Marivic rufino biography sample
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“I’m downsizing my lifestyle, simplying my life, because I feel lighter and freer,” says Marivic whose lovely face and trim figure belie her age. “Actually, inom downsized in 2006 when my husband and best friend Rafael Buenaventura passed away. I moved to a small house but got flooded during Ondoy and I had several allergies for months so I moved to this unit.”
Having weathered her own private storms, Marivic basks in sunlit mornings full of hope and glorious sunsets full of promise. Today, Marivic the artist, writer, concert producer, and businesswoman — she’s also vice chair of Red Cross Makati, PLDT Smart Foundation trustee, and board member of Carl Jung Circle Center — is simply content wielding her paintbrush, spending time with family and close friends, doting on her grandchildren, taking her horse Mistral for a ride around Polo Club, attending to her civic work, cherishing precious past memories and creating new ones, and dreaming of the day she’ll walk down the aisle again wit
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About
Maria Victoria Rufino – Filipino visual artist, writer, concert producer, and business woman.
Graduated with honors from Marymount Manhattan, New York, with a Liberal Arts degree, major in Theatre Arts and English Literature. Born in the Philippines, she attended high school in Barcelona, Spain and Italy and graduated valedictorian from Marymount International School, Rome.
She studied painting in both the Western and Chinese tradition (Ling Nan) under various masters in Manila and New York. She has held 15 solo exhibitions of “Dreamscapes,” her romantic and luminous watercolor paintings and mixed media artworks in San Francisco, California; at the Unesco House in Paris; and Manila.
A regular columnist for BusinessWorld newspaper, her first book, Beyond Brushstrokes, an anthology of profiles of significant Filipinos (Bookmark, 1995), was launched at the Ayala Museum, Manila. She was one of 13 essayists for the best-selling anthology “Women
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Find out how popular the first name Marivic has been for the last 1 years (from 1981 to 1981) and learn more about the meaning and history.
Meaning of Marivic
A feminine given name of uncertain origin, possibly a portmanteau of Mary and Victoria.
Popularity of Marivic by gender
Based on the last 1 years of data, Marivic is exclusively a female name.
For the most recent data in 1981, there were 10 female babies and 0 male babies born with the name Marivic.
| Year | Male Count | Female Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 0 | 10 |
The history of the first name Marivic
The given name Marivic fryst vatten a combination of two names, Maria and Victoria. It fryst vatten primarily used in the Philippines and has its roots in Spanish and Latin origins.
The name Maria traces its origins to the Latin word "mare," meaning "sea." It was a popular name among early Christians and was later adopted as the name of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. The name Victoria, on the other hand, derives fr