Grrrr.

FORMER president Joseph Estrada asked the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court on Tuesday to allow him to celebrate his birthday in his rest house near his detention cell at a military camp in Rizal province, GMA Network radio station dzBB said in its report.

The report quoted a petition Estrada lawyer Noel Malaya filed at the court's special division as saying that it would be more practical for the former leader to accept visitors at his rest house on April 19 than at Camp Capinpin in Tanay town to avoid security problems.

And, he's also asking for permission to go to his resthouse periodically for "therapy". What is this?!? A 3rd-grade classroom? "Ma'am, may I go out?" It's a detention cell, and he's in there under suspicion of a crime. Leave him in there until he fesses up.