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...
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....
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...
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...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza Sunny is going the extra mile. Her house looks like a showroom for anti-COVID gadgets and equipment. The air is misted by a disinfectant, besides which purifiers and ionizers are on the job at all hours. Everyone at home – all eight adults – is mandated to wear masks...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Unflappable. Nothing could excite him (except perhaps a parade of whole-pig lechons). Nothing surprised him. He had seen it all, been there, done that, commented on every topic on or under the radar. As a newspaper editor Jun Icban was not the picture of a man in a...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza Except in exceptionally affluent neighborhoods, no panic buying occurred upon the ECQ2 declaration during the Holy Week, nor after this was extended by another seven days. Well, what did you expect? No work, no pay; no pay, no shopping; ergo no panic buying, only panic....
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza For the first time in one year – 52 weeks – I attended a real mass in Baguio last month, at St. Joseph Pacdal parish church in Baguio City. (Sheepishly, I confess that the day before, I had my first full-body massage, also in the Pines City, after 54 weeks. After all,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Mask-Iwas-Hugas-Vax . How my “drama queen” classmate describes her state of mind and body the night before she was told she would, as a senior citizen, get her jab of AstraZeneca vaccine: “My whole body trembled like it was Taal volcano! I lost sleep, I wanted to...
