MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Let’s not fly off the handle and blame “pilot error” for the crash of the C-130 military transport aircraft that killed 50 soldiers and injured scores of others, including three civilians who were on the ground, on the path of the plane when it fell from the sky. As...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Midnight when we arrived in Tagaytay to experience what we supposed would be the best and worst of Taal Volcano in action. With my biggest burliest buddies Leon and Joselito and their American friend Piggy (more a teddy bear, really), I bundled up my year-old baby and...
Netizens are used to seeing Luis Manzano and Alex Gonzaga teasing each other but Isabelle Daza? The model-actress daughter of Gloria Diaz, poked fun on Alex's latest milestone, gracing the cover of Harper’s Bazaar Vietnam for its 10th-year anniversary issue. View this post on Instagram After Alex...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza As they say, accidents happen in threes. First, a nurse was caught pricking the arm of a so-called vaccinee with air and no vaccine in a vaccination site in Makati. Then Senate President Tito Sotto said his son, QC Vice Mayor Gian Sotto, had told him about people talking...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza There I was, telling everyone with time and ears to listen how my vaccination was so efficiently done, painless, and negative for adverse reactions. When all that time I had no idea how perfectly possible it would’ve been to be “inoculated” without any drug going...
Medium Rare jullie Jullie Y. Daza All in one day, June 26, police and PDEA agents had their hands full and blotters bleeding with the ink of arrests and apprehensions of smalltime and “high-value” targets. By no means complete, media accounts mentioned the seizure of P9 million worth or 1 kg of...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza A few things the then president, PNoy, told me face to face, not from the long lens of current events becoming history, but from the short distance of a casual conversation: 1. “What are you doing there?” I was taking pictures of his leather slippers,...
To write about my recent Ilocos Norte food trip in one article is just not enough. I really wouldn’t mind driving nine hours again on these beautiful roads to experience all that wonderful and purely Pinoy-flavored food. One evening, we were invited to Kabulalohan, a...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A proliferation of candidates for vice president in 2022. And not a single brave soul other than Antonio Trillanes IV proclaiming his readiness for the presidency (though also for VP). A political analyst says it’s the smart thing to do, for a probable candidate not to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When it rains, it pours. Then it floods, an ocean of problems. Babies are being born smaller, many of them to girls hardly out of puberty. The IQ of Filipino teenagers has been dropping, until it hit rock bottom in a survey of 600,000 15-year-olds from 79 countries. God...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza On Independence weekend, no less. Time to snap the chains and proclaim liberation from the illegal imposition of indefinite prison terms on persons whose only crime is their age. The sky was blue, alternating with clouds of medium and opaque thicknesses, the simplicity of...
BLACK NOODLE CHRONICLES Dried dinuguan pancit Ilocos Norte has always been my second home. I lived there for a few years in the early ’80s, so whenever I visit now, it always brings back memories. A few months ago, I was back but for work. We did three shows for Foodprints. Of course, we had a...
