MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Or should that be red my lipstick? After months of no-going-out and mask-wearing (which abhors the use of lipstick) and thanks to Angel Locsin, I remembered I had a little carousel of lipsticks in different colors. But no red. It used to be the convention that red...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza “I’m shaking the tree!” announced typhoon Rody, but unlike the real typhoon Rolly where real trees were shaken and toppled, the great wind was not contented with being one typhoon, it had to be three in a row. Quinta was not the fifth (as its name implied) but the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza With December already programmed into our waking and sleeping consciousness, it’s time to draw up a list of Christmas wishes for the naughty and the nice. One doesn’t have to be a genius to say that food will be the gift of choice come Dec. 15 and thereabouts –...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Sen. Ping Lacson on the general who can’t stop talking about two of the most beautiful Filipinas in the world, Catriona Gray and Lisa Soberano: He talks too much. The general’s superiors, the Defense Secretary and the Commander in Chief, are powerless to shut him up....
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza With their masks and face shields on, are senior citizens distinguishable as 60, 65, 70, 75 years old? Unless they’re bent and crooked, with utterly white hair and one hand holding a cane or walking stick, can security guards at mall entrances guess how old they are?...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza So it has happened. The “blended learning” system has claimed its first victim. Not of floods and landslides, not a dog or snake, not a hit-and-run or holdup. He was just doing his job – though clearly above and beyond the call of duty – delivering modules to his...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It’s in the air, all right. Prematurely, perhaps, but necessary to our sense of survival. As TV anchors keep reminding, Christmas is just a wish away. On one of my daring trips outside the gates of our house, I drove from Quezon City to Manila – with the blessings of...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When things go wrong, you wring your hands or you use them to “ease the situation.” In the time of the great pandemic, when those who are not in perfect health are considered highly vulnerable to the novel coronavirus, how are the sick and young residents of ChildHaus...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza If there was ever an original “plantita” it’s got to be Mina Gabor, former secretary of tourism. For the last many years she has been promoting sustainable tourism, “mother” of ecotourism and farm tourism, all of which involve a passion for planting for the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Teacher, it’s your turn to listen. Can we make going to school more fun, less cruel? The picture of a third grader crying because he was exhausted by the amount of homework he was forced to leave unfinished went viral two days ago. No doubt parents, outstanding alumni,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A question that’s either too late or too soon to ask, too rhetorical at any rate. At any rate, a furniture designer with a background in psychology estimates that WFH (work from home) has saved us 58 minutes and 2,000 steps of walking and just standing around; another...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Unbelievable, times three! You thought a Pulse Asia rating of 91% and 92% approval of the President in terms of trust and job performance was too good to be true? Phenomenal, until, some days later Pulse Asia reveals another 92% score, this time for the government’s...
