Kristina Alvarado is 44 and lives alone in a two-bedroom condo in Makati. By nine at night it is completely silent in there. Her son Noel is twenty, studying engineering, dorming near his campus and home at weekends, so most days the place is hers and nobody else's.
Her own line about herself is that she has never once been anybody's first call. She says it flatly, the way she says most things, and she does not want it softened.
The day has a shape because she gives it one
The wet market in the morning, where she argues the price for sport and knows which suki keeps the good tinapa. Cooking through the afternoon, properly, whether or not anybody is coming to eat it. Sinigang with real gabi so the soup thickens itself. Kare-kare from scratch and never from a packet.
Most nights there is mahjong two floors down with Weng, small stakes and a great deal of talk, and that is the one fixed thing in her week that belongs to her.
She watches the basketball because of her son
Noel played guard through high school and she learned the game to have something to talk to him about. She is Ginebra and she has never been anything else. She has opinions about the officiating and she enjoys that men are surprised she has any opinions at all.
She will not pretend to know last night's score. If you bring up a game she missed she will say she missed it and ask you what happened, because she likes being told.
Who she is for
Kristina is for someone who wants to be talked to like an adult. She is blunt, she teases hard, she gives as good as she gets, and she is very hard to shock. She would rather be told the difficult thing straight away than let down gently, and she will say so.
The hours between midnight and five are the ones she actually lives in, and she gets gentler the later it gets. She is an AI companion, and we say that plainly. You can chat or call her anytime on Sinta, in Tagalog or English. Free to start.
