Medium Rare On his first day as Land Transportation Office chief, Hector Villacorta was greeted by an enthusiastic fixer. “Renewal, renewal!” was the shouted offer, “two thousand pesos!” A rude awakening, a signal of things to come that cry to be banished forever? Indeed, eliminating fixers...
MEDIUM RARE There’s bad news and there’s bad news, but some news is so bad that readers’ or viewers’ attention does not falter, in fact they become more riveted as the story worsens and dramatic details unravel. This was the case last week when the world watched with bated breath as the...
MEDIUM RARE Filipinos go to Bangkok mostly for the shopping, secondarily for the food. There’s a kind of similarity between Thai and Filipino cuisine, so much so that when Conrad Hotel brought in Chef Mink Suraraksa from Bangkok’s Waldorf Astoria for their Legendary Chefs Series with focus on...
MEDIUM RARE He could not have been older than 13 or 14, crouching over a plot of land beneath which lay the remains of (possibly) his father. If a photographer had been present, what a shot he could’ve taken. It was Father’s Day last Sunday the 18th. The memorial park was as busy as a typical...
Northern Samar 1st district Rep. Paul Daza (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Northern Samar 1st district Rep. Paul Daza says he agrees with Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Ted Herbosa's stand in that the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) should relax its rules. Daza, the senior deputy...
MEDIUM RARE Does the Rotary Club of Manila have more fun? They meet every blessed week without getting bored or tired of each other’s faces, but it could also be that I happen to have more friends in this club than in any other. More likely, the truth is that their projects don’t seem to gather...
MEDIUM RARE We arrived for lunch and saw a long table all set and ready for us. What I was not prepared for was the sight of two extremely beautiful, extremely expensive cars, an Audi and a Porsche (model Taycan, spelled almost like Toycar) parked daintily in the dining area, like they were waiting...
House Senior Deputy Minority Leader Northern Samar 1st district Rep. Paul Daza (Rep. Daza's office) Northern Samar 1st district Rep. Paul Daza is encouraging Filipinos to consider adopting children following the launch of the omnibus guidelines of Republic Act (RA) No.11642 or the Domestic...
MEDIUM RARE It could’ve been a triple whammy. Taal-Mayon-Kanlaon showed signs of restiveness simultaneously, but after volcanologists said the three were not related – not even distant cousins? – two of them quickly calmed down, leaving Mayon alone fuming. Otherwise, imagine the cost of...
MEDIUM RARE Two days in a row, PBBM shook hands and rubbed elbows with two of the most prominent, clubby Chinese-Filipino organizations, and twice he thanked them for their “astuteness and wisdom” in helping grow the economy as a partner of government. One day after President Marcos Jr....
MEDIUM RARE The invasion happened round about 2005 when ABS-CBN imported the first Korean soap, after which Filipino audiences could not have enough of K-drama. Years later, when Paolo was 10 years old, I heard him arguing with his father, who was all set to take the family on a vacation to Seoul....
MEDIUM RAR E That “small screen” as it used to be called is no longer small. The standard size now is 40-plus inches diagonally across, and in some homes a 100-inch set is all part of the furniture. Besides its size as an appliance, TV has grown in such importance that it is now the primary...
