Super Junior

... is the name of a Korean boy band. And the source of great stress for one of our consultants in the office. Last week, I received about 4 emails from him -- almost panicked, that tickets were about to get sold out and hi daughters would really, really like to watch. He was stuck in Vanuatu and could not get home in time and his daughters would be really disappointed. He was asking (pleading...) me to please buy 2 VIP tickets... at 7,990 PHP each.

WTF!?

He was a really nice guy and I bet with him being absent from home all the time (the guy's family lives in Bacolod, he works in Manila and most of the time out of the country for business trips) this was one of his ways to make up to his family. I didn't even know Super Junior, but there I was buying 2 VIP tickets (the only ones available, cheaper ones were all sold out - and if I didn't reserve ahead of time, muntik na din ako maubusan sa SM Makati!). I don't know how the salespeople at the ticket counter could manage straight faces while selling tickets at outrageous prices!!

I thought the 15,000 ++ I paid for my tickets were really shocking, but while the counter people were checking my reservation, a lady came to claim her Taylor Swift tickets...

"Ma'm, your total bill is 127,000 pesos"

WTF!?! Php 127,000 for ten tickets to Taylor Swift!!And I heard it was also all sold out ... and the concert isn't on until FEB! There were also irked parents trying to buy at SM and being turned away.

As I checked my BPI account last Friday for my colleague's promised ticket payment from Vanuatu, I prayed that Tonyo won't be a fan of something with expensive tickets...