MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Let’s not fly off the handle and blame “pilot error” for the crash of the C-130 military transport aircraft that killed 50 soldiers and injured scores of others, including three civilians who were on the ground, on the path of the plane when it fell from the sky. As...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Midnight when we arrived in Tagaytay to experience what we supposed would be the best and worst of Taal Volcano in action. With my biggest burliest buddies Leon and Joselito and their American friend Piggy (more a teddy bear, really), I bundled up my year-old baby and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza As they say, accidents happen in threes. First, a nurse was caught pricking the arm of a so-called vaccinee with air and no vaccine in a vaccination site in Makati. Then Senate President Tito Sotto said his son, QC Vice Mayor Gian Sotto, had told him about people talking...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza There I was, telling everyone with time and ears to listen how my vaccination was so efficiently done, painless, and negative for adverse reactions. When all that time I had no idea how perfectly possible it would’ve been to be “inoculated” without any drug going...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza A few things the then president, PNoy, told me face to face, not from the long lens of current events becoming history, but from the short distance of a casual conversation: 1. “What are you doing there?” I was taking pictures of his leather slippers,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A proliferation of candidates for vice president in 2022. And not a single brave soul other than Antonio Trillanes IV proclaiming his readiness for the presidency (though also for VP). A political analyst says it’s the smart thing to do, for a probable candidate not to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When it rains, it pours. Then it floods, an ocean of problems. Babies are being born smaller, many of them to girls hardly out of puberty. The IQ of Filipino teenagers has been dropping, until it hit rock bottom in a survey of 600,000 15-year-olds from 79 countries. God...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza On Independence weekend, no less. Time to snap the chains and proclaim liberation from the illegal imposition of indefinite prison terms on persons whose only crime is their age. The sky was blue, alternating with clouds of medium and opaque thicknesses, the simplicity of...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It’s six months to Christmas 2021! Mike L, who reads three newspapers over breakfast every morning, complains, “All I see are headlines and stories about COVID, COVID, COVID!” For Mike’s sake and other readers who need a breath of fresh air, here are three short...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Robredo/Trillanes/Poe/Villanueva/Diokno/Santos-Recto. No Pacquiao. A let-down! 1Sambayan’s list of nominees for the presidential and senatorial elections next year is, to put it kindly, totally unexciting. Pacman, the most famous Filipino in the world, hurt by his...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Until the pandemic came along, who knew how a great many of us suffered from one type or another of allergies? The most asked question being “Have you been vaccinated?” followed by the second most asked, “What brand?”, it stands to reason that the next question...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza Senator Cynthia Villar says it’s “unfair” to keep senior citizens locked up in their homes even after they’ve had their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. What’s the vaccination for if not for their protection outside the four walls of their home? The good...
