MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza In the olden golden days the expectation was for Christmas to cast its spell, a spell being an action that alters the dimensions of time-space-matter. Christmas, it is said, is the day that holds time together. The ghosts of Christmases past linger, touching the present...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Nida left her house in Marikina at 7 a.m. for work in Intramuros, Manila, boarding her faithful motorcycle and hoping for a smooth, quick ride. She reached her destination two hours later. “To think I was on a bike!” she exclaimed in exasperation. What if she had been...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Undoubtedly THE cultural event of the year, the staging of Puccini’s great opera, Turandot, a lavish production that raises the bar and audience expectations from now on. For the 700 pupils that VP and Education Secretary Sara Duterte brought with her to the dress...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Climate change, climate change. The bad news is there’s nothing we can do to stop it or reverse its irreversible course. How many centuries to create another glacier to replace one that’s melting away? How many magicians to build a mountain and cover it with trees,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Judging by the crowds that packed the malls last Wednesday, a national holiday – or was it bonus day? – the people can’t wait for Dec. 24 to arrive soon enough. Before we know it, it will be Dec. 31, the end of the year, the last page on the calendar on the wall;...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza First chance I got close enough to chat with the 6’ 4”-tall San Juan Mayor Francis Zamora without standing on a chair, I asked, “How tall is Mrs. Zamora?” “Five-six,” he replied. “And my mom is five-eight.” Mayor Zamora has a new reason to be someone to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza First of all, there are five different meanings of market, but for our purposes market refers to “palengke” in the vernacular, that is, a place to buy goods and stuff, or merchandise of a particular type such as meat, fish, vegetables. Trade Secretary Fred Pascual...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A colleague used to call it a “pay day economy” because no one pulled out bills from their wallet until the day after the 15th and 30th of the month to pay for rent, food, utilities and other obligations. They couldn’t plan on going on a movie date or to the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Thinking of climbing up to the only fully airconditioned city in the Philippines? Do it now! Don’t wait for December, not for the New Year! Getting more crowded by the day, by the weekend, it is. The climate is almost Christmas-like, temperatures at minimum 16 to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Once upon a time, a high-profile VIP was at her wits’ end wondering where she could tour her high-profile VVIP visitors from abroad. These were worldly, sophisticated travelers who flew from Paris to Prague at the drop of a coin, so the mission was to show them how the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A study in contrasts is a study in presidential styles. PRRD threatened to go house to house to vaccinate the unwilling in their sleep, even if the jab would need to be administered into one ear and out the other. Three days ago, PBBM went to an SM mall with his...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Da nerve, da nerve, da nerve, da nerve! Yes, repeated four times, once in behalf of each sector that was stabbed in the back by that patently illegal and treacherous order to import 300,000 metric tons of sugar, those targeted sectors being the Office of the President,...
