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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

 

Spa-virgin no more

A single dad’s first spa experience

With Father’s Day looming, my editor thought of a feature on pampering dads. I considered it a good idea—except that I would be the one to pull it off.

I am a spa-virgin as well as a single-dad.

But though alternative healing methods are a major interest, being pampered by strange hands has never been on the mind of a no-nonsense guy. My idea of relaxation is holing up in my room with a good book or an evening of practice with my martial arts buddies. But in the name of good journalism I grudgingly obliged to do the assignment.

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O T H E R   R E P O R T S

 

Prostate cancer and the lack of sex—is there a connection?

You don’t have to give a man any further reasons for having sex: It feels good, and with good reason: without it, there would be none of us. But to engage in sex only for procreation is to debase us into animals. People are made to do it. It is abstinence and guilt that are unnatural. Etcetera etcetera. But here’s more.

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Prostate cancer awareness is key for men 45-year-old and above

Prostate cancer is currently the most common form of malignancy in men after lung cancer according to the Department of Health (DOH). Some 2,026 were reported to have the disease in 1998.

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COME FLOW WITH ME
By David C. Montecillo

In my years of practising Chi energy therapies, I’ve noticed a prevailing mindset in a lot of the women I’ve done therapies on or taught chi gong and meditation. Majority of them have a mindset of lacking of “self.”

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MARTIAL TALK
By Perry Gil S. Mallari

The exercise dilemma is a problem besieging both martial artists and non-martial artists alike.

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PEOPLE
By Bob Garon

There are those among us who do great things for themselves and society. The world has become a better place because of them.

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