Jullie Y. Daza MEDIUM RARE Born into the business, it was her destiny to grow, develop, and prosper it in all capacities but one, that of movie star. Yet she was a star in her own right, fighting behind the scenes and the cameras to give Tinsel Town Philippines a glossy new shine. “Manay Ichu”...
Jullie Y. Daza MEDIUM RARE Calm down, everybody. Not only does MTRCB not have the ability to “regulate” Netflix, it doesn’t have the technology. (If it had, could it share its chops with DepEd, with teachers and students who are struggling to cast the other net first, Internet?) The movie and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Joseph Pemberton is free to go after he was ordered released from his airconditioned cell. Our nurses who have been accepted for employment abroad want to go but cannot because of a ban owing to the pandemic. They should apply for a GCTA pass with the Olongapo regional...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza Like a series of wakes it was, the ABS-CBN employees’ sign-off. Their network pulled the plug on Aug. 31 after its application for a franchise was trashed by 70 out of 310 congressmen. Ted Failon has left, so have Anthony Taberna and Gerry Baja. Next, the provincial TV...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When the numbers are so massive they numb (as in number?) the mind, how does one read the story behind the figures? Luckily for us, there are numerate people like ABS-CBN’s Edson Guido, chief of data analytics. The world is divided according to numerate persons who...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza My daughter has been threatening to put up her Christmas tree on time for the first day of the ‘ber months. The best way to explain this to foreigners is to say that our Christmas starts on the first of September and ends on the sixth of January. Even Jose Mari Chan is...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When the two leading lights of the IATF exchange notes because something is worrying them, we should be worried. Secretary Carlito Galvez, chief implementer, to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra: An increase in suicides has been observed during the lockdown. Secretary...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Add two words to those two above and what do you get? A movie title that practically everyone in this country can sing. From Russia with Love was the second James Bond movie, produced in 1963, and though a parade of Bonds blonde and mostly not blonde have come and gone...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Who is the DepEdiot who made the “suggestion” that kids on distance learning sit in front of their computers for eight hours? Does this guy consider himself an educator (???) and what is his IQ? Like suckers who are born every minute, certain subnormal species thrive...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza “What is it about August?” asked US President George Bush when he launched Operation Desert Shield, one of a series of “shock and awe” maneuvers in the Middle East (this was before the demise of Saddam Hussein and Khadafi). In our family, the only August-born has...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza On Aug. 14, eve of the Feast of the Assumption to heaven of the Most Blessed Mother of God, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issued a pastoral message addressed to teachers, educators, students, seminarists, and the Catholic faithful, to...
MEDIUM RARE I promised myself not to mention COVID-19 – there I go! – days before the latest lockdown is supposed to end. End? Some say the MECQ is not long enough. Privately, what I think is lacking is a woman’s touch in the all-male, heavily militarized IATF. Yes, sir, we need a woman –...
