Apriel of Cebu Province
Cebu Province benefits well from the support of Miss Universe Philippines 2020 Apriel Smith in encouraging all the backliners (read: non-frontliners) to gather donations in support of all the people directly exposed to the health hazards of the COVID19 virus during the ECQ. While progressive as a place in general, the sheer size, location and population of Cebu is significantly exposed to the ills of the pandemic, just like the key areas of NCR, Davao and Cental/Southern Luzon.
So with the force behind Cebu Backliners, Apriel is spreading the group’s goals to #BeABackliner and #SupportForFrontliners. This dusky beauty may not be out there in the line of fire, so to speak. But her immense help is greatly appreciated by fellow Cebuanos.
And while we are in the subject of helping and doing charitable works, Apriel is also using her influence to get more patronage for the Cebu City Mobile Market in support of small businesses that have been affected by the lockdown. This is in cooperation with the Market Operations Division of the Office of the City Administrator of Cebu.
Apriel is raring to go back to the national pageant. But she is keeping her discipline in rein amidst the crisis. She continues with the health and fitness goals to be the best that she can be when judgment time comes in the last quarter of 2020.
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She’s more beautiful with light make up.
Sorry i don’t like her in that official photo. Mukha syang drawing.
ATTITUDE. That’s all I can say. Chweh!
Statuesque. She reminds me of Naomi Campbell. I think she has a good chance of winning the crown.
NAOMI: “Don’t compare her to me, EVER! She’s not on my level, and she’ll never be on my level!” 😝
“Cugma” is love? “Nindot” is beauty?
“Anindot ang Pilipina… Naglibog ako”…., once sang Pilita Corrales. 🙂
(Pasensiya na po. Tagalog kasi ako. I try to learn….)
Apriel, I now realize, is our answer to Ariana Miyamoto. I&WP already lionized her back in 2016. I doubt we will come across another black candidate of her caliber anytime soon. If MUP is looking to field our first ever “negra-ay” (negra Pinay) rep, THIS IS HER so do it NOW.
I like that her “Beyond the Coastlines” video showed something of the rugged-lush-cascading interior of her island. Indeed, look beyond the coast and you discover this aspect of Cebu only quite recently shared to the world. Up at Osmena Peak, it can get chilly-foggy-wet like Tagaytay city, as warm moist air from the sea is thrust skyward by the karst limestone… There, Malaysia-variety chrysanthemums are grown, the Visayas’ answer to the rose farms of Bahong, Benguet (which makes good money from the annual Mothers’ Day observance, except this year, of course).
Mr. Tinio, I read in local pageant page that ECQ might be retained in NCR, Tagalog Southern Luzon (4A), & Visayas Central (7), which includes Cebu Province.
Speaking of “Cebu Province”…
I committed an error. I commented in an Indonesian pageant page that Apriel is “Cebu City”. This post confirmed my mistake there. “Cebu City” is Piczon, and “Mandaue City” is Tracy MP?