Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza On All Souls Day when millions of the living were back at work or doing their WFH chores, I chose to register my existence with the state’s stamp and documentation to prove it. It is not as if I had no passport or senior citizen’s card or a driver’s license, but...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza Kris Aquino lost several pounds due to a personal crisis but gained the love – “I feel he loves me” – of Mel Sarmiento, her fiancé, who has never looked more lovestruck. His effect on Kris has been immediately palpable. There’s now a sense of calm around her,...
Images by the author THE LURE OF BREAD Bread Basket in Vista Mall, Sta. Rosa, Laguna. Just to get out of the city on lockdown, what could be more fun than a food trip? The price of gasoline kept going up, but since the little car had not been in use for weeks, what the heck? Just board, turn the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Dolomite, dolomite! “What’s the fuss?” asked an exasperated photographer, Sonny E, who has seen lots of beaches, more beautiful and less controversial than the one along Roxas Blvd. If he was tearing his hair as he said so, would Sonny have ripped his shirt as...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza He looks like a cop, walks like a cop, talks like a cop, moves around like a cop, indeed, like the top cop that he is. But thanks to a crazy law that has produced a succession of PNP chiefs with ultra-short tours of duty, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar is leaving the service...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Philippines always late? Not when it comes to ingenious ways to make crime pay. On Oct. 23, a drone made its maiden flight in Toronto, Canada, to deliver human lungs for transplant to a hospital 1.2 km away. The event made headlines around the world. Three days before...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For days on end, TV correspondents could not get over how parents and their tykes swarmed Manila’s Dolomite Beach because the children had to have their fresh air, outdoor exercise, and liberation from 19 months of cabin fever. Adults who had been feeling the same sense...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza At long last, I can say I’ve a friend (of 40 years) who’s in the presidential sweepstakes to lead this country for the next six years. Alas, he has to beat 96 other candidates dreaming the same dream. Antonio “Butch” Valdes, CPA, businessman, commentator, pundit,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Having been liberated by the downgrading to “moderate risk” of Metro Manila as a COVID magnet, what was there to do but jump in the car – my own “bubble” – and see for myself what I’d been missing, scenery wise, for nearly two years. This is my verdict....
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Do you remember what you did four days ago, where you went and whom you met? In a nutshell, that’s the problem of a contact tracer trying to jog the memory of someone whose task is to tick off their answers to a list of questions designed not for an individual person...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Baguio, the summer capital, now just a capital without summer as storm winds lashed and tropical rain fell in sheets alternating with drizzles. In one corner of the cake shop at Baguio Country Club on the first working day of the week, I thought I spotted the general,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza As an admirer of political scientist Clarita Carlos – and even if I were not – I agree with her sagacious opinion: Groom the young ones and see them shine! If Prof Carlos was talking about political candidates, I would guess she had in mind, without naming names,...
