Think Out Loud

Road trip + sceneries + DLSR camera = perfect way to start September!

It was a sudden trip to Nueva Ecija. My two companions were sent there to receive an award for the organization while I was sent there to cover it. I have been to Nueva Ecija before and I wasn't really that impressed with its landscapes. From what I remembered, it was just a province full of rice farms.

But we didn't realize that the place we were going to was the last town of the province and it sits almost in the boundary of Nueva Ecija and Aurora Province (and Aurora holds a special place in my heart). So it was a really big surprise for me to see mountains in plain-covered Nueva Ecija!

Hidden Valley

Amigas

How ironic that the winner of Ms. Universe's 2010 Ms. Congeniality Award, Jesinta Campbell of Australia, is making 'uncongenial' remarks about the beauty contest. I read yesterday in Yahoo! that she claimed her national costume was tampered with. In the Herald Sun , she said Mexico, Latin America, and the Philippines were very competitive during the competition. It exploded into a full-blown rumor that she drop named Ms. Mexico (the pageant winner) and our very own Ms. Philippines (the 4th runner-up) as directly involved in the sabotage. But she never did (directly, that is). Anyway, I still wonder whether it was really a case of Costume Sabotage or just the usual case of Wardrobe Malfunction.

If everything that is circling around is true, i think Miss Australia should be stripped off her award and her 2nd runner up title because she's causing enough trouble in the Miss Universe world. There is nothing 'congenial' about her now and the antics she's brewing just goes to show that she is one sore loser.

Two words for her: Move On.

Joyce Burton Titular (author of the blog Adventures of a Beauty Queen ) shares her thoughts and opinions on the matter with grace, dignity, and flair as what is expected from a former beauty queen. She gives Ms. Australia the benefit of the doubt, was very positive, and didn't backlash her.

This is what she said:

Australia’s Jesinta Campbell Most Likely Misquoted on Gown Sabotage…

After Venus Raj’s Major Major answer that rocked our universe, we have a new issue raging among pageant fans – Australia’s Jesinta Campbell’ s claim that someone sabotaged her national costume. In a radio interview with NOVA FM in Australia, she said that someone stuck 6 pins to the back of her costume and she had to smile through the pain during the presentation.

In the interview she said there were 82 other girls and couldn’t narrow it down so it’s a mystery to her. Then she was also quoted in the Herald Sun saying:

“Winning is so important for those girls because they become queens in their country and are worshipped if they win – and it changes everything forever for them.”

While I don’t think the above statement was a wise one, specially since Jesinta Campbell’s own future has been changed forever by her 2nd Runner-up win at the Miss Universe 2010, I also don’t think it is wise to assume that Jesinta Campbell was including our very own Venus Raj (Philippines) in the accusation. Not many people outside our nation know that we ‘worship’ our beauty queens. But many people do know that the Latin American nations have that tendency. And that is why, when I read the above quote, I felt that she was pointing to the Latinas.

That is very sad of course, considering that Jesinta Campbell won Miss Congeniality and should have been congenial enough to remember the strong possibility that she was voted for by girls who come from nations that do ‘worship’ their beauty queens.

So while the ‘accusation’ is an unfortunate one, I think it’s far worse to turn her worm of a statement into a dragon.

But then again, what would we pageant fans talk about?