Bb. Pilipinas 2012 candidate #12 Ayelee Marie Dasalla
Nice profile shot of Ayelee
Will Ayelee turn the tide from being a ‘biggest loser’ to a ‘biggest winner’?
The next two weeks will see if she is destined for bigger things in Bb. Pilipinas 2012. 🙂
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Here's looking at you, kid. Happy Birthday!
Here’s a BIG shout-out to my new favorite Kapuso, Benjamin Alves, who is turning 23 today.
Happy Birthday!!! 😀
Courtesy of Mercator TV
You can visit Benjamin’s Official Facebook Fanpage HERE. You can also tweet him ‘Happy Birthday’ @hellomrbenjamin.
Bb. Pilipinas 2012 candidate #15 Elaine Kay Moll
Elaine Kay Moll can always lay claim to the fact that she is the tallest candidate in Bb. Pilipinas 2012 representing Northern Samar (though she was born in Buhi, Camarines Sur). Whiffs taller than 5’10”, she has the height envied upon by the other girls who have to contend themselves with wearing really tall heels (or platformed heels) to minimize being dwarfed beside her. A former member of the women’s basketball team of NU (National University) Bulldogs, she underwent some major (non-invasive) transformation from shooting hoops and wearing Nike Airs to walking the runway and fitting elegant evening gowns and swimwear.
Aces & Queens should be given full credit in molding Elaine’s beauty queen potentials. She may not have the most entrancing face among the 30 delegates, but she scores high in other areas. Her charm is the type that wouldn’t grab at you in an instant. Instead, she kind of projects the aura of Catherine Jane Brummitt (BPI1984) whose beauty grows on another individual after spending some time in her company.
I heard from the grapevine that Elaine is one of the favorites of BPCI Head Stella Marquez de Araneta. The latter must love her height (which cannot be negotiated in any humanly possible way), innocent looks and compliant ways. But then again, she needs to do her part in impressing the judges because SMA can only do so much in sounding them off.
How high will Elaine Kay Moll move up in the competition? Will she give the constant favorites a real fight for one of the titles?
Do express your thoughts, dear readers. 😉
Watch the Bb. Pilipinas 2012 Official Candidates during the Parade of Beauties at Araneta Center last Sunday, March 25. The videos are below courtesy of OPMB Worldwide (opmbvids).
I’m sure you’ll have a field day looking at those painfully #@%!<&?*% headdresses. LOL!
Bb. Pilipinas 2012 candidate #9 Mary Jean Lastimosa in a JC Buendia original during the PAL 71st Anniversary Fashion Show
MJ during the Operation Smile activity of Bb. Pilipinas 2012 (Photo credit: OPMB Worldwide)
What else can she offer beyond the now-famous killer body and highly-trained pageant disposition? A much improved (and less grandstanding) performance in Q&A possibly? Whatever it is, she needs to work double time because – just like Janine Tugonon – the risks are very high if she ends up just matching (or worse, not reaching) her 2nd Runner-Up finish last year. Methinks only one of them will become a big winner. MJ or Janine?
Place your bets, my dear readers. See if MJ Lastimosa will take it all the way in Bb. Pilipinas 2012! 😉
Bb. Pilipinas 2012 candidate #18 Janine Tugonon (Photo credit: OPMB Worldwide)
Janine during the PAL 71st Anniversary fashion show wearing a Rhett Eala creation.
The 5’9″ (as per the candidates’ profiles) Janine has come a long way from her growing up years in Bataan to her stay in UST where she finished a degree in Pharmacy to joining Bb. Pilipinas (and placing fourth) last year up to the present where she is definitely eyeing one of the crowns on April 15.
Janine during the Bb. Pilipinas 2012 screenings earlier last month (Photo credit: Fritzgerald)
Will Janine realize her dream of wearing a Bb. Pilipinas crown on her head? Or will Mary Jean Lastimosa grab one instead?
The heat is on as we approach the countdown to Bb. Pilipinas 2012! 😉
Here are more images (courtesy of OPMB Worldwide/PaoPao) of the Bb. Pilipinas 2012 Parade of Beauties held yesterday afternoon around the Araneta Center. The headdresses really need to go. They do not only distract the attention from the candidates’ faces, but also cheapen their total presentation (Bella and the Bellestars, anyone?). There must be something more tasteful to dress up their heads, like a sole orchid tucked behind their right ear maybe? Anyways, enjoy the photos.
Annalie Forbes
Ayelee Marie Dasalla
Chloe Zanardi
Gina Joy Howell
Giselle Angelica Munoz
Janine Tugonon
Liezl Alcantara
Marie Virgenia Peter
Mary Fer Baliquig
Roxane Joy Jesalva
Katrina Dimaranan and Ayelee Marie Dasalla
Anna Czarinah Buenviaje
Nicole Schmitz
Now, aren’t these ladies the best troupers ever? If I were a candidate, I would ceaselessly cringe at the thought of parading around the commercial area wearing those eyesore of headdresses. Okay, enough with the bashing of fake flowers and peacock-colored feathers. 😉
The good news is that the Bb. Pilipinas 2012 Parade of Beauties was held earlier today, despite the threat of inclement weather constantly hovering over the metropolis since yesterday.
The better news is that the Bb. Pilipinas 2012 Official Candidates donned safer outfits instead of two-piece swimwears with wrap-around skirts thinly veiling their waist down. Of course, the tacky headdresses had to stay.
The best news is that all of them looked their loveliest in black and amply-covered one-piece pseudo-dancesuits that, despite the gloomy color for an afternoon activity, added a tinge of elegance in what used to be a flesh-driven presentation of the ladies.
‘Nuff said. Enjoy the pictures courtesy of OPMB Worldwide. More to come!
Meanwhile, the shots below were taken by Jake Arevalo:
🙂
I just want to make a quick blog about the winner of Miss Thailand World 2012 held at the Centara Grand World. She is Vanessa Muangkod (center in the photo above), 20 and standing 1.74m. She will represent Thailand in Miss World 2012 to be held in Ordos come August 18.
Today, at exactly 4pm, make sure that you’re at the Araneta Center or within the vicinity of the place because all 30 Bb. Pilipinas 2012 Official Candidates will be paraded around on top of sports cars (and wearing their identical swimwears) – a traditional activity of the pageant. The fleshy exposure of the ladies outside a controlled environment doesn’t always sit well with me, but I’m no party pooper so let the activity run its normal course. I just hope that the organizers will allow them to wear a wrap-around skirt (however thin) for more protection.
I’m sure fans, supporters, oglers and kibitzers alike will be around to take photos and shoot videos of the ladies. So get your digicams and videocams ready because it will definitely be a fun afternoon, barring any form of weather disturbances of course. 😉
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