The young mother had struggled to get out of bed early in the morning.
She wanted to be one of the first to vote for a new president that day.
But by 6 a.m., a line had formed in front of their polling station.
And now Honey Grace Aniran, 27, has been waiting on the street in front of San Antonio High School in Makati, Manila's financial and business district, for almost four hours.
"I'm so frustrated," says the housewife as the sun beats down on the umbrella.
Meanwhile, her one-and-a-half-year-old son hangs exhausted in her husband's arms.
The heat is almost unbearable, the thermometer has meanwhile climbed to almost 35 degrees Celsius.
The couple did not eat, only drank some water.
Still, it doesn't want to give up.
Till Fähnders
Political correspondent for Southeast Asia.
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Given the adverse circumstances, it seems all the more surprising that so many people gathered at the polling stations on Monday.
The election was made more difficult not only by long waiting times and great heat.
Reports of defective voting machines came from various regions.
Apparently not everything was going smoothly at the San Antonio School in Makati either.
A woman reports that the voting machines installed on the ground floor for older voters and those with physical disabilities were broken.
Her elderly mother therefore had to climb stairs.
Sporadic violence is also reported.
The province of Maguindanao in the south of the Philippines was particularly hard hit.
Nine people were injured in grenade attacks there on Sunday.
Three people were killed in a shooting near a polling station on Monday morning.
The violence probably has nothing to do with the presidential election.
Because on this mammoth election day, the more than 67 million eligible voters will also elect a new vice president, twelve senators, 300 members of the lower house and around 18,000 mayors, governors and other local and regional representatives.
In the Philippines, it is not uncommon for lower-level political disputes to be waged at gunpoint.
But since there is also a lot at stake in the election for the successor to outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte, nervousness seems particularly high this time.
In the past few days, the Philippine press has featured psychologizing articles about an increased feeling of tension that many people had felt in the days leading up to the election.
The most important election since the 1970s?
Before the election, the well-known political scientist Richard Heydarian spoke of what was probably the most important election in the Southeast Asian country since the 1970s.
Because if the polls are right, there's a good chance that a member of the notorious Marcos family will soon be in power again in the Philippines.
According to the latest polls, candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr. would get 56 percent of the votes.
As Philippine media reported on Monday, citing information from the official electoral commission, Marcos had more than twice as many votes as his main rival, incumbent Vice President Leni Robredo.
By that time, almost half of the 70,000 polling stations had submitted their results to the commission.