Hello 👋 I am Daniel Sebastianne Daiz.

This site contains my scribbles and mental notes on a bunch of topic, from physics to politics, from torts to theater, and everything else in between.

Senate rules change and a quorum problem

Because I like to nerd about legislative practice and procedure, the foregoing are some thoughts on what happened in the Senate on Tuesday evening.

Reflections on the exception of members of Congress from the Ombudsman’s disciplinary authority

Accountability finds itself at a conundrum.

Harmonizing the concept of a citizen suit vis-à-vis a real party in interest in civil actions and locus standi in constitutional litigation

In the early 1990s, a group of children—for themselves and “generations yet unborn”—sued the Philippine Government. They wanted to cancel all existing timber...

The thinning of the Sunday paper

I was in the middle of my elementary years when I began the habit of reading the broadsheet. It’s weird for a kid to read a broadsheet, but it’s nice to look...

Unfinished manuscripts

I have to make a confession: I have two unfinished essays.