The Gypsy Gals’ Guide To Binondo
Text and Photos by Prime Sarmiento It's the Lunar New Year, and if ever you're in Manila there's no better place to welcome the Year of the Wooden Horse but in Binondo. And who knows I might bumped into you as I will be probably celebrating New Year's Day there (that or, I will...
Remembering Luneta
text and photos by Prime Sarmiento This is how I remember Luneta – a park where my our family go to during weekends, where my siblings and I run around the park, take turns in the slide, ride bumpcars. Later, my dad will spread the blanket on the grass and eat some sandwiches...
Travels in Intramuros and musings on my spirituality
posted by Prime Sarmiento photos by: Nina Sarmiento (Note: this is the first part of my two-part series on post-modern spirituality) I can't help but reflect about my own spirituality whenever I find myself wandering the Walled City of Intramuros. Intramuros was the political center of the Spanish colonial government in the...
Visita Iglesia 2010: A short tour of some of Manila’s historic churches
posted by: Prime Sarmiento Growing up in a devout Catholic family means spending a lot of time hearing mass in any place where there’s a Catholic church. And in a predominantly Catholic Philippines, that’s very easy as Filipinos don’t only go to church on Sundays- the traditional day of obligation. For people like my mother,...
Binondo Food Tripping (part 2): Food Wok Tour with Ivan Man Dy
posted by: Gypsygal Prime Note to self: I should really spend more time in the gym. I was thinking about this, out of guilt, or maybe out of vanity, as I munched on a spring roll (which, I have to remind all you foodies there, really goes well with a dollop of that sweet brown...