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...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It’s six months to Christmas 2021! Mike L, who reads three newspapers over breakfast every morning, complains, “All I see are headlines and stories about COVID, COVID, COVID!” For Mike’s sake and other readers who need a breath of fresh air, here are three short...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Robredo/Trillanes/Poe/Villanueva/Diokno/Santos-Recto. No Pacquiao. A let-down! 1Sambayan’s list of nominees for the presidential and senatorial elections next year is, to put it kindly, totally unexciting. Pacman, the most famous Filipino in the world, hurt by his...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Until the pandemic came along, who knew how a great many of us suffered from one type or another of allergies? The most asked question being “Have you been vaccinated?” followed by the second most asked, “What brand?”, it stands to reason that the next question...
Adrien Semblat and Isabelle Daza Netizens frowned at Isabelle Daza for a photo of her and her husband Adrien Semblat wearing caps with "Vaccinated by Pfizer." Apparently, some online users were offended by the couple's gesture and saw it as being "boastful." "If it's meant to raise awareness on the...
