MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza The father of a child enrolled in a classroom at home for distance or blended learning put it best when he said, “Ang nanay, maraming natututo.” (Mothers, they’re the ones learning much.) As parents and kids are finding out, the strategy is to let mama do the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Without trying to steal the thunder from Isko Moreno, the pressure is now on Senator Manny Pacquiao. Who’s going to be his running mate for vice president? Last we heard, there were six guys aspiring for that position, none of them audacious enough to drop the Champ’s...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Doctora Claire is a heart doctor, but four days in the week she is assigned to the hospital’s COVID ward. She begins her day when most people at home are just waking up, wondering how late the doctora got in last night. It’s almost always a long, psychologically...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For the first time in months, it didn’t feel so stressful to sit in front of the TV watching bad news and more bad news. On the first day of an experiment called alert level systems 1-5, supposedly a less strict classification of rules on behaving in public. Pure...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Finally, an admission from DILG Usec Jonathan Malaya: “ Nakakalito .” He meant “confusing” and he was talking about the various Q’s that we’ve had to live with and under, locked in and locked down, for the last 18 months. Not that the new Q-less grades are any...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza The stage is set for the Fight of the Century! In the blink of an eye, the Clash of the Titans! (Drum roll) In this corner, Sara Duterte, defending champion of poll surveys! In the other corner, Leni Robredo, challenger! The signs are all there. The drama no longer...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Stop calling them heroes but treating them like beggars. Pushing them against the wall, taking pleasure in their desperation, waiting for them to make good their threat to quit en masse. On National Heroes Day, doctors and nurses and other frontliners came out in small...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza There must be more than 5 million Manuels but there’s only one Manoling. Manoling Morato, 87, who held his moral compass close to his chest for use in his personal, social, and spiritual life. There was no gray with Manoling, only black and white, good vs bad, the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza While there are those who were dissatisfied with the President’s State of the (Vacci)Nation speech – three hours for what should have been a 60-minute address that he himself kept interrupting, to the consternation of the teleprompter’s page-turner – I found it...
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 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 Time to build your own bubble, whether you live in NCR-plus or not. Your bubble will keep you safe with your mask and face shield on. Imagine yourself at home or out of the house moving about, sheltered in a transparent dome, through which you see the world but which the...
