THE MAN WHO COULD NOT GET AWAY

He who could not stay cannot get away, exiled by a nanometer-sized virion and surviving on biking, Netflix and a Thursday club with the neighbors.

His was in a suspended state of "buro", which sounds like Boru, which refers to a wolf pack or a tense and perennially angry special police squad from Ankara, almost a madhouse of misfits, which is like serving sashimi, oysters and sinigang na lechon for a Sunday breakfast. 

Cooking somehow tamed the ennui of the long hours of the quarantine with bowls of cocido-style stew and pochero served to fete the triumph of Sis. Irene, Fr. Burke and Frenchie over the nun of of Transylvania.

Chen and Chewing Gum's tragedy in Macau and the mayhem in Busan were also memorialized with a pot of kansi that is as temptuous as Yenical while what was left of the thieves gather in Hong Kong to reflect on their betrayal with a feast of gotong Batangas. 

Such is the fate of a globetrotter in the time of COVID-19, imperious among the mortals of Bakal 2 but trapped in the gilded cage of working-from-home where resentment against the Duke of Edinburgh transformed to admiration in Episode 4 as The Outsider mentored the British monarchy through the naivety of the Prince of Wales and his obsession with the Duchess of Cornwall, and the scandalous affairs of the Countess of Snowdon and Princess Royal for the sake of the crown and the Royal House of Windsor's survival.

So the frequent flyer drunk more than usual, starting with leftover brandy on Monday followed by whiskey on Wednesday then an extra-strong lager on Thursday and finally a pale golden lager on Friday in a week that the Phantom Bikers dedicated in finding the title lost to Diana, Princess of Wales, in the trails of Munoz, Talugtug and Guimba.