How to Survive this Lockdown               It’s been weeks since the lockdown began, and how are you faring? I left the Philippines on the day the lockdown began, March 15, and arrived in Malaysia, where I work, a day before their own lock down began. I had no Wifi and until now use my mobile-phone hotspot to communicate with the world.               I had asked my yaya to press my shirts and pants in Manila, and so they went to my luggage, as well as my comfort food for this lockdown: tuyo in bottles, corned beef made in the Philippines, powdered preparations for afritada, caldereta, menudo, palabok, and tocino.               In a famous essay called “Where’s the Patis?”, award-winning writer Carmen Guerrero Nakpil said that you can bring the Filipino to lands faraway and genteel, but y...