I called up Roger, my Filipino colleague, “Pare, tara! Kain na tayo.”
“Sige, sunod na ako.”
I was reading the paper when I saw him enter the pantry in my peripheral vision. Shocked by the news, I told him, “Pre, patay na pala si Britanny Murphy?”
I heard him say, “Huh!?”
I looked up, it wasn’t him. It was Faisal Khan, my Pakistani colleague, “I didn’t get you. I only understood ‘Murphy’.”
I apologized and explained it to him, “I thought you were Roger.”
When Roger came to the pantry, Faisal told him, “Roger, Britanny Murphy is dead.”
