What’s my favorite food? Depends on my mood or what’s calling me at the moment Whenever I’m asked what my favorite food is, my immediate response would be, “depends on my mood or what’s calling me at the moment.” This week was a mix of many. My Foodprints/Casa Daza team and I went to...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “How does it feel to get older?” That was the question a number of friends and peers in the local government sector asked me a few days ago as I celebrated another birthday last week. They said they wanted to know how it felt for me to be getting closer to the...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares Many were elated by the statement made by Health Secretary Francisco Duque III last weekend. According to the Secretary, the crisis is “over”, at least as far as the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus is concerned. The Secretary based his assessment on...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares The official campaign period of elective national positions in the May 2022 elections is now nearly two-weeks old. The official campaign period for elective positions at the local level will begin in just a little over a month. Since the political pot started to...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares Is “loving” the same as “being in love”? Do we really love “from the bottom of our heart”? I have been asked these questions many times. On the eve of Valentine’s Day, let me share how I would answer them. Our first understanding of love is that it...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “Is what they are saying true? Is the worst really over?” That was the tone of the questions we got from readers and friends last week. This kind of question appears to have been fueled by certain developments last week which seemed to have brought about a...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “Who do you think emerged the winner in the interviews of presidential aspirants last week?” That was the question we got from a number of readers and friends last week. The interviews done by two of the country’s best-known television hosts were “talk of...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares A young aspiring politician approached me a few weeks ago to ask me how to “campaign”. One of his questions struck me. He asked, “What’s the best way to hit my opponent?” I asked back, “What do you mean by ‘hit’?” He explained: “How do I tell...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares The past week was definitely a “first quarter storm.” News reports confirmed our fear that we are headed for another surge, perhaps more deadly than the previous spikes in COVID-19 daily infection rates. Amid this January “storm,” an American-Filipino...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares No matter how hard life becomes, life will always get better. That appears to be one of the best lessons taught to us by our experiences in 2021. This past year, we emerged from the dark period marked by rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus in the country and the...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares Why does adversity strike at a time so close to Christmas? This must be the question in the mind of many of our countrymen, particularly those living in the provinces in Visayas and Mindanao that stood in the path of a raging Typhoon Odette. Images of destruction...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares For 10 consecutive years, I have been sharing with our readers a letter I wrote to my eldest daughter, Cassandra. I wrote a Christmas letter to my eldest daughter, Cassandra, when she was just three years old. I first shared it with our readers in this column on...
