MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza That’s how the twin senators in their look-alike outfits tailored for the rugged life of the campaign will package the work. An active, dynamic partnership. Counseling, consulting each other. Council of 2, cabinet, bureaucracy. Sen. Panfilo Lacson, presidential...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When LPA meets Malakas, destructive floods occur in places in the Visayas and Mindanao while Metro Manilans pray for rain. Rain is as utilitarian as it is romantic, but what a waste, when all that precious precipitation just goes down the drain. And yet, and yet, at...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Late in the last century, Sebastian Chua made a drastic business decision. He shut down what was at one time Asia’s largest paper factory. He didn’t explain the reasons, not to me anyway (his presses printed the countless editions of my book about mistresses), but it...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Do you believe in surveys? The bad news for lots of people of a certain persuasion is that the five leading pollsters – SWS, Pulse Asia, OCTA, Publicus, Laylo – have “harmony” (quoting one of their researchers) in that their results are agreeably and arguably the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Weeks and weeks before President Duterte turned 77 and months before he will step down, the Presidential Communications Operations Office was already busy releasing tons of information on “The Duterte Legacy” in print, on air, and throughout the width and breadth of...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza There’s a new man at MMDA and he’s about to take your breath away (if not your car). Chairman Don Artes has two options added to the current EDSA protocol. One of them would keep private cars off EDSA two days of the week. The other invokes “daylight-saving time,”...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Not unexpectedly, the government TV channel has been running a series of news features on the Duterte legacy, including his signature war on drugs. On his birthday, the President was congratulated by his executive team – cabinet secretaries – for having fulfilled his...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza You have two days left to greet us a Happy Women’s Month and let us choose, be a happy woman or have a happy month? Happiness is a moment, a condition or an attitude; like love, hard to define. But if a country (or nation) may be considered a family, as in the UN...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza What happened to Ping Lacson should not have happened, should not happen to anyone. This is politics as usual. This is politics. He put it this way: “It is the art of self-contradiction where strange bedfellows can sleep soundly together.” Presidential candidate...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Water, water, water! The heat is on. Rain, rain, come this way and stay any day. Only God can make a raindrop, but if man can mix two parts hydrogen with one part oxygen and produce water (H20), can he make an ocean? And even if God causes the rain to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza ABS-CBN news anchor Bernadette Sembrano’s throw-away line during her extro, “I’m not going back to my old life!” was said with such glee and gusto, it made my day! She did not elaborate, but everyone who heard her knew what she meant. There’s merit in staying...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Having run out of new books to read, I picked through dusty shelves for something to rediscover. And there it was, a slender little book in sunset shades of orange and gold. During a black period of deadly assassinations, character assassination, attention-calling crimes,...
