MEDIUM RARE Some lucky people are planning an extended vacation in Baguio as the temperature is expected to drop further from the 11.4 C recorded last Saturday. The cool climate is for everyone, but sooner than later, the city will no longer be able to accommodate everyone unless they go up by foot...
MEDIUM RARE A year of widows, 2019, as I’ve noted. Now I should add that two female colleagues didn’t make it to the feast of the Three Kings yesterday. Sylvia Mayuga wrote “30” on the last day of 2019. Ninez Cacho Olivares’ last column in the Daily Tribune was dated Jan. 3, 2020, the...
MEDIUM RARE If you believe your wise old grannies and elderly aunts, the saying is that any year that ends in 9 is bound to be associated with events sad or bad. Last year, crowned by an annular solar eclipse, was not one to end on a note of collectively gladsome memories. On a mountain of natural...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Before NLEX, SCTEX, TPLEX and all those time-saving expressways, the trip to Baguio for us kids of the last century was four to five hours long. Today, with all the infrastructures and RFID, it’s still four to five hours, if you’re lucky. Time-saving expressways?...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza What kind of policemen do we have who need to be told, over and over again, reminded from here to eternity, that they are not allowed to accept gifts or bribes, not to take what is not theirs? Do they have to be told to wear their uniform with spiff and pride? Those...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Gender equality demands that girls be acknowledged as bullies, too. Their bullying can be just as cruel, in the form of verbal-psychological abuse. I’ve seen girls bullying girls and heard stories of such incidents happening in “exclusive” schools where the rule is...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It was a news cycle that ran for eight days until the pint-size bully who kicked and walloped a taller classmate was summarily dismissed from school. By then, the bully-vs-bullied story – the bully was the smaller, shorter guy – was primed to be kicked out of the...
