MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Pork is in short supply, too expensive. Eat veggies instead? Some of them are worth their weight in gold. Eat fish? Only the rich can afford the poor man’s fish, galunggong. Now, the poor are also complaining that sardine prices could go up soon, with manufacturers...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza GCQ to MGCQ soon. Almost back to normal. Abnormal has become routine. As that durable cliché goes, change is the only permanence. “I felt trapped.” With those words, 1986 People Power photographer Mandy Navasero made up her mind to live a double life – continue...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza In the season of pandemic, food is a shining star, whether as alimentary consumption or an elemental business. Amateur cooks and start-up chefs found their true second nature as restaurateurs, caterers, and overnight, Richard Gomez is on YouTube cooking, At Home with...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza This is the in-between day. Between Chinese New Year’s Day yesterday and Valentine’s Day tomorrow; both love days, the one for loving yourself and the one for loving another or others. So how subdued did the CNY celebration go? An old friend, retired these many years...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza That was lotsa fun watching and listening to Senator Dick “Red Cross” Gordon blow his top and challenging the guys on top of the red tape parade at LTO to resign! The only letdown was not being able to imagine the response. Resign? Remember PhilHealth, Dick? You might...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza But for a case of perfect timing, I would have missed the last few (of 24) episodes of the Korean version of War and Peace, a colossal production about Korea’s war against Japanese invaders in the early 1900’s. Unlike most K-drama couch potatoes, I didn’t have the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Baguio City, a hot topic. Mayor Magalong, aka contact tracing “czar,” tarred, tainted by the city’s scandal of the season, at party where pictures were shot, advertently or inadvertently, of the merrymakers making merry sans masks. “Sapagka’t kami ay tao...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Nineteen days after the Quiapo phenomenon of more than 200,000 devotees turning out en masse to honor the Black Nazarene, we have yet to hear if superspreaders added to the transmission of COVID-19 cases in the NCR. Or if it’s simply a case of no news is good news. The...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza “. . . for the world in its present form is passing away.” From a letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (said to be a sinful people), read in church last Sunday. Whether those words, written a little less than 2,000 years ago, stopped you in your tracks or did not,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It was perfect whether-weather – whether sunny, whether rainy, whether cloudy. We got all three on a pretty day two hours out of Metro Manila. Just as the sun began to set and soften the curves of rolling hills, there was no whether-ing about where to eat. After all,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Baguio weather in Silang, said to be “Cavite’s biggest town.” Who wouldn’t accept the invitation? Baguio takes four to five hours, Silang two. With the RFID pass still to be tested and the promise of Baguio weather yet to be verified, the call of the weekend...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine. That’s all people can talk about. The what (brands), where (to get it), how (logistics, distribution), why not (choice of brand), and when. Starting February (let’s hope not Feb. 29) you get Sinovac, but wait for July to choose your vax. The...
