After work

Just in time.

I left Cevera on the first week of October, just about the time my sister Lucy arrived with Alicia Keys. The family stayed over the weekend at Discovery Suites. The world tour performance was sold out, we ourselves only managed two tickets that I gave to my niece Nerissa and my cousin Marice. I just waited outside the coliseum, where I had a strange conversation with a scalper who wanted to buy a ticket at any cost for a girl who flew in from Florida but couldn't get in.

Monday.

Mom had pneumonia and I brought her to the Lung Center. She spent the week recuperating there, away from her home which I found too turbulent. Her eldest daughter, my sister who had liver cancer, was there.

Lucy was busy with Jasmine Trias, who had suddenly become superstar endorser in Manila. Jasmine herself was suprised so many people were starstruck by her. She, in turn, was starstruck from having been able to meet Alicia Keys in person.

Then my DSL was installed. The sudden immersion in the depths of the information superhighway was ironic.

Nowhere else could I be so exposed, and with so many others, and never even leave my room.