MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza And feet on the ground. Two women made the news this week and they’re heaven-and-earth apart in their orientations. Dr. Ma. Rosario Vergeire, named to head DOH as officer in charge, who has been a constant presence five, six days a week for the last two years on our...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza On our way to The Manila Hotel in her almost-new Beamer, I asked Lolita’s driver to show me the Binondo-Intramuros bridge designed and built as a friendship project of the People’s Republic of China. Snaking through a labyrinth of narrow streets and alleys, we were...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It was the shot heard around the world. Right on cue Anderson Cooper compared America’s so-called “gunslinging” culture with Japan’s strict gun control laws, a fact that did not help former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe escape an assassin’s bullet during a campaign...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza After 54 years as a culinary landmark – Quezon City’s steak house – Alfredo’s will soon be removed from its site on Tomas Morato Ave. The two-storey structure designed around pine logs will be replaced as a high-rise condo, the way to go as developers have been...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza PBBM has 110 million reasons to fuel his confidence in a nation united and working together. At The Manila Hotel last Monday, the celebration was all about looking forward to another 110 years of peace, prosperity, happy moments to collect as elegant memories and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Until the day he left Malacañang, President Duterte never made good his promise to vaccinate, by force or by good intentions, the stubborn, pigheaded senior citizens who see no value in being protected by science from the deadly coronavirus disease. Which was more...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza And he’s off and running! “Your dreams are mine.” In English, once, and Filipino, four times. What is the dream? “The changes we seek will offend no one,” just as “I did not offend any one of my rivals during the campaign. I saw little incompatibility with my...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza There’s a 90 percent chance of rain today. Will PBBM and his 1,250 guests experience a rehash of the legendary “Marcos weather” at his inauguration? Will the sun come out shining instead? Whatever the weather, the forecast should read something like this, “A day...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Like him or hate him, respect him or despise him, admire him or condemn him, he could no more avoid us than we could him. It’s a safe bet to say Rodrigo Roa Duterte was the most colorful, most loud-mouthed, most foul-mouthed, hardworking-est chief executive with the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza His people describe him as “unconventional,” a “radical.” If he doesn’t mind my saying so, he’s an iconoclast, “one who attacks traditional ideas or institutions; one who destroys sacred images.” This is one tough guy who caused another toughie, his chief...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza This guy PBBM is fearless. In the words of farmer-Rep. Argel Cabatbat, “like a general going to battle” instead of calling the shots from a faraway armchair. Brilliant move! – former DA secretary Manny Piñol Excellent decision! – outgoing Senate President Tito...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A triple celebration, Rizal Day, Father’s Day, the day of Sara Duterte’s oath-taking as vice president of the Philippines. All eyes were on Sara, standing beside her mother and her father the President. The city of Davao turned out to celebrate with her, but other...
