MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Because he speaks the language of the people (in a shade shy of PRRD’s colorful street talk and hilarious hyperboles), it’s easy to see where presidential candidate Manny Pacquiao is coming from and where he wants to go. The day after the faded commemoration of people...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Where in the world can you find a president of his country who’s willing to kneel and beg the vaccine-resistant to take a shot, otherwise he’d inject them in one ear and let it go out the other ear? Hilarious! Complete with hand gestures and a straight face, Mr....
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Yes, he did, the magic words that I’ve been waiting to hear throughout the campaign and for the longest time, years and years since the last century. In Pursuit of Excellence is the title of a book written by Terry Orlick, a sports psychologist, in 1980. In real life...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It’s hard not to find a Manny Pacquiao interview interesting, whatever point of the compass you may be at. He doesn’t use big words and frankly, he looks too nervous to be telling a lie. His artless style sounds appealing, coming from the man of the masses that he is....
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza The first day of the calendar year arrived on Jan. 1. Came Jan. 9, the first of many Sundays in what the Church calls “ordinary time.” Today, Feb. 1, is the first day of the Lunar New Year. Fr. Francis Alvarez, SJ, puts it succinctly: “So many starts.” Going by...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza After the noise and buzz over BBM’s nonappearance on a TV show, the flak was quickly followed by a fluke. On TV 5’s Frontline newscast immediately after that no-show on GMA 7, netizens polled for their reactions to the day’s most newsy event (or nonevent) showed an...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Take it from the experts. Those seat warmers in MWSS predict a water shortage in summer, two months from now. They’re paid to say that? Just by asking the weather bureau how much rainfall to expect or not to expect? After all the rain dropped by Odette – typhoon...
Anyone who knows Portia knows her as the pink lady who cannot live without pink P FOR PORTIA Portia Leuterio, the lady who thinks pink, drinks pink, dreams in pink; and the table is set, almost, for P (as in Portia) and her guests. Portia Leuterio teaches ladies and their daughters and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Christmas ends on the 12th day, two days from now, with the Feast of the Three Kings. Looking back, it was the second half of December that put us in the merry mélange of a near normal season of anticipated joys, gift-giving, family bonding and hopefulness. Now look...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Word of the year 2021, according to Oxford Dictionary, was “vax” – not “vaccine,” just vax. Vaccine is an old word whereas vax is a pandemic-2020 invention, shorter to pronounce and spell, especially for headline writers. Word of the month of December 2021 based...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Christmas, wrote Alexander Smith, “is the day that holds all time together.” Poetry? Theology? Psychology? What would the world – humanity-- be without Christmas? Still, there are those who do not believe in the story of the First Christmas or who prefer to forget...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Who cannot be impressed by the size of adoring crowds that adorn every political event where the rule is the more the merrier? It’s Christmas, the season of joy. It’s also a time of extreme climates – a super typhoon just the icing on the cake after heavy rains...
