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  • THE FILIPINO CALENDAR: Events & Announcements

    PUBLIC RELATIONS, MARKETING, & EVENTS FOR THE FILIPINO AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (and other places) Click here for THE FILIPINO CALENDAR: EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS. My sister, Noemi Dado, is coaching me on-line on how to use the newest version of Word Press for my website’s contents. I highly recommend it to…

  • Why I Search The Internet For My Name

    I am here, stuck somewhere in Illinois, enjoying the frost-bite weather of the Midwest. I’m looking outside the dining area’s sliding doors to an enchanting vista of leaf-less trees perched on a white landscape (it’s a golf course). The sun is shining on this peaceful scene and I’m thinking, “Christmas is late this year.” Although…

  • A Dream House

    Nowadays, when new friends ask me how old I am (I have gotten over the “that is such a rude question!” paradigm), I just say, “I’m 37!” However, during the year I turned 40 years old — which was a few years back, when email was relatively just beginning to be very popular and the…

  • True Friends

    Sometimes, I have to stop myself from categorizing my friends. There’s the “networking friend,” someone I meet during events. We exchange business leads or play catch-up with what’s new in each other’s lives. Then, there’s the business colleague or associate — someone that I work with. I also have “personal friends,” a.k.a. my confidantes who…

  • The Non-Profit Organizations I Belong To

    www.NaFFAA.org – National Federation of Filipino American Associations www.FFWN.org – Filipina Women’s Network www.YFPA.org – Young Filipino Professional Association

  • April Insurance Agency, April Financial Inc. & Intero Real Estate San Francisco Sunset

    www.ThinkApril.com is a very exciting place to work in. I am a part-time employee here, focused on assisting John and Vonny Oei, my brokers, with marketing copywriting and strategies for their “one stop shop” —- real estate, mortgage, and insurance. There’s also a title company in the premises.

  • What’s The Fire About Senator Leland Yee?

    SPECIAL TO KABARI NEWS, the monthly magazine for the Indonesian community It was an unusually spring-like Saturday afternoon in early February 2007 when Senator Leland Yee visited one of his former campaign offices that had been a mega-center of activity for his bid to win a seat at the California State Assembly in 2002. Dr.…

  • “Finding the Vagina Warrior” in the Filipina Woman

    The Stimulant: When I auditioned and was selected to deliver a monologue in the Filipina Women’s Network production of “The Vagina Monologues” or TVM, which had its first San Francisco Bay Area performance to a sold-out crowd at Herbst Theatre in San Francisco on March 30, 2004, my “work & life” seeds with “Women in…

  • “Working” at 10

    The Stimulant: My father, ever-efficient, taught me at a very young age that there were certain things about life that couldn’t be learned in school. At that time, I didn’t understand what he was training me for. I was only 10 years old. All I could think about was that he was disrupting my TV…

  • Filipinas Magazine: “The Magazine for Filipinos Worldwide”

    Since I am also promoting Filipino Consciousness, I would appreciate your referrals for subscriptions and potential advertisers/sponsors for Filipinas Magazine. Check it out first at www.filipinasmag.com. For US residents, it’s only $18 for a year’s subscription (12 issues, monthly). Please e-mail me at [email protected] if you want to subscribe or advertise. I’ll take care of…

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