had something to do with it… Maybe it would have been better if we had all sat down and planned this trip together, arranged an itinerary, and maybe even set up a ‘common fund’ to ensure that we’d have money/savings for the event…oh well, as it turned out even Mama was hesitant to leave her teaching job (because classes had already started, in fact last month pa). And what’s more, Marn is back home here in Pinas so I guess the real essence of the trip isn’t there anymore …so I guess we also need to work out the proper schedule din next time… make the trip during vacation time so the Mama will be able to join us…oh well, I sure hope there’s gonna be another time! As it is, only Anna will be able to make good on the trip…alone! Good luck to her! After all, she doesn’t have any family or kids or bf to worry about…go girl and have some fun in Malaysia and Singapore!!!