Mabuhay Miles

I received my credit card bill last night not minding the current balance (its still in 5 digits, hay! ) and an insert of the Singapore Airline Miles caught my attention. I have a total of 2,855 points from my purchases for the holidays last December and I really don't want these points to go to waste. I remembered that the same credit card company also offers to convert points to Mabuhay Miles for PAL. So I called up my fiancé and ask him if he prefers Singapore Airlines or Philippine Airlines. Logically, he chose PAL (though most of the time delayed) so I can also use the earned miles for local destinations and not just international trips...hummm, why didn't I think of that!? Free airfare to local tourist destinations is always welcome anytime of the day. I can already see the beautiful beaches of Boracay, Palawan, Siargao and Bohol.

So, today I called up the customer hotline of the credit card company and informed the customer rep that I want to redeem my earned points for Mabuhay Miles. He told me to register first at Mabuhay Miles so that I can get my member number that I need to indicate in the redemption form that he'll be sending via fax. And so I registered online and so excited to print my tempo card. Have I mentioned that I'm fond of collecting all these kinds of discount cards and debit cards that bear my name on it? Yes, it’s another obsession of mine. I waited for the customer rep's fax but I couldn't wait any longer... I checked my stacks of previous bills in my drawer and luckily, I had a redemption form from last year's bill. Thank Goodness! I don't have the habit of throwing things away (immediately). So I fill up the form and fax it to them.

And so now I await for my 2,855 points be converted to 1000 miles and be credited to my Mabuhay Miles account. And another thing is that I can use my tempo miles card for the up coming trip to Bangkok on Feb 24. And that's an additional 2736 miles credit to my account. That's a total of 3736 miles :) Yahoo! I'm so excited!!!