MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza She’s a young 60-year-old who graduated summa cum laude with a baccalaureate degree many years ago. Her present job in a nonprofit mandates the foundation to work with farmers, senior citizens, and civic groups invested in promoting agriculture as well as small...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Now that Christmas has arrived – not finally, but initially, like an unexpected spontaneous combustion – we can say that the holiday wishes of Henry Lim Bon Liong, Joey Concepcion, and Sergio Ortiz-Luis have come true. Not to mention those of the millions of children,...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza On All Souls Day when millions of the living were back at work or doing their WFH chores, I chose to register my existence with the state’s stamp and documentation to prove it. It is not as if I had no passport or senior citizen’s card or a driver’s license, but...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza Kris Aquino lost several pounds due to a personal crisis but gained the love – “I feel he loves me” – of Mel Sarmiento, her fiancé, who has never looked more lovestruck. His effect on Kris has been immediately palpable. There’s now a sense of calm around her,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Dolomite, dolomite! “What’s the fuss?” asked an exasperated photographer, Sonny E, who has seen lots of beaches, more beautiful and less controversial than the one along Roxas Blvd. If he was tearing his hair as he said so, would Sonny have ripped his shirt as...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza He looks like a cop, walks like a cop, talks like a cop, moves around like a cop, indeed, like the top cop that he is. But thanks to a crazy law that has produced a succession of PNP chiefs with ultra-short tours of duty, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar is leaving the service...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Philippines always late? Not when it comes to ingenious ways to make crime pay. On Oct. 23, a drone made its maiden flight in Toronto, Canada, to deliver human lungs for transplant to a hospital 1.2 km away. The event made headlines around the world. Three days before...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For days on end, TV correspondents could not get over how parents and their tykes swarmed Manila’s Dolomite Beach because the children had to have their fresh air, outdoor exercise, and liberation from 19 months of cabin fever. Adults who had been feeling the same sense...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Baguio, the summer capital, now just a capital without summer as storm winds lashed and tropical rain fell in sheets alternating with drizzles. In one corner of the cake shop at Baguio Country Club on the first working day of the week, I thought I spotted the general,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza As an admirer of political scientist Clarita Carlos – and even if I were not – I agree with her sagacious opinion: Groom the young ones and see them shine! If Prof Carlos was talking about political candidates, I would guess she had in mind, without naming names,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza How do opinion surveys like those that pop up every election season compare with astrology, feng shui, and plain guesswork? Manila Mayor Isko Moreno, a leading contender in the presidential polls, was all set to file his certificate of candidacy on Oct. 1 when someone in...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza As senior citizens’ champion Romy Macalintal puts it, why are those survey results coming out so early in the game? Early, Attorney, with the filing of certificates of candidacy now in full swing? What I find audacious is not the timing but the unexpected scores – how...
