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AnP
Founder & Editor This working mom is a seasoned traveler who has seen the world and has been transplanted many times. A numerical analyst who lives for her family and the thought that she would, one day, move back to her country of birth, the Philippines.
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Junnie
was a gigolo in and around Switzerland for over 2 years, lugging around his trusty camera around Europe while his wife worked day in and out. He is now on his next journey to North America, hoping his wife continues to work while he takes more pictures.
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Ruth
Editor Ruth worked at IRRI as a microbiologist before she got married to a German national and relocated to Germany in 2000. Currently, she's a stay-at-home mother to a 2-year-old, accepting contractual, free-lance research work at the university from time to time.
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Julien
Web Developer This french engineer will be claiming the Filipino citizenship since he can now succesfully strain the juice of a calamansi on his pancit without losing any seeds. When he is not eating pancit, he codes PHP for PINOYexpats.
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Kala
Art Director Kala is a freelance web/graphic designer. She lives in France with her imaginary pet, a cat called Euclid. Her most prized possession is her robot from China named Mahmud.
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Europe
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Charl
Columnist Charl is an IT professional who first came to Europe for a 6-month project in Madrid back in 1996. This project expanded to more opportunities to visit and work in different cities in different continents. More than a decade later, London is now her base until work or somebody says otherwise. Aside from the jetset lifestyle, she has passion for food, photography and dancing (salsa, sevillana, tango and soon-to-learn, capoeira).
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Raquel
Columnist Raquel is proud to be a second generation sakada (migrant worker). Just like her father before her who migrated from Panay to Negros, she ventured to search for greener pastures. She went to Europe for the sake of science and stayed there for the sake of love. Profession: mother (twins), wife (to a German) and scientist (Biology), exactly in that order. Hobbies: travelling (over 40 countries, 6 continents), writing (scientific & creative) & jogging/running (best time: 26 min, 5 km). Current home base: Zurich
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Beth Castillo-Winsor
Columnist Beth is a self-declared nomad who has worked as a teacher, writer and newscaster. She lived in Tokyo, Japan for six years before being transplanted to England. She loves photography, travel and crispy seaweed. She lives in a pretty little town outside of London with her British husband, her very pregnant belly and their Uglydoll, Wedgehead.
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Oliver Victor B. Amoroso
Columnist Oli's passion for travel and adventure is evident. He has been writing
travel journals since the age of 13. At the age of 25, he left a
thriving P.R. career at GMA-7 and became a nomad. With a laptop, a
bunch of travel guides, and a passport on his backpack, these led him
to the usual and unusual places in the Middle East, Southeast Asia,
and the United Kingdom. Since 2005, he has already traveled 6,000
miles, by car, around the U.K., experienced camping at the Red Sand,
rode a camel, and visited 7 countries in 3 continents. He also writes
a weekly lifestyle column for the Philippine Star's Freeman newspaper
and is a contributor to GMA-7's Kapuso Magazine.
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North America
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Pia Vicente-Mena
is a former performing artist. She sang and acted for TV commercials, shows and drama anthologies, did back-up vocals in recordings and concerts for Gary Valenciano, Regine Velasquez and other artists, appeared in various roles in different musicals staged in Manila and is a founding member of Trumpets. She now lives in Boston with her husband and works for a financial firm.
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Tintin
Columnist Tintin was born in the Philippines, moved to Canada when she was 10 years old, and is now based in Texas, U.S.A with her husband. She knows all about missing home while learning to love an adopted country , juggling cultures (she is married to a Moroccan). She loves to travel, learn about different cultures, regularly pretends she knows how to speak French and sometimes speaks with a British accent.
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Asia & the Pacific
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Kat
Columnist Kat is a product of two cities - Manila, home of the All-SPAM restaurant, and Sydney, home of the world's only Lindt café. She's an addicted blogger, frustrated dancer, freelance writer, and aspiring author of trashy romance novels. In her spare time, she keeps up her day job to support a chronic chocolate habit. Kat also writes for The Australian Filipina Woman's Magazine and Paguro.
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Christine
Columnist Christine left the comforts of family (and househelps!), friends, a thriving career and familiar surroundings to travel down under and be with her man. Living in New Zealand brought her domesticated bliss (her culinary repertoire now includes so much more than boiling water), a promising career in Economic Development and independence. She strategises the direction of her adoptive homeland by day and commandeers her family's home and social life at night and on weekends while maintaining an active online life through freelance writing, editing Asia-Pacific contributions to PINOYexpats, managing her crafts biz, CreativeXpression and the Scrapbooking Blog.
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Kristyn Maslog-Levis
Columnist - Kristyn is a broadcast journalist/writer/photographer based in Sydney, Australia. She lives with her musician husband and their fluffy Maltese "children" Stitch and Felix. She lived in Singapore for a year to finish her Masters degree in Communications under the ASEAN scholarship. Prior to that, she worked as a TV journalist and writer in the Philippines. Kristyn is a self-confessed nerd-borderline-geek and is an avid collector of zombie movies and Mortal Kombat PS2 games. She's learned to love Vegemite too.
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