Binibining Pilipinas 2008 winning answer?
Really surprised by candidate #15, the 17-year-old Janina San Miguel, a beauty title holder and a graduate of University of the East messed up her Q&A portion but still managed to win the Bb. Pilipinas-World title. Captions courtesy of PMT
Question:
The question is, what role did your family play to you as candidate to Binibining Pilipinas?Janina San Miguel:
Well, my family’s role for me is so important because there was the wa- they’re, they was the one who’s… very… Haha… Oh I’m so sorry, Ahhmm… My pamily… My family… Oh my god… I’m… Ok, I’m so sorry… I… I told you that I’m so confident… Eto, Ahhmm, Wait… Hahahaha, Ahmmm. Sorry guys because this was really my first pageant ever because I’m only 17 years old and ahahaha I, I did not expect that I came from, I came from one of the top 10. Hmm, so… but I said that my family is the most important persons in my life. Thank you.
Huh?? OK..it must be the pressure but she said she don’t feel the pressure at all…anyway, goodluck na lang!
March 10th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
hahaha! ridiculous!
March 17th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Can Filipina women who enter pagaents learn to speak and answer questions in ENGLISH with British or American confidence, and not FOB mannerisms. Stupid Charlene Gonzales embarassed all Filipino-Americans when she answered her final question that she wanted to be like “Wonder Woman”….God, that was the stupidist answer in the world, and embarassed the f**k out of all the FILIPINO-AMERICANS who were viewing the Miss Universe pageant. If you have the video from that year, that definitely was a FOB answer the world will always know. Charlene, honey, I was never so embarassed to be Filipino after watching you answer your final question. FOB to the MAX !!!!
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 am
that is really ridiculous!!!!!!……how come that she became a binibining pilipinas if she didnt knw how to speak!!!!?/……I think she needs more practice before she joined that pageant! u knw what janina? ur sooo beatiful, but I think u need more brain than beauty, because were not just proud of ourselves but also we are proud in all the aspects we have……
March 30th, 2008 at 3:26 am
Jane, please learn, this is how to write and speak English properly, dear.
“That is really ridiculous. Why did she become a Miss Philippines if she didn’t know how to speak?
I think she needed more practice before she chose to participate in that pageant.
You know what Janina? You are so beautiful. However, brains is more important than beauty.
We should not just place importance in just our physical attributes, but of all aspects of our being.”
March 30th, 2008 at 3:38 am
Philippines, in Hawaii, the Hawaiians complain that they lost their language and culture. TRUE…
Now, compare the poverty level between Hawaii and the Philippines. In Hawaii, they don’t have slum-cities around Honolulu.
English was developing quite well. In fact, in 1946, the Philippines had the second strongest economy in Asia. Then, Tagalog was NOT even spoken in 50% of the archipelago. English was used as the instruction in schools. It might have developed into more than what it has become. If you look at it, Tagalog, only benefited the rich and affluent people of Manila. Do you think the people of Metro Manila see the “provinicanos” as their equals? Nope, that is why god created Filipino-Americans to berate the tagalog speakers of Manila.
Remember this, as beautiful and rich of a Filipina as Janina is, she will always be looked down upon by Filipino-Americans because of her terrible english alone. Money and beauty does not equalize an FOB with even the ugliest Filipino-American.
March 30th, 2008 at 4:14 am
Remember, Tagalog is a second language in most parts of the Philippines EXCEPT Metro Manila. It is only a first language in Manila. If English were still the medium of instruction in all the schools, than Tagalog would be a second language in Manila too.
Maybe then, those people from Manila would not look down at people from the provinces.
March 30th, 2008 at 4:25 am
I would place more importance for my family to eat, and my kids have jobs when they finish school, than focusing so fuckin’ much on a national identity.
70% of the people of Hawaii are of Asian descent. Filipino, Japanese, Chinese and Korean are the Hawaiian-Asians. They all speak English. They all do not live in poverty. They “blame” the English language and the United States for their high standard of living. What a pity…
Do you think they give a damn about being able to speak Filipino, Japanese, Korean or Chinese? They have jobs, food, money in the bank and careers if they chose to. Get this, less than 0.5% of the Hawaiian population live under the poverty level. Do they really need a cultural identity.
Keep looking for your identity Filipinos. While your people are starving and bickering of what language to use in schools in 2008, blame English for ruining your evolution for a pure culture. Meanwhile, figure out a way to feed the 20 million people who live in your slums.
By the way, Marcos, Estrada, Aquino, Ramos, and Macapagal, was their first language English or Tagalog. They have “nothing” to do with the impoverished and corrupt economy of the present day Philippines? Or is it solely Spain and America’s fault…
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
omg…. that’s so ridiculous, she dont know to talk english… she more practice.. and y did she win.. maybe they llet her win ’cause she’s beutiful…. she needs brain more than beaty.. and don’t laugh much. its so annoying and emmbarassing.. god…
April 19th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Huy Admin ,
Check uyour grammar isa ka pa …hahahahah
April 19th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
it’s does’nt not don’t lol
April 19th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Huy Fate
Isa ka pa check your grammarization…whrer did u education?
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:49 pm
LISTEN U ALL WE ARE NOT ALL WELL VERSED IN ENGLISH. YES SHE DIDNT MAKE SENSE BUT SHE TRIED . NONE OF US WERE BORN ENGLISH SPEAKING RIGHT AWAY. SOMEHOW WE ALL WENT TRHOUGH AND STARTED IN STEP 1. MAYBE U ARE ALL SMART THEREFORE TEACH HER.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:50 am
give her a break u all. she’s pretty and dumb . could she be the equivalent of the dumb blonde?
August 12th, 2008 at 7:35 am
To all you folks saying that Philippines would somehow become a rich country by learning English– do you realize how stupid this idea is? The vast majority of the world’s richest countries are not English-speaking– they’re places like Japan, China, Germany, Korea, Taiwan, France and some Arab countries. They use their native languages like Japanese and Korean for education!
Philippines should do the same. Wasting even more time on English is worthless– instead, we should work harder to provide high-quality education in Filipino. When it comes to foreign languages, English should be one of them, so should Spanish, so should German (language of science), so should Japanese. Maybe Arabic for us. And besides, in 25 years we’ll all be speaking Chinese.