By Dominador Agbayani
Two first runner-up
positions and never a crown! This year, Queenierich Rehman tries her luck to
become the first Miss World to come from the Philippines. It would be tough endeavor
for our 23 year old 5’7” candidate as 124 other candidates from all over the
world compete for the crown held in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. Just like
last year, the Miss World Beauty Pageant has different activities lined up and
that candidates earn points and all scores are accumulated and those in the Top
20 compete for the Top 7 positions and eventually the Top 3 winners.
The fast track events
in the calendar of Miss World are Top Model, Beach Beauty, Sports, Talent and
Beauty with a Purpose. The Philippine candidate has shown versatility and
ingenuity in her talent that merited a standing ovation from the audience which
included the other candidates. She did a beatboxing talent. Beatboxing is a
form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of producing drum beats,
rhythm and musical sounds using one’s moth, lips, tongue and voice. In the
presentation of Queenie, she presented with singing and vocal imitation of
turntablism. For everyone to understand, turntablism is the art of manipulating
sounds and creating music using phonographs turntable or digital turntables. It
is just like mixing the music through a turntable. Although they say that
beatboxing is part of the hip-hop culture, with Queenie performing, the sight
of a beauty queen performing a talent like this is already a spectacle and
people are not only amused but they get engrossed as well.
It is no wonder to see
Queenie being part of the Top 47 candidates that entered the Top Model
Competition. In the Philippines, Queenie has modeled in a lot of events. And as
such, she knows how to traverse the runway and therefore is very knowledgeable
at that.
The candidates have
paraded their evening gowns for the Fashion Designer Award. The Miss World
Blogger has intimated that Queenie’s gown is stunning. I hope Michael Cinco
bags the award for this portion. I don’t know however if this is part of the
fast track events that would earn the candidates’ points. Next on the heels of
the competition is the Beach Beauty Competition. The hopes are high because
Queenie in her local competition was the Best in Swimsuit. She did well in this
competition as she became one of the finalists. On the Sports Competition,
being a basketball and volleyball varsitarian, Queenie would do well again in
this competition. The new fast track event which is the Social Media Award
shows us Queenie in the 3rd place so far. I just hope Filipino pageant
fans will come to like her page which is "https://www.facebook.com/
And lastly, we have not
heard anything about Queenie’s social project yet. What has she submitted as
part of her Beauty with a Purpose Project? As we are in hunger in getting the
first crown from Miss World, we put our trust that Ms. Cory Quirino has prepared
a project that will highlight Queenie’s reign as Miss World Philippines – a beauty
queen with a purpose.
There are great fears
that despite of the inherent qualities of Queenie she would be snubbed as we
are in China soil. China is a country that is presently in a scuttlebutt with
the Philippines due to some territorial island/shoal claims. Indeed we agree
with such perception. Although beauty pageants are supposed to be about beauties,
however, time and time again, history had made its mark in the choices of the
winners, politics always rear its ugly head in selection of some winners. We
have extended our support for pageant fans to vote for her, gave her our
appreciation as perform remarkably well but we can just pray for the best
evitable result. We wish her the best of luck.
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