Long Weekend

Today is Saturday, I decided to take advantage of the long weekend and most of my colleagues are preparing for it because they already received their salaries last Thursday. Well our allowances as trainees were also included and I thank God since honestly I am already in need for a recharge. My work ended at around seven in the evening last Friday and I found out that the holidays fall on August 29 Monday (National Heroes Day) and August 30 Tuesday (End of Ramadan).

Four days of rest.... ahhh thank goodness.

I hurriedly packed my things and went to Pasay City to catch the Philtranco bus going to Bicol. Well I was planning to go to Cubao since that is where most of the buses are waiting. But since the traffic was really heavy, I just went to Pasay to take my chances. A lot of passengers were trying to get their tickets and it was already passed eight in the evening. Few more hours and you can call it done and the next set of trips will be opened the next day. I asked the ticket teller for the schedule but she told me that there were no available seats anymore. The terminal was full packed and most of them were chance passengers! I asked the security guy how will I be able to get on board if I am a chance passenger. He told me that I must talk to the driver and he will decide if I can join the trip. So I went to one of the buses and luckily I was given a chance to be with them. The guy told me that seat number 34 was free. So pretty lucky! But when I went to that seat, someone was already in it. Should I get off the bus? Of course not! So I just sit on the floor just right beside the comfort room which you can never afford to appreciate since the smell of that little uncomfy thing is so terrible whenever someone used it. My nose is the most sensitive among my five senses. But because I really wanted to go home, I just forced myself to get used to it. Thankfully I had my Bench body spray with me.




So here's what happened, the lady bus conductor still charged me seven hundred fifty pesos. That is exactly the fare going to Naga City and she even gave me a ticket but the date she put on that ticket was July 2010. So I am pretty sure that she was using an expired ticket just to show that she was issuing one. She didn't even give me a discount for not having a proper place to sit in. Well since I am not that hard to deal with, I just let it passed.

I had not eaten dinner yet, fortunately I had two packs of Milo in my bag. This temporarily relieved my hunger but experts say that you should never eat sugar when you're hungry because it will surely make you feel more hungry. Not advisable for people who need to reduce weight. But in my case, my metabolism is fast so that doesn't really matter at all. I was thankful when the bus fetched some passengers at the South terminal. I thought we were going to eat first before leaving but we didn't. So I only bought two pieces of Mister donuts, just quite enough to temporarily relieve the discomfort.



We stopped at Pinky's Lodge in Gumaca Quezon at around two thirty in the morning. We ate and rested there for awhile. Yes finally, I had my dinner early... early in the morning. After that short break we traveled four more hours before we reached our destination. Since my town is two more hours away from Naga City, I had to take another bus for that.

Whew! What a trip.

That was the first time I traveled without a proper seat. But everything went fine so it's worth the pain. What's important is I am already here at the comfort of our home now. Enjoying every minute of this long weekend.


Let us all be thankful that we have these days to relax. But did you know that the best way to rest is to cast your anxieties on God? Wanna know why? Because He cares for us. 1 Peter 5:7

Happy long weekend everyone! Take care.