In all technicalities I am your Edsa1 baby, I was 1 when the people took the streets and overthrew the despotic Marcos regime. My parents  are apolitical, we were never taught the rigors of politics moreso discuss it at home.

But I knew she is no ordinary. I knew Cory through history books and only later when she hogged headlines as the political figure whom everyone calls Tita Cory, the faithful , the icon of democracy, the mother of Kris Aquino and Noynoy.

I cannot speak for the multitude of people whom she helped and inspired but I certainly feel for everybody who apparently lost a mother in Cory. I wasn’t able to squeeze and ram my way to Manila Cathedral. But I join my fellow Filipinos who are forever indebted to Cory.

*written at work, all channels tuned in to the funeral coverage. A nonworking holiday, working my ass off at the paper’s office. By the way, we are on unforgettable yellow hue. Just because.