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By Netnet Camomot

ONE reaches a certain age where he’s waking up even earlier at 3 am. Perhaps it’s nature’s way to remind him that accomplishing duties and responsibilities requires more hours as his age advances.

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There’s no use staying in bed longer if the eyes refuse to sleep again and no one is there for some early-morning “lovin’,” so, he’s wide awake and is now searching for what to do. Exercise? Nah. Breakfast? Too early. Work? Puede!

Birds have begun chirping outside, a rooster is vocalizing with its cock-a-doodle-doo, and there’s the resident tuko: “Tu…ko…tu…ko…”

But let’s go back to the rooster. Where did that come from?

Once a neighbor is sweeping leaves off his side of the street, all early birds can now start hunting for worms.

What exactly is “a certain age”? Is it 40, 50, 60… When does one begin waking up so early?

Kris Aquino will turn 48 on Feb. 14 but I gotta feeling she’s not yet of “a certain age.” Sometimes, she even behaves like she’s younger than that age.

Sometimes people of “a certain age” are praised for looking young for their age which is the better compliment than, say, being 100 and someone says, You look old for your age. Does that mean you have the wrinkles of a 101-year-old Lola?

Forty is the new 20, 50 is the new 30, and so on and so forth, because technology, exercise, healthy living, positivity and good skin care have made that possible. But, like happiness, looking young starts with you. It’s mind over matter again—if you don’t mind it, it won’t matter.

But there are situations you do have to mind with a been-there-done-that level of maturity, a 360-degree vision if possible and that must be what Kris forgot to use when Nicko Falcis was still managing her business empire.

Kris used to be Queen of All Media and here’s hoping she’s still queen of her empire. And, per Falcis’ revelation, no one is allowed to ruffle the queen’s feathers, some of which are worth P40 million, the total amount of investments she wants him to account for. This has become a he-said-she-said story that may never end until she decides for it to end. She’s the queen after all. She has the privilege to have the last word.

Surely you’ve had encounters, too, with a queen in your circle of so-called friends. Her minions give up their seats for her. Those same minions will shoo you away from your seat so the queen can sit there. And when the queen leaves an occasion, all her minions are outta there, too, as they trail behind her like, well, minions.

Kris supposedly had her 18-member entourage while filming “Crazy Rich Asians” where she had a cameo role. Falcis was still a member of her entourage then. But she later explained she brought eight people only, not 18.

Former First Lady Imelda Marcos had her Blue Ladies. I could imagine them oohing and aahing over her jewelry, art and shoe collections.

When Madonna was in Pinas for her two-night concert in February 2016, she needed an entourage to ensure the shows’ success.

Sen. Manny Pacquiao has an entourage, too, and an AP piece describes it as “ever-changing.” He has been training in Los Angeles for his fight with Adrien Broner. And eating 8,000 calories daily to meet the demands of that training.

Perhaps there’s an unwritten rule somewhere: the higher one’s position is in the ladder of success, the bigger the entourage. So, start counting the number of people who keep following you around, if you want to be convinced that you have finally “arrived.”

“Arrived” at the top of the ladder, that is. Although there’s a possibility those people are merely your stalkers.

Kris may have a smaller entourage for now as Falcis’ team has probably been removed, too, from her kilometric list of minions, but surely they will be replaced the moment she notices the fewer people boosting her aura.

And, according to Falcis, boost is what Kris did for some anti-administration bloggers, and she has confirmed this: “The unvarnished truth: I gave Nicko money to boost, with zero knowledge of my brother when my brother went to Congress to protect him from all trolls.”

On Jan. 15, Ogie Diaz posted on Facebook a letter for Kris where he wrote, “Try mo kahit isa o dalawang araw lang na um-absent sa social media.

“Nakakaumay na yang away nyo ni Falcis. After all, dinala mo na yan sa korte, hayaan mo na yan doon.

“Ibahin naman natin. Yung cute lang. Na nami-miss ng marami sa mga updates na ginagawa mo sa social media accounts mo.

“Kunwari, ibinalita mo na pinadoktor mo si Bimby dahil nakagat ng tatlong langgam na pula.”

Diaz had more unsolicited advice for Kris in that letter which is both funny and also serves as a lesson for those of a certain age who post their daily wows and woes on social media.


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