The refund posted sometime this morning. A lucky Friday the 13th for me! 18 days from start to finish. It's always the way for me, I go rant on FT and the next day whatever I am waiting for posts! They like to make a liar out of me!
I really would have preferred to keep my SQ booking, I had no idea about the law in the Philippines they will only issue tickets there. But I couldn't use SQ all the way to TFN because they only fly as far as BCN and I would have had to buy a separate ticket.
I kept my SQ booking BCN-SIN-BNE for the last part of the trip.