MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It was the first day of my friend’s retirement as a banker, after 35 years. Sol is only 55. Selfishly, I thought she deserved a thank-you from me, in the form of lunch with her at a five-star hotel. Afterwards, on our way home, she guided me on my first trip down the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Short of building a contemporary model of Noah’s Ark, listen to Jun Palafox on building homes in the post-Ondoy, post-Ulysses chapters of our history as a resilient people, but enough of that adjective -- we’re suffering from exercising too much resiliency already....
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Does it have to be a recurring nightmare? Every time it rains, tinted with yellow and red alerts, it’s no longer just another season. It’s history in the making, carrying a load of painful memories that will be repeated and passed on to the next generation. After...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Is the President mellowing? After promising us bread and circus by forcing the “pastillas” gang of bribe-takers at Immigration to eat their pastillas, PRRD had a change of heart. Still, it was quite a show, watching how a Palace usher moved among the President’s...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza This is the pause before the crunch. If I were you, I’d do my last-minute Christmas rush before December sets in. This is a good time to go malling, before the hoi polloi and elite decide they cannot postpone window-shopping, price-canvassing, shopping and gift-wrapping...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When super typhoon Rolly came bearing down and made landfall in several provinces last Sunday, Metro Manila was warned to expect signal-4 winds and rain, next only to the highest category of 5. The warning was issued just in time, alerting optimists, pessimists, and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Or should that be red my lipstick? After months of no-going-out and mask-wearing (which abhors the use of lipstick) and thanks to Angel Locsin, I remembered I had a little carousel of lipsticks in different colors. But no red. It used to be the convention that red...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza “I’m shaking the tree!” announced typhoon Rody, but unlike the real typhoon Rolly where real trees were shaken and toppled, the great wind was not contented with being one typhoon, it had to be three in a row. Quinta was not the fifth (as its name implied) but the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza With December already programmed into our waking and sleeping consciousness, it’s time to draw up a list of Christmas wishes for the naughty and the nice. One doesn’t have to be a genius to say that food will be the gift of choice come Dec. 15 and thereabouts –...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Sen. Ping Lacson on the general who can’t stop talking about two of the most beautiful Filipinas in the world, Catriona Gray and Lisa Soberano: He talks too much. The general’s superiors, the Defense Secretary and the Commander in Chief, are powerless to shut him up....
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza With their masks and face shields on, are senior citizens distinguishable as 60, 65, 70, 75 years old? Unless they’re bent and crooked, with utterly white hair and one hand holding a cane or walking stick, can security guards at mall entrances guess how old they are?...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza So it has happened. The “blended learning” system has claimed its first victim. Not of floods and landslides, not a dog or snake, not a hit-and-run or holdup. He was just doing his job – though clearly above and beyond the call of duty – delivering modules to his...
