Exactly one week ago, Miss Kagay-an 2010 was held at The Atirum. with 12 lovely candidates vying for the prestigious title. It was a decision of two, whether to attend my company's Pop fiesta concert or watch the pageant night. Oh well, the rain didn't stop pouring that day since 3 in the afternoon, I opted to watch the pageant night just because the concert arena had to be in open air.
So here comes the big night. It started with opening prayer, cultural numbers and the opening act. The first part of the event was on hiatus. Where the crowd gone wild when VMayor Acenas zipped his way down from the 2nd level of the atrium to the pageant stage. He opened his speech and boast CdeO to be the adventure capital of the Phils (really?) and so on....
Okey stripped down on the core of the night. It has always been a pageant failure when there is so much plugging, killing the time, dead air segments, corny hosts icebreakers and whatsoever. I happened to comment on how the show came from 10 to 3 ratings. mygoodness. These are just my judgments.
4. The stage was like a huge mural of coral. It's like that they borrowed ocean park for a night.
3. Repetitive of the sidecourt hosts speeches. It was cyclic!
2. The Gowns! My Goodness the gowns. The moment when the first candidate came out, I knew it its gonna be a 2009 rundown (if you know what I mean). In my opinion you just can't let the other lady wear The Same Exact Design of the other. I'm pretty sure that some of the judges are dismayed of the long gown competition. The excitement had just gone with the wind. Remember this is a Beauty Pageant not a Fashion Show. Please. You can do better.
1. What made the Pageant night even become tedious, is the Host. He's by far the most undecided, not-ready-to-become-host-of-the-night. I feel sorry for him. Didn't the organizers brief him days before? Because as I remember, during the 1st Q&A segment, he just made up an impromptu queries. Looking in to his papers back and forth and thinking if this would be the best question to ask. Mygoodness. You can do better.
Local Beauty Pageants or even nationals are still stucked on the old tradition. Maybe next time we should be keen enough to adopt the style of how International Beauty Pageants do their airing. Not so much flaws, quick and alert, and go down to the core.
And good thing is, we were rooting for Ms Jeminah Ferrer to win and she did! JEM for the win!
