Once in every 50 years when the Parsiana office is repainted as part of its half century beautification program, all personnel are required to go through their collection of folders, files, clippings, CDs, floppy discs, expired aspirin strips, half eaten batasas and clear out non-essentials.
To our amazement at the bottom of a pile of files dumped between the editorial and advertising departments, a staff member came across a handwritten manuscript lodged in a shoe box. At first we thought the box contained — you guessed it — velvet sapats but when we shook the cardboard container we heard only a......