MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza After every Tom, Dick, and Harry reviewed the President’s State of the Nation Address, now I can share my biggest disappointment. I was waiting for him to show us how many barangay officials he had caught with their fingers in the cookie jar, which would then have...
MEDIUM RARE Farewell, Mayor Fred Lim, policeman, police chief, NBI director, senator of the Republic, always a friend to police reporters, their photographers and editors. He lived a checkered career that mythically began in a soap opera-worthy setting, Hospicio de San Jose home for orphaned...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For the moment, for sure the best action plan the government need not have a hand in crafting – with no cost whatsoever as the advice is free, minus consultation fee – is Dr. Tony Leachon’s instruction to one and all: Behave as if we’re under ECQ. No threats of...
Medium Rare ECQ to MECQ to GCQ... and now, back to MECQ. What a language! It may sound like Greek but it’s beyond translation into the national language. Not that MECQ 2 means anything to me, as there’s no real difference between one category and the next, not if you’re old and, as they keep...
MEDIUM RARE There’s an army of the forgotten out there helping us with their services to keep life as normal as thinkable in these extraordinary times. As we acknowledge the sacrifices of our medical and police frontliners, so let’s take a moment to thank the people hidden behind the myriad...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Dr. Tony Leachon, IATF ex-consultant, hit the nail on its head when he articulated the state of the Filipino nation in two words: “Quarantine fatigue.” He added, “Information fatigue.” (If I may contribute another two, suspended animation.) Exactly 139 days after...
MEDIUM RARE Who had the most fun watching the President’s SONA, his fifth and second to the last? It looks like Mae “Juana Change” Paner wins, hands and flippers down. Her costume of a certain “Hairy Roque” outperformed all the other effigies, she hogged the whole nine yards sans pool --...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It’s not enough that riding-in-tandem sweethearts and couples wear their helmets, masks, gloves, for now there must be an acrylic shield between them whenever they mount their motorcycles. In addition, they should have with them their marriage certificate or ID showing...
MEDIUM RARE All eyes on the President for his SONA on Monday. All ears, too. We’re hungry for some good news, Sir, not the usual mindboggling statistics prepared by your IATF club. We’re not out of the woods yet. -- IMF The worst is yet to come. -- WHO No light at the end of the tunnel. –...
MEDIUM RARE And the race is on! Which of the 23 anti-COVID-19 vaccines being developed in China and the First World will be first to cross the finish line? We may not be able to afford the prices of those early vaccines, but we have some homegrown remedies that doctors and pharmacologists are...
MEDIUM RARE So many things about the coronavirus that we don’t know about, yet. Is it airborne, and if it is, will it make it an even tougher enemy to wipe out? Why is it spreading so fast in the National Capital Region, after five months of strict isolation, quarantine, and limited movement of...
MEDIUM RARE Married couples, live-in partners, common-law spouses, and same-sex pairs are not only allowed to ride motorcycles, they have all the right to advertise their lovey-dovey station in life by the simple expedient of installing a plastic shield between the rider’s back and his...
