MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza As the body count continues in Ukraine; as oil and food prices keep spiking; as temperatures inch up and the water level in Angat dam dips and the planet faces irreversible climate change, how do our candidates propose to solve that P12 trillion debt in the next six...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Just when people are more free to move around, here comes the one big reason to not move around so much. The escalating cost of fuel should keep us at home more than driving out on a whim or just because the car is parked, doing nothing. For reasons of safety from a virus...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Reunions big or small are important as a marker of time – how many months, years since the last greeting, the last meeting, the last get-together. In the last two years, we lost jobs, income, opportunities, colleagues, friends and lovers and other strangers, family...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Does Alert Level 1 read the return of bad manners in cinemas? People kicking the chair in front of them, eating popcorn cooked in rancid butter, unwrapping their green mango smothered in bagoong. People swapping movie reviews while the movie is unfolding on the screen,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Is Vladimir Putin the ferocious and aggressive tiger that the world was expecting, though in a merely metaphorical sense, upon the entry of the Year of the Tiger? Ah, but a yoga teacher who is feng shui advocate Lillian Too’s representative/ambassador in the Philippines...
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 Are we the only people celebrating a Valentine’s Month because one day is not enough to express feelings of love, romance, more love? Cecile Licad, all the way in New York, treated us in Metro Manila to a virtual “Amore” piano recital on the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When there’s nothing new, yet things are neither normal nor abnormal, what do you call it? Unusual times call for unusual deeds and styles. Look at the way the election campaign is going. The President’s administration party has been so shamefacedly misadministered...
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 News item, Feb. 16: “Showbiz celebrities Vice Ganda and Glaiza de Castro revealed they got hitched on Valentine’s Eve.” Did Vice ditch Ion in Vegas? Two years after “Crash Landing on You” became the top Korean hit in the Philippines, its stars announced last...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza At last I’ve found someone who doesn’t watch K-dramas for the simple reason that “I don’t like them, period.” For the rest of us pandemic-induced couch potatoes cooked in and hooked on Netflix, Hallyu was pretty much how we survived ECQ, MGCQ, Alert Level 3 and...
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...
