I am no literary writer, but I thought I’d give it a try to drive a point. I am not doing this to encourage an endless string of guessing game among you, dear readers. But just read on, I reckon.
Once upon a time in the small kingdom of East Philippians where a considerable number of beautiful maidens live, Queen Seraphina decided to hold a competition where all the loveliest of the young and unmarried will be sent to different faraway lands in search of rich and handsome princes who will hopefully fall in love with all or one of them to be their wives/wife, become Princess/es themselves and return home with riches that will forge a union of the bigger Kingdom with theirs.
Fortunately for one of the chosen ladies – Moricia Dalesandro in particular – she captured the heart of Crown Prince Alonso of Kingdom Gaberico, a place which – while not the wealthiest – still enjoyed a relatively favorable recognition in the Union of Thrones.
After their marriage, Moricia was crowned Princess and was given a decent homecoming to East Philippians to share her achievement.
Two full moons have passed, now Princess Moricia was already enjoying her newfound life as royalty. It was then that her true colors started to show. Prince Alonso discovered how lazy and slow-moving his wife really is. She was such a slob that assigned servants would constantly pick up after her trail of trash – unfinished bottles of wine, rotting fruits, leftover desserts and an assortment of half-bitten sweet delights that only an ostentatious person lacking in good taste would do. The worst part was when she discovered the forbidden joy of Taiomara – a potion exclusive only to select allies of the Wizard.
Taiomara always left Princess Moricia in a blissful state of relaxation that made her more indolent and slothful than usual. And this affected her required royal visits and public engagements to the dismay of Prince Alonso. She got unreasonably bossy and irritable to the servants. She was even caught flirting in the garden with a visiting Knight from a neighboring Kingdom. The King and Queen of Gaberico were alarmed to no end. And for a perfectly good reason more than anything else – they know that regular intake of the potion can cause its user to be unable to get pregnant or worse, barren forever.
Henceforth, Prince Alonso was ordered by the King and Queen to break the marriage and return Princess Moricia to East Philippians. But ever the man with a heart of gold, he requested that his first wife be saved from embarrassment. He implored them to allow her to retain the Princess title after parting ways – a plain separation. After all, they only wanted to get rid of her presence in the Kingdom. And with the rule of allowing more than one wife for the Prince still in place, he could still find a more ideal Princess to start a family with.
And so, Princess Moricia acquiesced in the decision. She owned up to her faults, asked for forgiveness and sadly returned to East Philippians where she started to live a life of secrecy. Only her immediate family members and closest friends knew the real story behind what happened in the Kingdom of Gaberico. She was able to continue with a more renewed sense of responsibility in her daily existence, however more austere it has become.
From time to time, she would get in touch with Prince Alonso on more civil terms, but that was as far as the intermittent encounters went.
If it was any consolation, she can still be called Princess Moricia – a title whose usefulness has dramatically worn off through the years.
End
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Sometimes, truth can be stranger than this short work of fiction. In real life, a Princess Moricia can be anywhere – here in the Philippines or other parts of Asia or the US or Europe.
The moral lesson, thus, is not to take blessings and/or rewards for granted. Aside from being grateful, it is also best to show one’s best behavior – both in public and in private.
* Credits to the owners of the various sketches used above.
normannorman.com 
Admin, may comment du’n sa kabila tungkol sa isa’ng naging kinatawan natin sa isa’ng minor….
Nag-drugs din siya?
OMG! She’s one of my favorites pa naman… 😦
Kaya pala nahirapan makakuha ng VISA nung crowning the next winner. 😦
Sino sya?
Not married yet… winner ng 2nd tier title…
25-30 years old… hmmmm
This is hard…
I believe that this is Norman’s euphemistic way of describing the story of a past BB Pil winner. She won one of the coveted crowns but resigned halfway thru her reign. Rumors circulated that she was actually fired by the organizers of the pageant due to unprofessionalism. According to her mentors, they tried hard to prepare her for the international competetion through intense training to prove her worth in the international beauty contest so that she could justify her victory in the local pageant but she blew that chance because of her allegedly unprofessional behavior. Gets nyo na mga baks?
Serge, I would say that your interpretation is 80% in the right direction. The remaining 20% I will just keep to myself.
With clues from everyone, google provided me a name 😁
Tito Norman , the fact that no one from the parties involved have confirmed anything means the story is still a strange fiction. Who was your source ? Some Pinoy DH?
I don’t really need confirmation from any parties, Fabian. Consider it a catharsis.
NASA LV purse ka ba ni Janina SM so u were privy to everything that went on ?
Feel ko si Venus Raj itey!
East Philippines – Bicol?
Few years over half Ruffa’s age – 31 years old
Nag-asawa na ba si Venus?!
Hindi pa naman diba?
Ok.
Sirit na!
Janina San Miguel?
This story alludes to a fairly recent winner of an international pageant.
Could not perform duties but organization was kind enough not to dethrone her.
Hmmmmm.
Sino kaya?
We need C2F here
@ Fabian Reyes Look below, po. 🙂
its a filipina title holder from one of the smaller pagents
had the same guess, ruffa g… married a “moneyed” foreigner and now based here.. and Norman, what a description of your fictional character.. “ostentatious person lacking in good taste..” LOL!!!
Not Ruffa at all. 🙂
Tito Norman ,
Your lips are sealed .
Would u get sued for libel if U spilled it ?
AC po Tito Norman?
