Last night, Xoce and I went for a date to cap off the busy work week. We were supposed to have dinner at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, but we got really hungry so we decided to visit Max’s Restaurant instead (getting hungry means devouring rice).

While we were choosing food from the menu, there was a small advertisement on the table that says you can pay using your Globe Rewards points. If you’re a Globe Subscriber (whether prepaid or postpaid), you’ve probably received in the past few days an SMS from 4438 that you have this certain amount of points that will be valid until March 31, 2015. Usually, I would ignore these messages. But then, I remembered I already have 198.11 points.

Out of curiosity, I wanted to know how this works. So when one of the waiters approached us, I asked if I can pay using my Globe Rewards points. He said yes and gave me this: