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...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza In 1990, when the earthquake struck at magnitude 7.7 on July 16, friends asked one another, “Where were you when it happened?” This time around, July 27, 2022, with the earth shaking at magnitude 7, the question of the day was, “How old were you in 1990?”...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza No offense to vampires and Red Cross, but fresh blood is what the man wants. In the middle of his SONA last Monday, President BBM, sounding like his alter ego, the DA secretary, said “fresh blood in the agriculture sector” is needed, such as scientific farming and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza With a new government under a new president, and the past staying in the past, it’s a useful exercise nonetheless to glance back and see how far we’ve come since the last two-and-a-half years. (I for one cannot imagine what those early Covid-19 times would’ve been...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. During the dry summer months, water interruptions in several parts of Metro Manila were as regular as the sun rising in the east. During the monsoon season, with clouds and rainfall tempering the weather, we’re...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Who’s afraid of the Kindergarten-to Grade 12 program? There’s plenty to unlike if your teachers put you in constant agony instead of leading you to discover the joy of learning, or if your parents want you out of there quick and holding down a job. Yes, 46 percent of...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza While all other experts, including those in the Department of Finance, agree that the economy will grow by 6 to 6.5 percent, Henry Lim Bon Liong, “hybrid rice king” and president of the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry Inc., is standing...
