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Watch out, Dubai – here comes Annie B! “Oh…my…goh-leeee….Dizzizit! In a few minutes, my dreams will about to be true! I will finally ride an airplane – a real one – not like the one in the perya that goes around 360 degrees Celsius Fahrenheit…….In a few hours, everything will change and my new life as a jetsetter will finally take place!”
Illustrado takes a peek at the lives of 3 Power Pinays based in the UAE – Danelle Palang, Dusit Hotel’s Dir. of Marketing Communications, Phil. Business Council – Abu Dhabi Chaiman, Entrepreneur Jan Barlow, and Entrepreneur and Cacao Farming Advocate Iman Suguitan , to find out what makes up the life of a successful Filipina living each day to the fullest.
Recently elected as the Chairman of the Philippine Business Council in Abu Dhabi, Jan Barlow is a formidable mix of a business woman and tireless community leader
Iman Suguitan is a contemporary Muslim Filipina who is both an entrepreneur and community advocate. She runs her own business, contributes to the Muslim community, whilst pushing forward a social entrepreneurship initiative, at the same time preparing for a family with her husband.
Marketing and Communications professional Danelle Ruth Palang manages what is otherwise the exhausting life of a 5-star hotelier with mild mannered equanimity as she sees the “grand design’ in her everyday life.
Ok let’s be honest here. Women are fantastic, intelligent, magical creatures of light and love. Well, most of us anyway, most of the time. As fabulous and magnificent as we can be, there are times when women say and do the wrongest things – myself included! I’ll be the first to admit that as …
I have been single for thirteen years. Let me say that again, in case you missed it, my singleness is thirteen years old. It’s funny, because there are actual humans of the same age who are getting into relationships and here I am, tap-tap-tapping away on a keyboard, sipping my tea.
Filipino in Micronesia: A Pinoy doctor gives us a glimpse of his life in Pohnpei. A place to stay or work overseas if you want a simple and quiet life.
The Pinays Take Charge campaign is an advocacy project of Illustrado in line with the Women of Substance endeavor created to contribute to Filipina empowerment. The project seeks, not only to create a more positive image for Filipinas in the region, but also to assist in addressing problems and concerns relevant to Filipinas.
Only when we believe that there exists no divergence between males and females other than physiological can we, with conviction, truly close the gender gap. When we realize that there are no societal rules on how the masculine standard is to be less loving or caring or how it is feminine is to be less aggressive and more subservient can we fully embrace the tenet that men and women are equal.
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