MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Starting December, the Japanese government will cut household electricity bills by 20 percent to fight inflation. How envious could we get, we who are second only to Japan in the cost of electricity! Green up to the gills? We could also seek a reaction from the new DOE...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza How hard is it to make a choice between wearing a mask and not wearing one? Having been herded like docile little lambs every which way by IATF and NTF for two years, following their every do and don’t like they were god-like cult leaders, when the time came to decide...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Once upon a time, a high-profile VIP was at her wits’ end wondering where she could tour her high-profile VVIP visitors from abroad. These were worldly, sophisticated travelers who flew from Paris to Prague at the drop of a coin, so the mission was to show them how the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A study in contrasts is a study in presidential styles. PRRD threatened to go house to house to vaccinate the unwilling in their sleep, even if the jab would need to be administered into one ear and out the other. Three days ago, PBBM went to an SM mall with his...
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 Da nerve, da nerve, da nerve, da nerve! Yes, repeated four times, once in behalf of each sector that was stabbed in the back by that patently illegal and treacherous order to import 300,000 metric tons of sugar, those targeted sectors being the Office of the President,...
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 Not the top performers of the Philippine economy who posted fantastic gains in the first half of the year, Mabuhay! May your profits bring you more reasons to distribute more of the goodies and hire more employables. The top performers a la Obiena, according to a short...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Inspiration breeds aspiration leads to perspiration. So like the bamboo that sleeps, creeps, leaps! During the campaign, BBM did not so much promise to bring down the price of rice to ₱20 a kilo as to express an aspiration. The clerk who’ll never get to own a...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When it rains, it pours. With families still recovering from whatever disasters that have hit them, life’s still a touch-and-go. But let’s not label ourselves a “disaster-prone” country, for words have their power. Let the latest LPA in, we’re used to them. What...
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 Manila, second home of prosperous Hong Kongers? For people like the mega-billionaire Andrew Tan, who was born in China but raised in Hong Kong, something about Manila must’ve exuded the sweet smell of success. For, at age 16, or so the story goes, and having decided...
