NEW YORKER IN TONDO SCRIPT
Kikay - A girl who goes to New York and falls in love with it. She acquires all the New Yorkers' things - style, looks, language and manners.
Mrs. Mendoza / Aling Atang, mother of Kikay, has been carried away by her daughter's way of living. She tries to converse with everybody in broken English.
Tony, sweetheart of Kikay, decides to visit and catch things up with his friend. He is a simple guy who got secretly engaged with their other childhood friend, Nena.
Nena is a tomboyish type of girl. On her visit in Kikay's house, she finds her friend different and weird. She gets irritated.
Totoy, the Tondo "canto boy" is their other friend who is funny and has a secret love for Nena which has only been revealed when the two females had a clash.

Scene 1:
*doorbell rings*
Mrs. M: (Gets up from seat) Visitors, always visitors, nothing but visitors all day long. I'm beginning to feel like a society matron. (opens door)
Mrs. M: Tony! I thought you were on the province.
Tony: Is that you Aling Atang?
Mrs. M: of course it's me, foolish boy. Why?
Tony: You don't look like Aling Atang.Mrs. M: I had a haircut. Think it's horrible?
Tony: Oh, no, no. You look just wonderful. Aling Atang for a moment, I thought you were Kikay.
Mrs. M: Oh, you are so palikero as ever, Tony. But come in. Here, sit down.
(Tony takes a seat) How is your mother? (Hands him a glass of juice from the table)
Tony: Thank you. Oh, my poor mother. She's homesick for Tondo. (Sips juice) She wants to come back here at once. Hey, this is pretty good.
Mrs. M: Thank you. How long have you been away? (Tony drinks more juice)
Tony: Only 3 months.
Mrs. M: Three months!!! It's too long for a Tondo native to be away from Tondo. My poor kumare. She must be bored to death out there. (Tony drinks more juice)
Tony: Well, you know, we engineers are always on call. But as