Jullie Y. Daza
Eat light
April 24, 2024 4:03 pm
Eat right, eat light.
If hot water comes out of the tap and you could fry an egg on the sidewalk, it’s time to skip a meal that’s heavy on meat, such as pork, beef, lamb. Blame the heat.
Desert or island
April 22, 2024 11:46 pm
Dubai, in the middle of the desert, swimming and sinking in floods wrought by rain. Manila, in the middle of an archipelago of 7,600 islands floating on blue-green water, crying and praying for rain.
Twinkle, twinkle
April 17, 2024 4:02 pm
On a warm summer night, what nicer place to hold a party than under a starlit sky, on a terrace overlooking a slope of hill outlined in fairy lights?
Working cool
April 15, 2024 10:21 pm
A long time ago T.S. Eliot said that April is the cruelest month. Another person, perhaps also a poet, said that “April is a promise that May is bound to keep.” What promise? In these our tropical islands, please make that the promise of rain, but rain without typhoons and floods.