Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza How can the days fly by so swiftly when what lies ahead is more of the same -- routine, boredom . . .? Before anyone offers an enlightening Einstein-like answer, let’s fast-forward to September, when Christmas unofficially begins. But before we do the countdown,...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza Scramble the letters in “pandemic” and what do you get? Pain, panic. Who’s panicking? COVID-19 variants are coming at us faster and packing a deadlier punch with each mutation. Fear of the unknown can be a pain, but like the good doctor says, no need to panic. Not...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza With the passing of Henry Sy, and Glecy and Bienvenido Tantoco, best known as the lords of retail who changed the shopping landscape of our cities in the last century, what do their descendants have up their sleeve? Their ancestors are a tough act to follow. Expert...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza As my friend Armi puts it so eloquently, “Shopping is better than sex!” She said this as she pushed three jumbo carts filled to the brim and headed to the cashier’s at Duty Free Philippines. Money is no object, she could have added, unlike sex, which you pay for in...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A good thing, too, for kids five years old and older stepping out of their discomfort zones to enjoy the outdoors – on the beach, in the park, anywhere but not a mall. The idea that they should accompany an adult is sound. Children are street-smart and tech-savvy in...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza President Duterte running for vice president? VP Robredo aiming for the presidency? What if they both win? A recurring daily nightmare for the two winners as well as the state? As Mr. Duterte himself said, musingly, as if he were talking to himself, he cannot imagine...
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...
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,...
