MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A colleague used to call it a “pay day economy” because no one pulled out bills from their wallet until the day after the 15th and 30th of the month to pay for rent, food, utilities and other obligations. They couldn’t plan on going on a movie date or to the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Thinking of climbing up to the only fully airconditioned city in the Philippines? Do it now! Don’t wait for December, not for the New Year! Getting more crowded by the day, by the weekend, it is. The climate is almost Christmas-like, temperatures at minimum 16 to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Once upon a time, a high-profile VIP was at her wits’ end wondering where she could tour her high-profile VVIP visitors from abroad. These were worldly, sophisticated travelers who flew from Paris to Prague at the drop of a coin, so the mission was to show them how the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A study in contrasts is a study in presidential styles. PRRD threatened to go house to house to vaccinate the unwilling in their sleep, even if the jab would need to be administered into one ear and out the other. Three days ago, PBBM went to an SM mall with his...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Da nerve, da nerve, da nerve, da nerve! Yes, repeated four times, once in behalf of each sector that was stabbed in the back by that patently illegal and treacherous order to import 300,000 metric tons of sugar, those targeted sectors being the Office of the President,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Not the top performers of the Philippine economy who posted fantastic gains in the first half of the year, Mabuhay! May your profits bring you more reasons to distribute more of the goodies and hire more employables. The top performers a la Obiena, according to a short...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Inspiration breeds aspiration leads to perspiration. So like the bamboo that sleeps, creeps, leaps! During the campaign, BBM did not so much promise to bring down the price of rice to ₱20 a kilo as to express an aspiration. The clerk who’ll never get to own a...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When it rains, it pours. With families still recovering from whatever disasters that have hit them, life’s still a touch-and-go. But let’s not label ourselves a “disaster-prone” country, for words have their power. Let the latest LPA in, we’re used to them. What...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Manila, second home of prosperous Hong Kongers? For people like the mega-billionaire Andrew Tan, who was born in China but raised in Hong Kong, something about Manila must’ve exuded the sweet smell of success. For, at age 16, or so the story goes, and having decided...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza In 1990, when the earthquake struck at magnitude 7.7 on July 16, friends asked one another, “Where were you when it happened?” This time around, July 27, 2022, with the earth shaking at magnitude 7, the question of the day was, “How old were you in 1990?”...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza With a new government under a new president, and the past staying in the past, it’s a useful exercise nonetheless to glance back and see how far we’ve come since the last two-and-a-half years. (I for one cannot imagine what those early Covid-19 times would’ve been...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza While all other experts, including those in the Department of Finance, agree that the economy will grow by 6 to 6.5 percent, Henry Lim Bon Liong, “hybrid rice king” and president of the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry Inc., is standing...
