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,...
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...
