MEDIUM RARE Have you ever seen a cache of money laid out before you in the hundreds of millions and billions and billions? Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman opened her eyes wide and affirmed, “Yes, yes, when I was with the central bank!” At home, where she lives with her parents as an only...
Actress Isabelle Daza recently welcomed her first daughter. On Instagram, she uploaded photos of her holding her third child as she lays in a hospital bed. According to her, the new addition to their familyarrived last March 23 at 11:03 p.m. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Isabelle Daza...
MEDIUM RARE An old friend used to say that “the coolest place to be is your car,” but that was before the price of petrol hit the roof at P60 and up. Nowadays the place to cool off is the mall. As long as one is able to resist the lure of impulse buying, the mall is a safe place to crawl and...
"A baby girl, born on March 23, 2023 at 23:03," posted Isabelle Daza-Semblat on her Instagram account. She posted more on her stories, sharing who paid her a visit. These visitors include "fairy godmothers" Rajo Laurel and Nix Alanon, "the other mother" Georgina Wilson, and Raymond...
MEDIUM RARE Ten months to prep a wedding, from the finest detail to the grandest gesture. Sixteen years to turn from sweethearts to an affianced couple, finally to Mr. and Mrs. Sixteen years? Time enough to grow a family, but Darv Diaz and Bianca Angala wanted to be sure, very sure. Were their...
Northern Samar 1st district Rep. Paul Daza has some choice words for Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) Chairman Prospero de Vera III on the issue of the agency's alleged poor utilization of the Higher Education Development Fund (HEDF). "I maintain my position that Chairman De Vera is not a...
MEDIUM RARE In the midst of a shortage of food and water, we’re wasting and throwing away food and water. ‘Tis summer, and as usual the National Water Resource Board’s primary source of water is to multiply its reminders for us to conserve water. What happened to the water released from the...
MEDIUM RARE Forget your K-dramas. Walk away from thrilling, gory, violent crime serials. Documentaries are interesting but not all of them are fun to watch. Introducing Philomena Cunk, if you haven’t met her yet. She’ll make you cry when you laugh, and laugh when you should be crying. All...
MEDIUM RARE It’s the end of an era when the good sisters of St. Paul University, one of a handful of schools offering bachelor and doctoral degrees in music, opens its doors for a concert, “the first time in three years,” according to Dean Raul Sunico. Opening-night honors on March 15 went to...
Featured image: Test Kitchen's Wagyu Beef Cheeks Among the thousands of chefs, there are a handful of them I admire in the country. Many of them I’ve met personally and many I’ve seen on television. I’ve been to many of their restaurants and I must say it is amazing how creative many of them...
MEDIUM RARE If detectives and crime writers go by the cliché, “cherchez la femme” (look for the woman), when they’re trying to solve a crime, bankers and economists go by the rule to “follow the money.” People with a nose for money understand that the trail begins with how money produces...
MEDIUM RARE As Fr. Jerry Orbos used to say, three rings are the hallmark of married life. Engagement ring, wedding ring, suffering. As all other priests will tell you, suffering underlies the human condition. It’s like saying you cannot escape suffering if you’re human. Catholics are reminded...
