VISAYAN BREAKTHROUGH Clockwise from top left: Fish lumpia; grilled managat; grilled fish eggs or bihod; and crispy crablets The recently concluded campaign has become so toxic and negative that friends have been lost. Many unfriends happened on Facebook and even family members have become divided....
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza The biggest voter turnout, 88 percent. Fastest vote count. By 6:30 p.m. on May 10, a total of 98 percent of votes counted, unofficially. More peaceful, with fewer election-related crimes reported than in previous exercises. The biggest margin won by a presidential...
And neither is this book history, though someday it might well be “Chinatown is not a place,” declared journalist-author Jullie Yap Daza to her friends. Now that sentence is the title of her latest book. Technically, Chinatown is one square kilometer in size, an area surrounded by streets whose...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For many people, it’s the mourning after. But they must know that the winners, and those expecting to be proclaimed winners, won’t be spared from a bad, bad case of nerves. History is replete with stories of battle-tested generals and warriors who felt the price of...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Oldtimers do believe that the elections this time around are the most “toxic” yet – to use Yorme’s vocabulary – and it may largely be due to the influence of social media. Seen in this light, anti-social would be more appropriate. If the air is no longer fresh...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza If the politically influential Iglesia ni Cristo have made and proclaimed their choices, perhaps it’s time you did. If you haven’t, the following names might help you decide. Liza. . . Dynee . . . Jinkee . . . Alice. Each a potential first lady. With Cory we did not...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza This is the second to the last weekend before D-Day, D for decision. For candidates, D is for deadline, eight days before voters get out the vote on Monday, May 9. In elections past, elections were held on a Tuesday, but what’s past is past. For one thing, elections...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Everyone’s a winner when you look at the size and enthusiasm of the crowds greeting, screaming their hearts out, hailing their candidates like victors ready to be crowned. The latest survey by Laylo researchers gives BBM-Sara’s Uniteam a formidable, unshakable lead...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza There are 10 million senior citizens, and if most of them are qualified voters – going by the age requirement, they are 100 percent eligible – do you suppose they’ll be voting as one for the one and only Senior Citizens Party-list? As it happens the SCP-list is just...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza That L, in my book, stands for Legendary, although the complete initials spell Luis C. Singson. Does anybody know Chavit Singson by his Christian or any other name or aliases? Local (and legendary) kingpin, a kingmaker even outside his beloved Ilocos Sur, a national and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Yes, the Constitution guarantees a free press, but being a human institution, there’s no escaping media bias even where none is intended. Still, for watchers of television news, radio listeners, newspaper readers, what fun to navigate election news and coverage of the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For the first time in political history (I think) three presidential candidates from three different parties came together to break bread with the press to reiterate their singular battlecry: “Come what may, we’re in this together!”; “ Tuloy ang laban !”; “...
