MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza This guy PBBM is fearless. In the words of farmer-Rep. Argel Cabatbat, “like a general going to battle” instead of calling the shots from a faraway armchair. Brilliant move! – former DA secretary Manny Piñol Excellent decision! – outgoing Senate President Tito...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A triple celebration, Rizal Day, Father’s Day, the day of Sara Duterte’s oath-taking as vice president of the Philippines. All eyes were on Sara, standing beside her mother and her father the President. The city of Davao turned out to celebrate with her, but other...
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 Mr. President, you can do it: 21 days before you step out of Malacañang, 21 days to save our fishermen, farmers, jeepney drivers, housewives, commuters, the masses from the high prices of fuel that have all but taken the joy out of work. Caught between the excise tax...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Have you noticed, asked Danilo, how old fogeys like us don’t go out at night anymore? A matter of age, then, that oldies don’t put themselves in the mood to leave the house after a long day of lolling around in their loosest, most comfy clothes, doing nothing or...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Education, as parents and teachers and the incoming government see it, is the biggest challenge facing the youth of the fatherland. It must be a matter of grave concern to us all, alumni or not, that UP has slid from its 2021 ranking of No. 84 to 129 in a recent survey of...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza With 14 nominees named to head his executive team (as of this writing), the incoming President has 18 more positions to fill for a total of 32. Among the most sensitive and crucial, Agriculture, Health, and Defense. What does it take to land in the cabinet? The shortest...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Purely by accident or coincidence, the two statisticians who guided us through the helter-skelter madness of Covid-19 and the May 2022 elections share a common name. Dr. Guido David of OCTA Research, UP, and Edson Guido of ABS-CBN data analytics. Edson Guido is the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Destiny. Destiny? That’s what the astrologer said. Father and son, both September-born Virgos. How Marcos Jr. looks, walks, talks, dresses like Marcos Sr. (at least when Jr.’s sporting the barong shirt-jac that FM made fashionable in the last century). Mythology....
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza The biggest voter turnout, 88 percent. Fastest vote count. By 6:30 p.m. on May 10, a total of 98 percent of votes counted, unofficially. More peaceful, with fewer election-related crimes reported than in previous exercises. The biggest margin won by a presidential...
