MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza ABS-CBN news anchor Bernadette Sembrano’s throw-away line during her extro, “I’m not going back to my old life!” was said with such glee and gusto, it made my day! She did not elaborate, but everyone who heard her knew what she meant. There’s merit in staying...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Having run out of new books to read, I picked through dusty shelves for something to rediscover. And there it was, a slender little book in sunset shades of orange and gold. During a black period of deadly assassinations, character assassination, attention-calling crimes,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza As the body count continues in Ukraine; as oil and food prices keep spiking; as temperatures inch up and the water level in Angat dam dips and the planet faces irreversible climate change, how do our candidates propose to solve that P12 trillion debt in the next six...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Just when people are more free to move around, here comes the one big reason to not move around so much. The escalating cost of fuel should keep us at home more than driving out on a whim or just because the car is parked, doing nothing. For reasons of safety from a virus...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Reunions big or small are important as a marker of time – how many months, years since the last greeting, the last meeting, the last get-together. In the last two years, we lost jobs, income, opportunities, colleagues, friends and lovers and other strangers, family...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Does Alert Level 1 read the return of bad manners in cinemas? People kicking the chair in front of them, eating popcorn cooked in rancid butter, unwrapping their green mango smothered in bagoong. People swapping movie reviews while the movie is unfolding on the screen,...
Celebrities Vicki Belo and Isabelle Daza discussed truths and misconceptions concerning sex, including the intricacies of the female sex organ, orgasms, the use of sexy toys and porn, among other things in a vlog. They did so hoping to eradicate the notion that such topics should remain taboo,...
IT'S A WRAP Fresh spring rolls Ever since the pandemic hit us, any chance I get to go out of town and release from the confines of my home, I look to the province. I make sure though that travel requirements are not so strict to avoid all the inconveniences of filling out all sorts of forms. I...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Is Vladimir Putin the ferocious and aggressive tiger that the world was expecting, though in a merely metaphorical sense, upon the entry of the Year of the Tiger? Ah, but a yoga teacher who is feng shui advocate Lillian Too’s representative/ambassador in the Philippines...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Because he speaks the language of the people (in a shade shy of PRRD’s colorful street talk and hilarious hyperboles), it’s easy to see where presidential candidate Manny Pacquiao is coming from and where he wants to go. The day after the faded commemoration of people...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Are we the only people celebrating a Valentine’s Month because one day is not enough to express feelings of love, romance, more love? Cecile Licad, all the way in New York, treated us in Metro Manila to a virtual “Amore” piano recital on the...
CHEF BUDS The author and Claude Every time "foodtrip" is mentioned, the first province that comes to mind is Pampanga. Foodtrip to me requires a little travel in search of treasure. It is not only its close proximity to Manila, but this province does have great food. For the past five or six years,...
