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Thursday, July 31, 2008

 

Quiapo: Your new drugstore

Listing the top alternative medicines around the sacred place

IT was like a scene taken from the Bible itself. The fringes of the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene—Quiapo Church—festering with all that is pagan and unchristian. Fortune tellers and prayers-for-hire, rainbow colored candles, brass Masonic talismans, stone pyramids, glass orbs, jade Taoist and Buddhist zodiac symbols as well pirated DVDs, many sold by local Muslims.

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O T H E R   R E P O R T S

 

SKEPTIC TANK
By Tim Tayag

The thing I hate the most about watching movies with blind people is that they can’t seem to shut up. They always ask, “OK, what’s happening now?” I paid the same amount of money to see this flick without distractions.

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THE SINGLE FILES
By Ana Santos

A 26-year-old French woman who has decided to make a life for herself in the Philippines talks about being wooed Pinoy style.

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FAN GIRL
By Karen Kunawicz

This week I made a resolution to cut down my gallivanting. The past two weeks I’ve been going out every night and I just don’t have the charm to get reprieves on undone and incomplete homework and chapters left unread.

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Renée Salud

Celebrity fashion designer and style icon Renée Salud recently partnered with Natasha to help Filipino women dress sharp.

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PEOPLE
By Bob Garon

Gratitude is a virtue that is very much neglected nowadays. Many people have forgotten how to even say thank you for the great blessings in their lives, never mind the little ones. They take without a word of appreciation.  

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