Jullie Y. Daza MEDIUM RARE Alex Lacson has produced a novel with a powerful title and an oft-repeated, unteachable lesson. The title is Five Hundred Years without Love (faint echoes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Autumn of the Patriarch?). The lessons are just as...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When my friend sent her brother to Bulacan to buy some garden soil, neither she nor he was prepared for the volume of cars going in and out and parked in the nearest vacant lot. When Carl Balita, entrepreneur and entrepreneurial coach, advised his viewers to think of...
Jullie Y. Daza MEDIUM RARE Dr. Manuel Dayrit’s commandments to stay clear of the coronavirus stop at No. 7. The eighth commandment: Thou shall take virgin coconut oil (VCO) daily to strengthen your immune system. Dr. Dayrit, a former Health secretary, is the godfather of VCO. For decades, he has...
Jullie Y. Daza MEDIUM RARE There was a time in my younger days when my boss complained, more to himself than to me, that I was “unmanageable”; I wore the brand like a badge of honor. From that perspective and reading and watching the news today, what I see is how ungovernable we are as a bunch...
Jullie Y. Daza MEDIUM RARE Two men who do not know each other, presumably. American Marine Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton, here on R ‘n R in 2014, convicted of killing a Filipina transgender, was freed by virtue of a full and absolute presidential pardon. Bienvenido Espino, a Filipino working in...
Jullie Y. Daza MEDIUM RARE Love and sex in the time of coronavirus. How safe should it be? With STAY HOME and STAY SAFE as the salutations of the times, loverly couples are getting married nonetheless and blissfully enjoying their imaginably planned honeymoons. As predicted, unexpected pregnancies...
Jullie Y. Daza MEDIUM RARE Born into the business, it was her destiny to grow, develop, and prosper it in all capacities but one, that of movie star. Yet she was a star in her own right, fighting behind the scenes and the cameras to give Tinsel Town Philippines a glossy new shine. “Manay Ichu”...
Jullie Y. Daza MEDIUM RARE Calm down, everybody. Not only does MTRCB not have the ability to “regulate” Netflix, it doesn’t have the technology. (If it had, could it share its chops with DepEd, with teachers and students who are struggling to cast the other net first, Internet?) The movie and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Joseph Pemberton is free to go after he was ordered released from his airconditioned cell. Our nurses who have been accepted for employment abroad want to go but cannot because of a ban owing to the pandemic. They should apply for a GCTA pass with the Olongapo regional...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza Like a series of wakes it was, the ABS-CBN employees’ sign-off. Their network pulled the plug on Aug. 31 after its application for a franchise was trashed by 70 out of 310 congressmen. Ted Failon has left, so have Anthony Taberna and Gerry Baja. Next, the provincial TV...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When the numbers are so massive they numb (as in number?) the mind, how does one read the story behind the figures? Luckily for us, there are numerate people like ABS-CBN’s Edson Guido, chief of data analytics. The world is divided according to numerate persons who...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza My daughter has been threatening to put up her Christmas tree on time for the first day of the ‘ber months. The best way to explain this to foreigners is to say that our Christmas starts on the first of September and ends on the sixth of January. Even Jose Mari Chan is...
