MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Dolomite, dolomite! “What’s the fuss?” asked an exasperated photographer, Sonny E, who has seen lots of beaches, more beautiful and less controversial than the one along Roxas Blvd. If he was tearing his hair as he said so, would Sonny have ripped his shirt as...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza He looks like a cop, walks like a cop, talks like a cop, moves around like a cop, indeed, like the top cop that he is. But thanks to a crazy law that has produced a succession of PNP chiefs with ultra-short tours of duty, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar is leaving the service...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Philippines always late? Not when it comes to ingenious ways to make crime pay. On Oct. 23, a drone made its maiden flight in Toronto, Canada, to deliver human lungs for transplant to a hospital 1.2 km away. The event made headlines around the world. Three days before...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For days on end, TV correspondents could not get over how parents and their tykes swarmed Manila’s Dolomite Beach because the children had to have their fresh air, outdoor exercise, and liberation from 19 months of cabin fever. Adults who had been feeling the same sense...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza At long last, I can say I’ve a friend (of 40 years) who’s in the presidential sweepstakes to lead this country for the next six years. Alas, he has to beat 96 other candidates dreaming the same dream. Antonio “Butch” Valdes, CPA, businessman, commentator, pundit,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Having been liberated by the downgrading to “moderate risk” of Metro Manila as a COVID magnet, what was there to do but jump in the car – my own “bubble” – and see for myself what I’d been missing, scenery wise, for nearly two years. This is my verdict....
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Do you remember what you did four days ago, where you went and whom you met? In a nutshell, that’s the problem of a contact tracer trying to jog the memory of someone whose task is to tick off their answers to a list of questions designed not for an individual person...
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT MEAT Quorn products in various pasta applications Whenever I go out to tape my show Foodprints on Metro Channel, I come back feeling heavy and with a guilty conscience having pigged out. But my justification is “it’s my job.” So, on the way back, I’m already...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Baguio, the summer capital, now just a capital without summer as storm winds lashed and tropical rain fell in sheets alternating with drizzles. In one corner of the cake shop at Baguio Country Club on the first working day of the week, I thought I spotted the general,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza As an admirer of political scientist Clarita Carlos – and even if I were not – I agree with her sagacious opinion: Groom the young ones and see them shine! If Prof Carlos was talking about political candidates, I would guess she had in mind, without naming names,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza As of the Oct. 8 deadline for the filing of certificates of candidacy, more than 60 citizens of the Republic want to be president to solve our problems, current and perennial. Having accepted their applications, Comelec assured voters that they are all qualified. Not...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza How do opinion surveys like those that pop up every election season compare with astrology, feng shui, and plain guesswork? Manila Mayor Isko Moreno, a leading contender in the presidential polls, was all set to file his certificate of candidacy on Oct. 1 when someone in...
