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....
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...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza No doubt, we need them. Wanted, not only for the “frontliners” and heroes that they are, but because they are just like us. They feel pain and disappointment. They work their butts off to serve their fellowmen, their own families. They are human and get tired,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza All this time, our little brains are being overwhelmed by huge numbers – daily infections, vaccine doses, violations and violators, economic devastation, etc. Bite-size stories from people at ground zero, one at a time, are more easy to chew on. For example, a medical...
Also read, Love Baguio. Before the expected mad rush to “climb up” to escape the summer heat, seek refuge in the garden air of the City of Pines. Four seasons rule the city: spring (temperatures ranging from 17 to 22C)… Holy Week… Christmas… Daydreaming time. Everyone who has been to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Everything arrives late in the Philippines. Airplanes, brides, election results, snail-mail – why not COVID vaccines? In Batangas, doctors, nurses, technicians and medical aides got their shots last Thursday night, 17 days after the first “symbolic vaccinations” of...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza The rule is to either avoid them or seek them out, they whose sworn duty is to “serve and protect.” Not a very original slogan, but as a former patrolman who became Mayor Fred Lim used to say, whatever you think of cops, whenever you need them they’re there for you....
