MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When there’s nothing new, yet things are neither normal nor abnormal, what do you call it? Unusual times call for unusual deeds and styles. Look at the way the election campaign is going. The President’s administration party has been so shamefacedly misadministered...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Where in the world can you find a president of his country who’s willing to kneel and beg the vaccine-resistant to take a shot, otherwise he’d inject them in one ear and let it go out the other ear? Hilarious! Complete with hand gestures and a straight face, Mr....
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza News item, Feb. 16: “Showbiz celebrities Vice Ganda and Glaiza de Castro revealed they got hitched on Valentine’s Eve.” Did Vice ditch Ion in Vegas? Two years after “Crash Landing on You” became the top Korean hit in the Philippines, its stars announced last...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza At last I’ve found someone who doesn’t watch K-dramas for the simple reason that “I don’t like them, period.” For the rest of us pandemic-induced couch potatoes cooked in and hooked on Netflix, Hallyu was pretty much how we survived ECQ, MGCQ, Alert Level 3 and...
MARIKINA MENUDO Waknatoy of Mama Chit When I moved to my present home a few years before the turn of the century, the village only had a few houses and they were far apart. Most properties were vacant with tall grass and unattended areas. There was a road from Balara that would pass through our...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Yes, he did, the magic words that I’ve been waiting to hear throughout the campaign and for the longest time, years and years since the last century. In Pursuit of Excellence is the title of a book written by Terry Orlick, a sports psychologist, in 1980. In real life...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It’s hard not to find a Manny Pacquiao interview interesting, whatever point of the compass you may be at. He doesn’t use big words and frankly, he looks too nervous to be telling a lie. His artless style sounds appealing, coming from the man of the masses that he is....
This Chinese discovery on Arnaiz Street will give Hong Kong restaurants a run for their money HONG KONG FLARE Sliced abalone with sea moss and lettuce; and minced shrimps with bean curd and scallops When asked what my most favorite food in the world is, I get confused. I love the simplicity, the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza The first day of the calendar year arrived on Jan. 1. Came Jan. 9, the first of many Sundays in what the Church calls “ordinary time.” Today, Feb. 1, is the first day of the Lunar New Year. Fr. Francis Alvarez, SJ, puts it succinctly: “So many starts.” Going by...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Just because there are 12 senators to be elected come May 9, the race has not attracted or generated half the excitement, the noise, or the scrutiny that’s its due. The senatorial candidates come from the ranks of reelectionists, returnees, and new faces. It’s the...
BREAKFAST TOGETHER The author and his family at the restaurant Before the pandemic, my Bible group would meet every Wednesday evening. We were divided into two groups, taking turns in preparing the food. Serving delicious food every week proved to be a challenge. The other group had a graduate of...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza After the noise and buzz over BBM’s nonappearance on a TV show, the flak was quickly followed by a fluke. On TV 5’s Frontline newscast immediately after that no-show on GMA 7, netizens polled for their reactions to the day’s most newsy event (or nonevent) showed an...
