MEDIUM RARE Not the “isolationists” who are under detention waiting for their quarantines to lapse, but men and women who live without family or a significant other to make life easier or harder during pandemic times. Physical distancing being the norm and isolation facilities being law, is...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Of the virus mutating so quickly and infections rising so exponentially that as my friend observed, “the numbers now come with familiar faces.” Your son’s teachers are getting hit. His classmates, too. You’ve lost a colleague or a batchmate. A group of girls...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza “As old as time” is the saying that the rich get richer and the poor beget children. Likewise, money begets money – the bank will not give you a loan because you’re so poor that you need money. Well, this year’s list of the world’s super billionaires (in...
Erwan Heussaff and Isabelle Daza Support and love from Filipino artists to regular Juans continue to pour in to community quarantine all over the Philippines. The latest to show solidarity to the initiative (in discreet manner) is Erwan Heussaff. In a post by Twitter user @juswatiyan revealed that...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It was an idea whose time had come, so the next idea was to stop it in its tracks, nip it in the bud, squash it like an insect. By using the power of the police to scare the law-abiding, a few of them succeeded in making the name of Ana Patricia Non a household word....
Isabell Daza has given birth to her second child with husband Adrien Semblat. She made the big reveal on social media, sharing photos of her, her husband, and the newborn, a boy they named Valentin. View this post on Instagram The caption read, "Valentin, we are happy you exist." She also shared...
@isabelledaza Checking in at Matilda International Hospital, Hong Kong, Isabelle Daza and her husband Adrien Semblat both posted that Isabelle has given birth. View this post on Instagram "Valentin, we are so happy you exist," she posted. Congratulations!
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza He was Italian, but the voyage he embarked on with a Portuguese-born explorer who owed his fealty to Spain would make him world-famous. But as diarist, chronicler, map-maker, linguist, and amanuensis of Ferdinand Magellan, Pigafetta made this part of the world famous,...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza If you cannot think out of the box because it’s too small and crammed, you might as well think of the backyard with extra space plus sunshine and shade, maybe even a whiff of fresh air. Or something like that anyway. Red Cross Chairman and Sen. Dick Gordon must’ve...
Aside from fresh produce, what you ought to be looking for is a friend in the market Funny how almost everyone you talk to these days have become doctors. They all have the solution on how to solve this COVID pandemic. They give you advice on what vaccine is best based on what they’ve read on...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Physical and social distancing, it’s the law! So we make people, mostly women, line up for one and a half kilometers to claim their ayuda . Being in dire straits, we can only give P4,000 maximum per family and expect them to live on that for one to two weeks. To...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza That’s how many mostly mild and asymptomatic COVID-19 patients were tagged as “recovered” last Sunday. Reasons enough to cheer – but what do the numbers mean? ABS-CBN’s latest superstar, Edson Guido, head of data analytics, explains it this way: “What DOH is...
