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 On one of my rare visits to the supermarket, a display of garbage bags – not in black – attracted my attention. They stood out because they were packaged in sunny colors and labeled as pleasant-smelling garbage bags, thanks to the added value of fruit and flower...
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...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza This time it’s fear that’s fueling the surges. Fear is good if it keeps parents from taking their tykes out for a walk in the park along with 20,000 other people. Fear is good if it pulls us back from going out for the sake of going out. Fear is good if it keeps us...
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 A memorable experience was what I packed into my 2021 valise of moments to keep, maybe not for keeps but at least for the first few months into the new year. A pandemic year deserves a pandemic adventure. Sandy told Penny, and Penny told me, that the good people of Pasig...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza In her 2021 book, The Madness of Crowds, the novelist Louise Penny writes: “What’s a year? Why do we need a new year? Is the old one broken?” Not all memories are good, but the following list shows that as in using a stairway, there’s always an upstairs and a...
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 Gifts unwrapped. Boxes torn open (why the day after Christmas is also known as boxing day in Western countries, when presents bought in a store are allowed to be returned or exchanged for another size, style, or color). Some children looking disappointed. There’s always...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For the first time in two years of lockdown I dared set foot in a flashy hotel-casino-resort and not feel guilty about it (without an escort). To reach the restaurant where I was to meet friends, I was advised by a tallish usherette to walk through the casino, straight...
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...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza The 99.9 percent solution applies to commonly used household products, everything from bath soap, detergent, disinfectant, toilet bowl cleaner, even shampoo, everything that requires cleaning and cleansing, getting rid of germs, or so the TV commercials say. As the...
