THE AGE OF THE GREEN COBRA

There are two Heirs to the Land.

The oldest was Marooned in Miag-ao where Bernat, son of Arnau Estanyul, built the Cathedral of the Sea.

The youngest initially imagined being Pontifical and Royal until he got bitten by a Green Cobra in Hugo Llor's vineyard. 

Such was how Engr. Howard Walowitz edged Dr. Sheldon Cooper to win a prize of kalderetang itik and patatim on Tuesday night.

Which left one hanging question: Who Killed Sara in Season 2. 

Certainly not the Peaky Blinders because Thomas Shelby, OBE and MP in Season 6, was feting them at the gypsies' Medusa Center on Friday night to celebrate the emergence of the Green Cobra with a feast of fried bangus, sisig and inihaw na liempo. 

And through it all, the Phantom Biker endured doses of therapeutic ultrasound, electrical stimulation, a paraffin wax bath, four days in the trails and a Sunday atang of adobong kambing and ginataang gulay to exorcise a shoulder capsulitis + carpal tunnel syndrome that first haunted him in Jakarta.  

CROSSROADS

Two variations of tokwa't baboy chase through thick slices of salami and Italian cheese on Wednesday and Friday as the 12 Mighty Orphans from Forth Worth's Masonic Home barricaded themselves between a quarreling Master and Past Master of the Lodge in Baloc amidst a feast of tiim na bibe, sweet and sour gourami and sisig na manok while in Bakal 2, the dueling Growling Tiger and Dancing Cobra were frozen in a stalemate.  

Bulan came home to help break the impasse but the Hustle was too much even for Yakamoz S-245 whose crew of draft combine hopefuls and bickering scientists decided to stay submerged in the Mediterranean until 11M and the Terror in Madrid passes through Thursday's kilaweng kambing, sinampalukang manok and a pile of Toblerones that is all that remained of Jose Maria Aznar's fallen government.

It was a forgive but don't forget Saturday, like Season 2 of Love and Anarchy and Sofie who reincarnated the MILF of Bakal 2 as she who fornicated in the water closet, the garage and a kitchen table with a Company of Heroes that were all cloned from the Phantom Biker as he raced against the rain 5 week days prior to the 109th Tour de France.     

6 DAYS IN JAKARTA

As PR 535 penetrated Indonesian airspace, the PeduliLindungi opened up to admit Passenger 42H to South Jakarta where hints of mami and arroz caldo from a delectable bowl of soto ayam campur nasi permeated a security briefing in Jalan Warung Jati Barat where the nasi goreng kampung at Baronk actually originated. 

Yes, the empanada from Jalan SMA 14, the rice pastry of the Philantrophy Building and a lunch of paket nasi ayam bakar tasted familiar but the piled plates of gulai (beef tendon, cow brain, chicken) from 42H's first ever hidang dinner in a padang restaurant were as new and interesting like going through an electronic custom declaration.  

And there was a delectable bowl of soto komplit that inspired the hijacking of La Boutique Gourmand for a virtual conclave before the Sri Kandi Room conversations where the Deputy Minister compensated a cup of overpriced coffee with elevated local snacks and a buffet dinner at La Brassiere Restaurant.   

The lady merchant from Jalan Kali Pasir with mysterious shaded eyes was never umasked, not even with another hidang style lunch in Menteng where three variations of sambal fired up plates of sate padang, ayam pop and dendeng to precede the delegation from Jalan Gunung Sahari, also concealed like those who debriefed and dined at the Clovia Restaurant.    

And Penny Lane is not a lady from Liverpool but a house of beer, a fusion of the militant with the conventional like melding pucung gabus with mac and tacos through the faulty projector of Bromo 3.1. 

One Bintang, three Bali Hais and a beer tower later, the defenders convened at Gedung SOPO MSA for a haram feast of babi panggang, saksang and babi goreng that were in fact the side dishes of a carp head arsik from Northern Sumatra who before being cooked was fattened with sayur daun singkong tumbuk and a bottle of Singaraja from Bali.

Later that night, PR 736 summoned Passenger 32H with a One Health Pass that whisked him through the express lane where he recovered lost sleep and tried to thaw a frozen shoulder...