She would say, she is to pack her bags already and head for Dubai… where her mom and dad is… she wants to be with them… she says this when they talk to her via YM and over the phone… she wanted to go to Dubai… she is two and half…
So my mom thought, she should… but how? I am taking her…
It could be said that everything that I am now, is because of the riches Dubai offers… they managed to send me to a private school mainly because of my aunts, uncle, cousins and my mom working in Dubai… Dubai actually what saved my brother… he didn’t even finished high school and would have no future if my mom didn’t managed to pull some strings and take him to Dubai… I was also supposed to go to Dubai… but then, I am okay here… so far, I am okay…
And that I feel for my niece… I, too, with my brother, grew up without mom… I do understand why she had to leave… but then, it sure would have been nice if we had her physically on our side growing up… and my niece is just but two, her mom, my sister-in-law, have to go back to Dubai only days after giving birth to her, so literally she does not know them aside from people who talks to her form a box…
I have to take her… I was determined… I know it won’t be easy and chances are low—everybody wants to go in vacation during the holidays… but I have to at least try… and so try I did, really hard… following up on my leave application insistently… but to no avail… a maybe as an answer is not good enough if you are to spend about thousands of dollars and a little heart… I am not to gamble that…
My mom kept calling me asking for just my status… and then as of late, complaining how it is getting harder to find available flights… apparently everybody is travelling… and they are afraid they will not be able to book us, at least in one flight, seated together… The airlines won’t allow it… her travelling alone and that include seated separate from a guardian a.k.a. me… my mom was already willing to pay premium… but my leave application is still unclear… until Thursday…
I was supposed to be on off… but I was required to attend a 6th day over time training… I didn’t want to go… it was my off, and you can’t require anyone to go on over time… but my supervisor insisted or else, I guess I get a royal scolding… which I can’t afford as I need my leave… so I went… but then when I checked my schedule for the following weeks… hoping finally it will show I would be on leave thus approved… it showed, apparently, it was my last day… but it was not paid leaves that reflected but suspension… I do remember I have 8 days of suspension waiting to be served… there were 10 actually from my call avoidance case which almost cost me my job… and me getting transferred to the software department…
F*ck…!
But okay, at least, I would be on vacation… I may have no money when I get back… but still it will allow me to take my niece to Dubai and make everyone and her little heart happy… I called my mom as soon as I got home—I don’t bring any of my phones with me to work—to tell her the good news…
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