Tito Norman,
Did you have a bad experience with Ruffa to inspire you to write this ? I only hear good things abt Ruffa as pertains to her interactions with fans and people around her .
Fabian, the story’s the farthest from Ruffa. She wasn’t even inside my head. Hint: someone who’s a few years over half her age. Ruffa is now 45. Take it from there.
Around 25-27 years old? Hmmm…
Parang me kilala akong world din na foreigner napangasawa… Ahh w8… eto ba yung nagquit kuno kasi nasa ospital yung lolo? Yung hindi makakain ng salad kaya kinain yung ulam ng katulong?
Is this abt Ruffa G?
@ Fabian Reyes OHMYGAS! Honga, no…. 🙂
Iniisip ko, “East Philippians/Philippines”. ‘Eh, eastern Visayas, ergo Annabelle Rama.
Ta’s, si @ Closer2Fame, pa…. World, daw.
Which got me thinking….
What has become oy Ylmaz Bektas?
I wonder what a young foreigner with no formal education would do in Turkey ? She spent most of her formative years in the Philippines where everything was served to her on a silver platter .
Same thing with Miriam,,, who left her glorious life in Manila to settle down with a foreigner in a foreign country ? What was she going to do there ? Did she even think about that ?
At least Janice is married to a Pinoy and lives in a friendly country ? I hope she’s doing something to further up her education
Not at all
Blind item ba ito Tito Norms?
Sounds famillar…
I heard this story before…
Connected ba ito sa World?
Yung tatay ba nung Prince e business magnate?
It depends on how you want to read it, C2F. Remove the royalty parts and make it more contemporary.
Sorry I can’t read it
@ Norman Mr. Blogger, sabi ni @ Fabian Reyes, huwag niyo na raw ulit gagamitin ‘yang font na ‘yan. ‘Yang ginamit sa story, na medyo italicized at manipis. 🙂
Hahaha ok
On the brighter side,
Remdesivir vaccine is already on the Phase 3 of Clinical Trial and it was already approved by FDA for emergency situation. I hope this is the holy grail that world is waiting for!
It was sort of expedited! I hope it will not have any side effects just like the DengVaxia!
Oh ayan na, mga Vekla! May silver lining na ulit ang pageantry! The next question is, ngayong bankarote ang WME at lumalangoy sa utang, tuloy ba ang Miss Universe?
Have u seen the studies ?
I don’t think it’s something to be excited abt
But anything is better than nothing
@ ClaiRe IbbeTson ‘Ika nga, if you stop swimming, you sink and surely shall you drown.
🙂
Creditors will not be happy if Endeavor just waits for a knight in shining silver armor (or Prince Alonso, in this case) to come out of the woodwork to save them. TULOY! Postpone lang….
@ scorg is right, though. A pageant of MU’s scope CANNOT just be done on-line. Dapat LIVE.
It will all depend on how CoV19 plays out in the USA. Btw, Ms. New Mexico is LOVE. Puwede!!!
@claire
Remdesivir is not a vaccine. It is an antiviral drug. Totally different mechanism.
I did not see the word vaccine there
U r right , it’s not a vaccine
i don’t think it’s a vaccine. It’s a drug that could potentially help treat COVID. so far, the effectiveness is just shortening recovery from hospitalizations by 30%.
As an analogy to contemporary beauty contests, let this story be a reminder to the girls who aspire to become beauty titlists that being beauty queen is not only being physically pretty, but more importantly, it is also being internally beautiful for them to inspire people and leave lasting impression to the people they inspire.
Mr. Tinio, let me guess….
Niece/nephew did the sketches. Very, very nice. Our complements.
🙂
This is a powerful story of redemption and freedom from oppressive exile similar to the Exodus, a narrative of someone who, due to gender, culture, and circumstance, was powerless and invisible, but was transformed by God to be a pivotal, formidable heroine. And it all began with a beauty pageant!
NOTE: Wrong placement of this thread. It should be below my main commentary. Sorry!
Norman, I thought you are narrating a similar story as Esther’s, the poor beautiful girl in exile who married the king of her adoptive country when she won the first beauty pageant ever recorded—in the Bible. @Jay ThePogi and @Lina Fang referenced this in your previous post. More than 100 years after the Babylonian captivity under Nebuchadnezzar who scattered the Jewish people thoughout the Persian empire, King Xerxes I (486-465 B.C.), decreed to find a replacement new queen via an elaborate beauty contest of all the kingdom’s beautiful maidens. From all over the 127 provinces, beautiful unmarried young women are brought to the palace for the king to select his new queen. The reps from the various “APs” included Esther, an orphan and a concealed Jewish exile to the Persian capital city. After a 12-month pre-pageant “beautiful transformations”, where the “finalists” were perfumed with myrrh and allocated certain foods and servants, Esther was adjudged the winner. She became the queen.
This is a powerful story of redemption and freedom from oppressive exile similar to the Exodus, a narrative of someone who, due to gender, culture, and circumstance, was powerless and invisible, but was transformed by God to be a pivotal, formidable heroine. And it all began with a beauty pageant.
The title says it all, scorg. The actual truth is stranger than fiction.
Norman, your fictional character seems like a depiction of the deposed wife of King Xerxes whom Esther, the Biblical heroine, replaced. Indeed, in this world we should not take our blessings for granted, and our gratitude is best shown by our exemplary behaviour everywhere and every time.