MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza This time it’s fear that’s fueling the surges. Fear is good if it keeps parents from taking their tykes out for a walk in the park along with 20,000 other people. Fear is good if it pulls us back from going out for the sake of going out. Fear is good if it keeps us...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza In her 2021 book, The Madness of Crowds, the novelist Louise Penny writes: “What’s a year? Why do we need a new year? Is the old one broken?” Not all memories are good, but the following list shows that as in using a stairway, there’s always an upstairs and a...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Gifts unwrapped. Boxes torn open (why the day after Christmas is also known as boxing day in Western countries, when presents bought in a store are allowed to be returned or exchanged for another size, style, or color). Some children looking disappointed. There’s always...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For the first time in two years of lockdown I dared set foot in a flashy hotel-casino-resort and not feel guilty about it (without an escort). To reach the restaurant where I was to meet friends, I was advised by a tallish usherette to walk through the casino, straight...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza The 99.9 percent solution applies to commonly used household products, everything from bath soap, detergent, disinfectant, toilet bowl cleaner, even shampoo, everything that requires cleaning and cleansing, getting rid of germs, or so the TV commercials say. As the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Why is the camp of Bongbong Marcos not replying to accusations that he has not paid his taxes, not filed his income tax returns? “Why should we do their work for them?” said a source in BBM’s inner circle. “They make accusations that cannot stick and they’re too...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Is Yorme’s movie showing? How many voters can afford a P350 ticket? Fans of Isko Moreno, presidential candidate, can’t find the so-called biopic in the mall screenings despite press releases quoting his director’s announcement of a Dec. 1 playdate for “Yorme: The...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza As James Bond says, “No time to die.” We’re all aging uniformly with each tick of the clock, at the same pace, the same rate, though in different ways. This is not the time to let our guard down. We’re losing more than 100 COVID-19 patients a day and the numbers...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza What would you do if you were found by a contact tracer and told to report to the local epidemiology and surveillance unit because you’re suspected of having been exposed to a COVID-positive person? A panic attack might have ensued for Greg had he not stopped to think...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza All in one day, presidential candidates Lacson, Marcos, and Pacquiao talked about, tested for, showed off the results – negative – of their drug tests. But for Senator Ping Lacson, displaying a bottle containing his urine, eww, could not have been as memorable as...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Wearing an immaculate white T-shirt with the Polo emblem of Ralph Lauren, President Duterte held a conversation with a vlogger which was aired by the state-run TV channel last Sunday. It was low-key and Mr. Duterte came across as pensive but willing to bare his soul. I...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Will she or won’t she? After scoffing at the intramurals in her father’s political party as a sitcom, it was Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte’s turn to author her own mystery-thriller cliffhanger. Political analysts came out of the woodwork guessing what was the...
