MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Are we the only people celebrating a Valentine’s Month because one day is not enough to express feelings of love, romance, more love? Cecile Licad, all the way in New York, treated us in Metro Manila to a virtual “Amore” piano recital on the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When there’s nothing new, yet things are neither normal nor abnormal, what do you call it? Unusual times call for unusual deeds and styles. Look at the way the election campaign is going. The President’s administration party has been so shamefacedly misadministered...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza At last I’ve found someone who doesn’t watch K-dramas for the simple reason that “I don’t like them, period.” For the rest of us pandemic-induced couch potatoes cooked in and hooked on Netflix, Hallyu was pretty much how we survived ECQ, MGCQ, Alert Level 3 and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Just because there are 12 senators to be elected come May 9, the race has not attracted or generated half the excitement, the noise, or the scrutiny that’s its due. The senatorial candidates come from the ranks of reelectionists, returnees, and new faces. It’s the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza On one of my rare visits to the supermarket, a display of garbage bags – not in black – attracted my attention. They stood out because they were packaged in sunny colors and labeled as pleasant-smelling garbage bags, thanks to the added value of fruit and flower...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza This time it’s fear that’s fueling the surges. Fear is good if it keeps parents from taking their tykes out for a walk in the park along with 20,000 other people. Fear is good if it pulls us back from going out for the sake of going out. Fear is good if it keeps us...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza In her 2021 book, The Madness of Crowds, the novelist Louise Penny writes: “What’s a year? Why do we need a new year? Is the old one broken?” Not all memories are good, but the following list shows that as in using a stairway, there’s always an upstairs and a...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Gifts unwrapped. Boxes torn open (why the day after Christmas is also known as boxing day in Western countries, when presents bought in a store are allowed to be returned or exchanged for another size, style, or color). Some children looking disappointed. There’s always...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For the first time in two years of lockdown I dared set foot in a flashy hotel-casino-resort and not feel guilty about it (without an escort). To reach the restaurant where I was to meet friends, I was advised by a tallish usherette to walk through the casino, straight...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza The 99.9 percent solution applies to commonly used household products, everything from bath soap, detergent, disinfectant, toilet bowl cleaner, even shampoo, everything that requires cleaning and cleansing, getting rid of germs, or so the TV commercials say. As the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Why is the camp of Bongbong Marcos not replying to accusations that he has not paid his taxes, not filed his income tax returns? “Why should we do their work for them?” said a source in BBM’s inner circle. “They make accusations that cannot stick and they’re too...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Is Yorme’s movie showing? How many voters can afford a P350 ticket? Fans of Isko Moreno, presidential candidate, can’t find the so-called biopic in the mall screenings despite press releases quoting his director’s announcement of a Dec. 1 playdate for “Yorme: The...
