I didn't apply directly to get elite card. I upgraded from regular PP card to elite so I didn't get any bonus miles at all.
But like I said I flew to Asia like 3 times. So I earned almost 60K of miles. And all of them got transferred to my thank you network without me doing any 60K purchases. Just this year that this thing started to happen.
Anyway, I called them up and downgraded to a normal PP card so I don't have to pay $75 fee in order to spend a lot of $$$ just to get my points