Walking in the Scorching Heat of the Sun to Look for a Thrift Shop

When I heard that Mama would get a double payment for her monthly pension, I asked her to come with me to Pinamalayan (the municipality of Oriental Mindoro) because I wanted to buy another short in a thrift shop. I really love the shorts that are selling in a thrift shop, aside from the fact that they are cheaper. As long as you are good at spotting, you can get a good quality short using those eye skills of yours, lol.

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Mama has that, you see, so I asked her to come with me. Just so you know, I used my own money to buy those, and if Mama has her own money, she can also buy whatever she wants. And she agreed on it. We just plan it for the other day, or more like we just talk casually about it, then we just set a time. Mama said we have to be early, so, okay, be early. On Saturday,at 8 a.m., I heard that Saturday is "Tiangge-an" Day in Pinamalayan.

That is also the reason why we set it on Saturday. So off we go....

We started on waiting for a car that Travels in Pinamalayan. From Bansud to Pinamalayan using Bahaghari, it will only take 54 minutes to arrive. But it still depends on the speed of the car that you are riding. Ours is kind of slow and it has a lot of stopover because of the other passenger.

It is actually raining while we are traveling but it just stop. And when we arrive in Pinamalayan, it becomes hotter. I have my Umbrella but we didn't really use it, lol.

Upon arriving to the destination, we just walk a little to reach these little vendors here who's selling different kind of what we called "Ukay-Ukay" or a pre-loved or a secondhand clothes. There's really a lot of them and this is what we love because we can look in different shop here.

And my happy heart can't contain the happiness and it is jumping in joy. And even if it is too hot and already sweating in the underarm, we still look and look and look until we finally spotted a one or two good items that we really like.

My first buy is a 6 pocket short that cost 120php or $2.15, but we were able to get it for 100php or $1.79 only because of Mama's power in bargaining, lol. Then two more short which cost me $4.13, the other one is also a 6 pocket short. Not bad, if I will buy a brand new one it will cost me more than that price.

Mama bought a short too, so while waiting for her, I saw this shop that sells different items including those handmade baskets, bilao and more. I hope they also got a good sale today for that beauties.

And after Mother got the items she wants, we decided to go in the market because I want to buy some "Kakanin." I am craving for "Puto" or Filipino Rice Steamed Cake that is why. While walking to get in there, I saw the busy Market. There's a lot of fish and seafoods here.

And this is the kakanin that I am saying. They all look yummy that I am so tempted to buy all of these. But then, I have to stop myself because I can't eat them all, lol. Even if my Mommies help me, we can't eat it all.

In the end, I only buy 4 different type of kakanin. It is sad because I failed to take a photo of it at home. Or more like, i forgot, lol. And these different kakanin are Puto, Ube Puto, Sapin-Sapin and Suman. The taste is good, but we didn't eat it all because it is too much for us. I just put it in the refrigerator.

And us we walk further, we saw this little market here with a lot of vendors selling different kind of goods, from fruits to veggies and dried fish. There are some too who sells different kind of plants.

Look at these Sweet Potato and Squash. There's a lot of them. But Mama didn't buy. I am thinking of buying because I want to cook sweet potato fries, but it will weight too much so I just set aside the thought.

After walking around in that area, I drag my Mama to a Cafeteria just beside this market. I am already hungry that is why.

We just order 2 order of rice and 2 order of Ground Beef with lot's of veggies. I also ordered 3 pieces of Lumpiang Shanghai. After having our lunch, we just go back in looking for another Thrift Shop because I feel like buying more short, lol.

Lucky me because I found this big Thrift Shop where they sell a lot of different items and in a much cheaper price. This is where I bought these shorts which cost me 100 php on or $1.79 for 3 pieces of short.

I inly have two because I soaked the other one in a detergent because it is color white and I want it to look more whiter. Imagine for only $1.79, OMG! I love them seriously.

And if only it is not that too hot that day, we will continue to look more for a Thrift Shop. But because our legs is already tired even our body, we decided to stop and just do other things like buying our needs in Cathymart which we successfully do.

And then we go home.