MY WISH LIST FOR THE BINIBINING PILIPINAS 2013!!!

By Rolando Rafael

The heat is on! The Binibining Pilipinas Charities, Inc. Secretariat has announced that aspirants to a Binibining Pilipinas Crown (International, Universe and Tourism) have until January 15, 2013 to file their applications. After that, series of screenings will be done to select the top number of official candidates. Two years ago, it was 40 candidates, last year it was 30; for this year, it would probably be the same number as that of last year.

Will the heat result to more conflagrations this year? Last year was so fiery. The choice of Miss Janine Mari Tugonon for the title of Miss Universe Philippines 2012 was met with dissension among pageant fans. They wanted another candidate MJ Lastimosa to be the winner. The winner Miss Tugonon was lambasted in almost all pageant forum but she kept her cool. And fate would not have any of these.  Ms. Tugonon went on to dazzle everyone in her Las Vegas foray. She wowed the audience from start to finish and became first runner-up. Well, after her loss, even her meanest critic accepted that she was simply par excellence. And they have started weaving conspiracy theories why Miss Tugonon lost. Well, Queentessence made their say and took a move forward stance. And here we are, looking forward to this year’s possibilities.

How I wish the following girls compete again for 2013:

First on my list is to let Ali Forbes come back. With Olivia Culpo’s win over Janine Tugonon’s much superior answer in the Miss Universe 2012 Question and Answer portion, Ali is a beautiful candidate in Olivia’s mold – petite, beautiful face, exquisite, sophisticated and radiantly fresh looking. With a year of training in speech and elocution, she should be a cinch for a possible Miss Universe Philippines title? 

Isabelle Diaz Daza is next on my wish list. Will this girl succumb from fan pressure? Will she succumb to the wishes of people who yearn for the third Miss Universe title for the country? And who will have the right to all these accolades except for the daughter of the first Philippine Miss Universe. She has the face! She has the body to die for! She has brains and she is witty enough to be a beauty queen. She is taller than her mother. She exudes a winner even if the pageant has not started yet?

If we are talking of Isabelle, then Georgina Wilson can’t be far behind. She is a cousin of Isabelle. And therefore, half of their genes came from the same DNA strand. And if height, beauty and poise is to be talked about Georgina, she fits into the T. She is said to be highly independent, has a strong drive to success and the intelligence that can propel her to the top. With these qualities alone, she can be in the front line for our search for third crown? So what are those handlers doing? Convince her to dip her foot in the proverbial pool of beauty queens and let us see how they can put back the crown we have been longing for in this part of the globe.

Megan Young is another in this wish list. She is the Philippines’ answer to the beauteous and sensuous Angeline Jolie. What with those thick and luscious lips! Will she try out this year? Last year she was being egged to participate in the pageant but she did in one of the activities as one of the hosts. The viewers wanted her as a participant and see her triumph and herald the country for another Miss Universe title. Will this girl enlist this year? Well, as I said, she is in our wish list.

Luzelle Felipe is the quintessential Filipina beauty heralded as pedicab beauty. Well, whether it was used only to drum up interest for her, it really doesn't matter because this tall, lithe and beautiful girl is truly amazing. It has been said that she is training hard to be perfect in all departments and I could only wish that if she did, come out girl and show your competitive stuff.

Well, if my wish list is fulfilled, possibility for a triumphal victory in 2013 is not far-fetched. These are just possibilities and when we talk about possibilities, it could always happen. Well let us when the candidates are out there to strut it out and fight it out for a slot of the Top 30.