Will you let them tell your fortune?

One rainy afternoon, I decided to drop by the shop of a fashion designer-friend. Lo and behold! He was busy consulting with a manghuhula. They were partly hidden by a multi-colored cloth that they made into a makeshift tent in a small corner in the already so crowded salon. The tent, I was told, created a psychic landscape conducive for the manghuhula.

A couple of minutes later, my friend came out of the tiny tent, smiling very much like Miss Botswana when she was crowned Miss Universe. The year was going to be good for him – finally, a new love would come by. And he was going to be nothing below six feet. A moreno just like his dream man. You see, this friend of mine has been so unlucky in love because among many reasons, he wants six footers to woo him. "Don’t you think it is only right that they try to win me. After all, I’m rich and beautiful?" and then he would burst into a wild, wanton laughter. "Ilusyonada!" we would scold him and he would never listen.

And then this manghuhula told him everything he wanted to hear – aside from the love forecast, he was told that business was going to flourish, although he was warned about one employee who was leaving him as if it needed a hula to know that employees leave their jobs.

I dropped by to say hello. My friend who was still at the height of his euphoria prodded me to enter the makeshift teeny weeny tent so that his manghuhula could also read my fortune. Reluctantly, I did.

I sat in front of a woman who had perhaps used up a whole eyebrow pencil on her brows and lips. She looked ridiculously frightening. She stared at me straight in the eye. I stared back.

And then she started to talk...

"You know, mag-ingat ka. Babaero ka, there’s this woman who’s going to trap you into marriage. You make women cry. Blah... blah... blah..."

I stopped myself from pulling her hair and teeth. I had a good laugh. I gave her a tip for having read my sexual preference so aptly.

Hurriedly, not wanting to disrupt the euphoric state of my friend, I said goodbye.

Madam Rosa’s predictions

But Madam Rosa is different. She is said to be truly gifted. She is not only popular but is also well regarded. She provides psychic readings and counsel to those who want to know the future. I gave her a list of celebrities and here’s what came up:

• Ai-Ai de las Alas – Romantic happiness will bring her good luck.

• Rico Yan – Business will be productive. He should take care of his health.

• Randy Santiago – Sudden change in relationship.

• Carmina Villarroel – Romance and career will balance.

• Vic Sotto – Box office movie.

• Ara Mina – Romance will improve her life.

• Joyce Jimenez – Travels abroad will attract new opportunities.

• Christopher de Leon – He will continue making millionaires and an international movie project will be offered to him.

• John Pratts – He should focus in studying his inner self.

• Joe D’Mango – New career as a movie scriptwriter.

• Dr. Margie Holmes – More books that will become best sellers!

• Kris Aquino – New TV program.

• Piolo Pascual – A box-office movie.

Do you want to take a peep in the future? You can reach Madam Rose through the PLDT Premium Phone Service Fortune Hotline. By just dialing the 24-hour PLDT Fortune Hotline 1-908-1-333-888, you can talk to her personally and get accurate predictions, psychic readings on money and life and even ask her to concoct love spells for you!

Other services available through the PLDT Premium Phone Service as the PLDT Lovenotes Hotline with Joe D Mango helping you with your love problems at 1-1908-1-14344 with sex therapist Dr. Margie Holmes giving expert advice on the Lovenotes Hotline on Feb. 27, March 6, 13 and 20 from 8 to 10 p.m.

A ‘Trance’ album

The wave that rave music has created globally has fired up the creative juices of XAX Music Entertainment Inc. to release an all-Filipino trance music album billed TRANCEposition released recently at Mazzo Bar and supported by BNY Jeans.

TRANCEposition’s programmers are The Sarge, TriS, and DN and features 11 tracks with the ’70s classic Disco Fever as its carrier single.

The album launch also marked the introduction of the new dance label of XAX, the Urban Republic Series.

According to Jimmy D.L. Barinaga, TRANCEposition’s associate producer, "XAX’s dance label is part of the company’s commitment and aggressive approach to further innovate Pinoy dance music and to always give music aficionados fresh dance music flavors."

TRANCEposition is available in CD and cassette formats.