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Date Posted: 01:13:56 12/31/11 Sat

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Date Posted: 13:21:11 01/01/12 Sun

HAPPY NEW YEAR BEYONDERS!!!

Here's to another good year in pageant mania! Hoping to see PHILIPPINES up in the winners circle again this year. Excited for the coming BINIBINING PILIPINAS!!!!

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Subject: MEGAN YOUNG IS READY WITH HER APPLICATION FOR BINIBINING PILIPINAS 2012:


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Date Posted: 13:35:46 01/03/12 Tue

"Man oh man it's gonna be hell month for me!" - MEGAN
She's been hitting the gym regularly in preparation for BBP 2012.

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Date Posted: 01:17:09 12/23/11 Fri



A Tale of Two covers
PEOPLE By Joanne Rae M. Ramirez



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This is a tale of three titleholders and two covers.

It was an early Christmas gift for the staff of PeopleAsia when world welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao posed for over an hour for the glossy magazine’s covers for its 12th anniversary. Yup covers!

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For this special issue, its thickest ever, PeopleAsia wanted to pay homage to three Filipinos who had made the Philippines lead stars instead of bystanders on the world stage Manny Pacquiao, Miss Universe first runner-up Shamcey Supsup and Miss World first princess Gwendoline Ruais. The year 2011 was the first time in a very long time that three Filipinos shone bright on the world stage, casting the glow from their achievements on the rest of the country as well.

With the help of many emissaries, we were able to get the world’s pound-for-pound champ to commit to his presence at the shoot at the studio of photographer Frank Hoefsmit in Taguig. Through the cell phone of Pangasinan Rep. Gina de Venecia, whom he calls “Nanay Gina,” Manny, who represents the province of Saranggani in Congress, confirmed to me that he was going to be in our shoot at 1 p.m. on Nov. 28. He kept his word, almost to the dot, accompanied only by his bodyguards and his chief of staff.

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Shamcey, through her Binibining Pilipinas handlers, confirmed her presence, too. So did Gwendoline through Cory Quirino, who holds the franchise to the Miss World-Philippines tilt.

It was a casting coup to get them all together under one roof.

But lo and behold! Shamcey’s handlers did not want her to appear in the same photo as Gwen, for reasons they would not disclose. (Shamcey and Gwen, it must be pointed out, are friends and before winning their respective titles, belonged to the same talent agency.) And according to emissaries from Manny, the champ, the gentleman that he is, did not want to exclude any of the two beauty queens from the cover.

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Like Manny, Shamcey is a native of General Santos City. Like Manny, Gwen, for her part, is a GMA-7 talent. Moreover, Manny was a judge in the Miss World-Philippines pageant that saw Gwen emerge as winner.

It was a Solomonic decision for all of us and instead of choosing between Shamcey and Gwen, the editorial board finally decided, “Why not have two covers?” It was not the first time a magazine has had two covers for the same issue. It was certainly not the first time for PeopleAsia, as we once had two covers in 2004 with then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on the one hand, and her chief rival for the presidential elections, Fernando Poe Jr., on the other. (I won’t tell you which cover sold more magazines.)

Anyway, Manny the gentleman, still fresh from his victory over Juan Miguel Marquez, the scar on his right eyebrow not yet completely healed, agreed to pose for two covers, even if it would take more time.

To Shamcey, who was very demure as she posed beside him, he said, speaking in Bisaya, “Huwag ka mahuya.” (Don’t be shy.) Earlier, when Manny walked into Frank’s Studio, without noise and fanfare, Shamcey didn’t notice his arrival. Still in curlers, she was picking up something from her bag in the common dressing room when she beheld the champion’s face when she looked up. Her jaw dropped. I imagine that’s how she would have reacted had she been chosen Miss Universe.

“Sorry,” she apologized to Manny, “Na-star-struck po ako.”


To Gwen, who was more relaxed with him, he admitted coyly he didn’t give her the highest score during the pageant, but the second highest (95 percent).

Gwen spoke in French to the photographer, and in impeccable English and flawless Filipino to the rest of us.








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Date Posted: 18:10:32 12/14/11 Wed



Athena: Defiant and beautiful in her own ‘cute’ way


How far do you think can confidence bring you?

Win Miss Earth-Water. That was Athena Imperial’s answer to the proverbial question. Athena snatched one of the coveted elemental crowns in this year’s edition of Miss Earth, ending up as a runner up to the eventual winner, the vivacious Olga Alava of Ecuador.

