MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza That’s the Vice President talking, and she was addressing the police and warning criminal elements and terrorists. You don’t have to belong to a terrorist organization to be feared as a terrorist. Any person, man or woman, armed with a gun – yes, that includes cops...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Mahatma Gandhi said it, later adopted for business by Tiffany’s and De Beers. The best things come in small packages, indeed. "Build, Build, Build" was a monumental success for the Duterte administration. The present dispensation under President Marcos is now asking for...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Prices of everything from fuel to fish, eggs to chicken going up. The list of shortages grows longer. Guess what’s coming down? If you believe the cops, crime has gone down by 36 percent. This despite the daily reports of brutal assaults against girls, women, and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It’s official. DTI tells one and all, start buying your noche buena goodies and ingredients now, today, before prices spring up in the last quarter leading to December. The advice – granting that it will be heeded by and affordable to millions of those most impacted...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Every blessed year, the recitation of so-called challenges faced by teachers, parents, and students is what marks the first day of school; it’s a ritual, really. After generations of teaching and learning, the faster those problems age the more unchanging they remain,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Away we go from crowded NCR to a few beautiful places, no passport required. Once again Boracay has been picked as one of the most beautiful spots on earth. What the international media haven’t mentioned about Boracay is how romantic it looks in the rain, a gentle soft...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza In six succinct words, PBBM encapsulated the state of our mobility: “Balik eskwela “Balik trabaho “Balik negosyo” If I may add two more, Sir: “Balik trapik.” Not that MMDA’s “expanded” number coding is anything new or original – the EDSA...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza The last time I saw FVR he was in casual clothes coming out of the Grand Hyatt hotel in BGC. In the next instant, he was wriggling himself, body and beret and soul, into the passenger window of his SUV. The contortionist’s act caught everyone by surprise as they stood...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza No offense to vampires and Red Cross, but fresh blood is what the man wants. In the middle of his SONA last Monday, President BBM, sounding like his alter ego, the DA secretary, said “fresh blood in the agriculture sector” is needed, such as scientific farming and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. During the dry summer months, water interruptions in several parts of Metro Manila were as regular as the sun rising in the east. During the monsoon season, with clouds and rainfall tempering the weather, we’re...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Who’s afraid of the Kindergarten-to Grade 12 program? There’s plenty to unlike if your teachers put you in constant agony instead of leading you to discover the joy of learning, or if your parents want you out of there quick and holding down a job. Yes, 46 percent of...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza After 54 years as a culinary landmark – Quezon City’s steak house – Alfredo’s will soon be removed from its site on Tomas Morato Ave. The two-storey structure designed around pine logs will be replaced as a high-rise condo, the way to go as developers have been...
