DIY Spiritual Retreat
Text by Prime Sarmiento Photos courtesy of Aaron Chua/House of Kite Early this month, I spent a weekend in KL for a spiritual retreat. Or perhaps it is a magickal one? I don’t know. All I know is when I went there and experienced what I had to experience, I finally learned to let...
Radical Change
Text and photos by Prime Sarmiento I celebrated my first Chinese New Year in a country which, despite its sizable ethnic Chinese population, has no Chinatown to speak of. Nevertheless, the first day of the CNY was declared a public holiday (not that I benefitted from it as I was on holiday duty). Most...
Singapore 2014: Nostalgia
Text and photos by Gypsy Prime I don’t live here anymore. I am never sentimental about Singapore. It might be because despite living there for nearly five years, I never considered it as my home. I have always treated Singapore as a luxury hotel – a wonderful place to be in where everything is...
The key to a happy, meaningful life
Text and photos by Prime Sarmiento A lot of people were surprised that not only I decided to work in Brunei, but I was actually enjoying my life here. To be honest, I never thought that things would work out. I only brought two suitcases with me, thinking that I would only fulfill my three...
Postcard Moment: Chiang Mai is not about Buddhism
Text: Prime Sarmiento Photos: Prime Sarmiento/Avie OIarte No one visits Chiang Mai without getting even a glimpse of its many Buddhist temples. Temples and monks in orange robes (oh and also elephants) – these are the images that most travelers will always remember about this northern Thailand city. I didn't visit Chiang...
Christmas Reflections: How to be grateful when things are not working out
Text and Photos by Prime Sarmiento " The darkness is an invitation to light, calling forth the spirit in all of us. Can you reach within yourself for enough clarity, strength, forgiveness, serenity, love,patience and faith to turn this around?" – Marianne Williamson I love Christmas if only because this is one one day...
Q & A: Christina Ambubuyog talks about travel as a spiritual experience
Interview by Prime Sarmiento Christina Ambubuyog is a career changer. She left her corporate job in 2008 to honor her creative and spiritual gifts by launching I Love Intuition-an enlightened company dedicated to show you exactly how to claim your intuition in order to create clarity, authenticity and shortcuts to success....
On Postmodern Spirituality
text and photo by: Prime Sarmiento (In my previous post, I talked about the walled city of Intramuros in Manila and how it became a center of Catholicism in the Philippines. I then reflected on the fact that such faith, with its heavy emphasis on “guilt”, hurt my personal spiritual practice. In this second...
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...
Soulcraft: My Travel Dreamboard
posted by Prime Sarmiento My mother used to say that Christmas was for kids while Easter Sunday was Christmas for adults. I was a child then and hardly understood what my mother meant. The Christians view Easter as the day to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But for others, Easter is...