MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza He was Italian, but the voyage he embarked on with a Portuguese-born explorer who owed his fealty to Spain would make him world-famous. But as diarist, chronicler, map-maker, linguist, and amanuensis of Ferdinand Magellan, Pigafetta made this part of the world famous,...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza If you cannot think out of the box because it’s too small and crammed, you might as well think of the backyard with extra space plus sunshine and shade, maybe even a whiff of fresh air. Or something like that anyway. Red Cross Chairman and Sen. Dick Gordon must’ve...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Physical and social distancing, it’s the law! So we make people, mostly women, line up for one and a half kilometers to claim their ayuda . Being in dire straits, we can only give P4,000 maximum per family and expect them to live on that for one to two weeks. To...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza That’s how many mostly mild and asymptomatic COVID-19 patients were tagged as “recovered” last Sunday. Reasons enough to cheer – but what do the numbers mean? ABS-CBN’s latest superstar, Edson Guido, head of data analytics, explains it this way: “What DOH is...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza Sunny is going the extra mile. Her house looks like a showroom for anti-COVID gadgets and equipment. The air is misted by a disinfectant, besides which purifiers and ionizers are on the job at all hours. Everyone at home – all eight adults – is mandated to wear masks...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Unflappable. Nothing could excite him (except perhaps a parade of whole-pig lechons). Nothing surprised him. He had seen it all, been there, done that, commented on every topic on or under the radar. As a newspaper editor Jun Icban was not the picture of a man in a...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza Except in exceptionally affluent neighborhoods, no panic buying occurred upon the ECQ2 declaration during the Holy Week, nor after this was extended by another seven days. Well, what did you expect? No work, no pay; no pay, no shopping; ergo no panic buying, only panic....
As the couple finally admitted to getting married earlier this year, releasing their wedding video today April 4, we couldn't help but notice how everything was "pretty in pink" — down to the smallest but important details such as the wedding rings. View this post on Instagram Upon closer...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza For the first time in one year – 52 weeks – I attended a real mass in Baguio last month, at St. Joseph Pacdal parish church in Baguio City. (Sheepishly, I confess that the day before, I had my first full-body massage, also in the Pines City, after 54 weeks. After all,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Mask-Iwas-Hugas-Vax . How my “drama queen” classmate describes her state of mind and body the night before she was told she would, as a senior citizen, get her jab of AstraZeneca vaccine: “My whole body trembled like it was Taal volcano! I lost sleep, I wanted to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza One week under the strictest category of community quarantines. Coinciding with the Christian world’s somber observance of Holy Week ending in the glory of Easter Sunday on April 4. You cannot say there’s no separation of Church and State, not after all the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For someone who has told his party that it’s premature to talk about 2022 politics, Senator Manny Pacquiao did little to rebut retired Justice Antonio Carpio’s opinion of the sports icon as “lacking the competence to be president” based on his record as a champion...