Athena’s victory has been the hounded by what I would call vehement objections from pageant fans and quite regrettably the Pinoy fans are in the forefront of expressing these objections. The criticisms hurled against the petite Filipina are just extremely odious that you wouldn’t want to be in her shoes anytime of the day.

On early Sunday morning, I was chatting with major, major Pinoy pageant fan Lito Mora who is based in Thailand and in the course of our conversation, he expressed the questions that have been nagging pageant aficionados—Pinoys or otherwise—since the announcement of Miss Earth winners on Saturday night, 3rd of December. Is Athena’s beauty world-class enough to snag one of the elemental titles? Is confidence enough to bring you that far?

Defying beauty standards

I will have to concede that Athena somehow defies the beauty queen mold—she’s a tad short by international pageant standards and her body frame seems to fail to make up for that “shortcoming.” Her height and body frame notwithstanding, Athena’s face is very pleasant and her almond eyes sparkle when she smiles.



It may be said that Athena does not fit the commercial and/or conventional beauty mold that most aficionados look for in contenders for an international crown, but I guess her placement was an opportunity to stretch the convention and to show that there are alternatives to the convention. Shamcey Supsup, arguably the most popular Filipina beauty queen of 2011, said it herself: “The standard of beauty is not definite; we define it.” The Miss Earth Organization through the coronation nights’ judges may have chosen to defy long-held notions of beauty. Why can’t a petite beauty like Athena with ethnic Malay features and a body frame that isn’t as ripped as those of Victoria’s Secret’s runway angels win one of the elemental crowns? Should beauty titles be confined to supermodelesque angels with “classic features” and with bodies as slender as that of Venus in Botticelli’s renowned work? But not all women look like them, do they? They are a minority and will remain a minority in the sea of variously beautiful women in the planet. Perhaps, it is time to be inclusive in our notion of what is beautiful; and Miss Earth, being a relatively young pageant, is just perfectly positioned to do that.

Speculations

Or am I being naïve in even foisting such an alternative perspective on beauty?

There’s of course a buzz that Athena’s win may have been motivated by factors other than merit—(1) that she had the hometown advantage (not really different from the second runner up finish of Brazil in Miss Universe held in Sao Paulo this year), (2) that she had the back up of the local government of the municipality that she represents (a thing that’s been hurled to South African delegates when they placed very well in Miss World in the years following the fall of apartheid in the 1990s), (3) that the organization that birthed the pageant was under pressure to produce a winner because of the successes of Shamcey, Dianne, and Gwen in their respective pageants (but last year, the Miss Earth Organization wasn’t pressured at all when Venus ended the eleven-year drought in the Miss Universe pageant and Krista ‘expressed’ herself superbly in Miss International ; Miss Philippines-Earth didn’t even make the cut).

But we can only speculate. Were the results manipulated to make Athena win? Unless stories are backed up by solid evidence, they are not worth the attention and will remain figments of imagination.

Confidence

Her perceived shortcomings notwithstanding, Athena incredibly possesses the sheer confidence that makes one a winner. You just have to watch how she strutted on stage in swimsuit despite her much criticized figure and glided in her fiery red evening gown despite being the smallest among the finalists. How she rose up after falling down the stairs during the opening number speaks volumes of her ability to know what do to in such an embarrassing situation. Sir Walter Scott calls it savoir faire.

Athena’s quick thinking skills, her self-confidence, and her ability to deemphasize her shortcomings and accentuate her assets brought her far. I dare say it almost brought her to the Earth’s throne of beauty. She perfectly exemplifies how to sashay one’s way to the top in spite of the odds.

Beauty queen still

In spite of the harsh criticisms thrown at her, Athena remains unfazed. Mabuhay Beauties perfectly describes her stance in the midst of all the negative talk about her win—“imperturbable”. Perhaps, that is Athena’s precious lesson from her experience that should be passed on to future queens. You see, year in, year out, winners of national and international pageants take home the coveted titles, but at the same time receive some of the most hateful comments from pageant fans who find it difficult to accept the results. The lesson, of course, is obvious: that is, not to dwell on the negative comments and to pursue the path of a beauty queen regardless of them.

At the end of her reign, a beauty queen will be judged no longer by how she snagged the crown, but by how she defined it.

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