MEDIUM RARE The universe has a message for golden boy Carlos Yulo: “Soar, Caloy!” Those two words are spelled with letters found in Caloy’s name. According to the ancient art of anagram, every person’s name, whether they know it or not, contains a secret or secrets pertinent to their life....
MEDIUM RARE Thank God there’s a Friday every week. Last week it was Friday the ninth of August, and it turned out to be a fun night for the three of us. There was a fourth person, but he was not present though he might as well have been, for the number of times his name was mentioned. ...
MEDIUM RARE By his own count, it’s been 33 years since we stopped Leo from returning to Taipei, his home base – but not his home – because we could not imagine anyone else cutting and styling hair (like a barber whose services become something of a lifelong attachment as far as their clients...
MEDIUM RARE The story goes that heaven’s deities would release once a year the malicious, malignant spirits who have been trapped on earth for their misdeeds. [Meanwhile, there’s word – no written memo, no official notice – that applicants for a driving license who happen to carry a...
MEDIUM RARE Hip hip hooray, six cheers, or three cheers for each of the two gold medals won by Carlos Yulo in the Paris Olympics 2024, a two-day haul that stunned us and put a shine to the red-white-blue-and-gold of the Philippines’ participation. Caloy is worth more than his weight in...
MEDIUM RARE Minus the light from two shining stars, the sky is darker now. “Mother” Lily Monteverde, a name as colorful as some of her movies, and Henry Lim Bon Liong, the “father” of hybrid rice whose planting techniques enabled an initial batch of 100 farmers to become...
MEDIUM RARE It pays – in peso and centavo terms – to know how much you can eat and how little you may waste of the food on your plate. As the only Daza who cannot and does not cook, who’s not even a fullfledged foodie, it was nice to discover, under the guidance of a food tripper who...
MEDIUM RARE Between Tessie Sy Coson and Robina Gokongwei Pe, you’ve got practically the A to Z of the retail, banking, real estate, food and other industries: SM under TSC and Robinsons under Robina. Tessie is chairman of Banco de Oro and vice chairman of SM Investments Corp. Robina was...
MEDIUM RARE How do you reduce the President’s SONA (state of the nation address) – from 90 minutes to a summary of bite-size facts, figures? Thanks to the bad weather that kept most of us home, I made it my homework to make that summary, if not for others, then for myself. Every SONA is...
MEDIUM RARE As if the strong winds (the Chinese word for typhoon is “big wind”) were not enough, the rain was intermittent yet persistent, plus it was high tide in Malabon, and then a barge contributed an oil spill to complicate the picture. Floods shallow and deep came along, floods on...
MEDIUM RARE President BBM’s announcement of a total ban on POGO (Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators) as a highlight of his state of the nation address brought back a wave of memories of how gaming/gambling was born in Manila as a shipboard amusement during his father and namesake’s...
MEDIUM RARE Nedy R. Tantoco would have celebrated her 78 th birthday last Saturday, July 20, which was the date chosen by her son, Anton Huang, for a memorial concert at the chic and totally charming Ignacio Gimenez Theater at the CCP complex. Nedy’s friends, admirers and the...
