MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza And feet on the ground. Two women made the news this week and they’re heaven-and-earth apart in their orientations. Dr. Ma. Rosario Vergeire, named to head DOH as officer in charge, who has been a constant presence five, six days a week for the last two years on our...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza On our way to The Manila Hotel in her almost-new Beamer, I asked Lolita’s driver to show me the Binondo-Intramuros bridge designed and built as a friendship project of the People’s Republic of China. Snaking through a labyrinth of narrow streets and alleys, we were...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It was the shot heard around the world. Right on cue Anderson Cooper compared America’s so-called “gunslinging” culture with Japan’s strict gun control laws, a fact that did not help former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe escape an assassin’s bullet during a campaign...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza PBBM has 110 million reasons to fuel his confidence in a nation united and working together. At The Manila Hotel last Monday, the celebration was all about looking forward to another 110 years of peace, prosperity, happy moments to collect as elegant memories and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza And he’s off and running! “Your dreams are mine.” In English, once, and Filipino, four times. What is the dream? “The changes we seek will offend no one,” just as “I did not offend any one of my rivals during the campaign. I saw little incompatibility with my...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza There’s a 90 percent chance of rain today. Will PBBM and his 1,250 guests experience a rehash of the legendary “Marcos weather” at his inauguration? Will the sun come out shining instead? Whatever the weather, the forecast should read something like this, “A day...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Like him or hate him, respect him or despise him, admire him or condemn him, he could no more avoid us than we could him. It’s a safe bet to say Rodrigo Roa Duterte was the most colorful, most loud-mouthed, most foul-mouthed, hardworking-est chief executive with the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza His people describe him as “unconventional,” a “radical.” If he doesn’t mind my saying so, he’s an iconoclast, “one who attacks traditional ideas or institutions; one who destroys sacred images.” This is one tough guy who caused another toughie, his chief...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza In 24 hours or so our new Vice President will have been sworn in. And still no news about where she will hold office and where her new home is likely to be. Born May 31, 1978 Sara Duterte Carpio is a Gemini, sign of the Twins. Going by astrological profiles, she has two...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza The good news is that traffic on EDSA has been reduced by six percent or 25,000 vehicles. The bad news is that traffic on EDSA has been reduced by six percent or 25,000 vehicles. Either way, MMDA is closer to its wish to remove 40 percent of vehicles from EDSA, going by...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Millions of us are said to be in search of a job. Searching, however, is working, so how hard the searchers are willing to search and find is up to them. The other side of the coin is that there aren’t enough jobs to go around. Both private and public sectors...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Do you hear the hooves of the Horses as they approach? War in Ukraine, invasion by Russia. Famine, or in the words of the UN, a food crisis that could lead to a global shortage next year. Pestilence – Covid, dengue, monkeypox, HIV-AIDS, ASF, bird flu. Conquest – think...
