MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Millions of us are said to be in search of a job. Searching, however, is working, so how hard the searchers are willing to search and find is up to them. The other side of the coin is that there aren’t enough jobs to go around. Both private and public sectors...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Do you hear the hooves of the Horses as they approach? War in Ukraine, invasion by Russia. Famine, or in the words of the UN, a food crisis that could lead to a global shortage next year. Pestilence – Covid, dengue, monkeypox, HIV-AIDS, ASF, bird flu. Conquest – think...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Mr. President, you can do it: 21 days before you step out of Malacañang, 21 days to save our fishermen, farmers, jeepney drivers, housewives, commuters, the masses from the high prices of fuel that have all but taken the joy out of work. Caught between the excise tax...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Have you noticed, asked Danilo, how old fogeys like us don’t go out at night anymore? A matter of age, then, that oldies don’t put themselves in the mood to leave the house after a long day of lolling around in their loosest, most comfy clothes, doing nothing or...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Education, as parents and teachers and the incoming government see it, is the biggest challenge facing the youth of the fatherland. It must be a matter of grave concern to us all, alumni or not, that UP has slid from its 2021 ranking of No. 84 to 129 in a recent survey of...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Purely by accident or coincidence, the two statisticians who guided us through the helter-skelter madness of Covid-19 and the May 2022 elections share a common name. Dr. Guido David of OCTA Research, UP, and Edson Guido of ABS-CBN data analytics. Edson Guido is the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Destiny. Destiny? That’s what the astrologer said. Father and son, both September-born Virgos. How Marcos Jr. looks, walks, talks, dresses like Marcos Sr. (at least when Jr.’s sporting the barong shirt-jac that FM made fashionable in the last century). Mythology....
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza The biggest voter turnout, 88 percent. Fastest vote count. By 6:30 p.m. on May 10, a total of 98 percent of votes counted, unofficially. More peaceful, with fewer election-related crimes reported than in previous exercises. The biggest margin won by a presidential...
And neither is this book history, though someday it might well be “Chinatown is not a place,” declared journalist-author Jullie Yap Daza to her friends. Now that sentence is the title of her latest book. Technically, Chinatown is one square kilometer in size, an area surrounded by streets whose...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For many people, it’s the mourning after. But they must know that the winners, and those expecting to be proclaimed winners, won’t be spared from a bad, bad case of nerves. History is replete with stories of battle-tested generals and warriors who felt the price of...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Oldtimers do believe that the elections this time around are the most “toxic” yet – to use Yorme’s vocabulary – and it may largely be due to the influence of social media. Seen in this light, anti-social would be more appropriate. If the air is no longer fresh...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza If the politically influential Iglesia ni Cristo have made and proclaimed their choices, perhaps it’s time you did. If you haven’t, the following names might help you decide. Liza. . . Dynee . . . Jinkee . . . Alice. Each a potential first lady. With Cory we did not...
