MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Not unexpectedly, the government TV channel has been running a series of news features on the Duterte legacy, including his signature war on drugs. On his birthday, the President was congratulated by his executive team – cabinet secretaries – for having fulfilled his...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza You have two days left to greet us a Happy Women’s Month and let us choose, be a happy woman or have a happy month? Happiness is a moment, a condition or an attitude; like love, hard to define. But if a country (or nation) may be considered a family, as in the UN...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Water, water, water! The heat is on. Rain, rain, come this way and stay any day. Only God can make a raindrop, but if man can mix two parts hydrogen with one part oxygen and produce water (H20), can he make an ocean? And even if God causes the rain to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Excerpts culled from a replay of “The Chat Room” on PTV, with UniTeam candidate BBM replying to questions by Communication Secretary Martin Andanar and Erwin Tulfo. “Food sovereignty.” Plant enough to produce our own supply to keep prices steady. Learn from...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza ABS-CBN news anchor Bernadette Sembrano’s throw-away line during her extro, “I’m not going back to my old life!” was said with such glee and gusto, it made my day! She did not elaborate, but everyone who heard her knew what she meant. There’s merit in staying...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Having run out of new books to read, I picked through dusty shelves for something to rediscover. And there it was, a slender little book in sunset shades of orange and gold. During a black period of deadly assassinations, character assassination, attention-calling crimes,...
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...
