Ms. Earth 2008 Winners
Last night, I watched the delayed telecast of the coronation of the Ms. Earth 2008 Beauty Pageant, with little hope that our country's representative, Ms. Philippines Karla Paula Henry, to bring home the coveted crown. Yet with some stoke of luck, she had managed to advance up to the Top 4 of the competition, with Ms. Mexico, Ms. Brazil, and Ms. Tanzania in the final question and answer round.
Of course, I can't imagine how did that happen since as as far as I recall, all Philippine Representatives in the said pageant always goes home with only the sash they held! Besides, isn't it that Bb. Pilipinas judges favored Janina San Miguel to-be-then Bb. Pilipinas World 2008 representative, than most of the beautiful, talented and intelligent competitors in the said pageant including her; with which gave her the decision to jump over to try her luck in the Ms. Philippines Earth Beauty Pageant? Anyway, enough of the former issue with the beauty queen who stepped down as a representative, and I'm going to focus on what had happened in the Ms. Earth 2008.
The coronation of Ms. Earth 2008, was held at Clark Expo Ampi theater Pampanga, Philippines yesterday with a lot of foreign judges ranging from different respected fields to oversee the competition to promote fairness and equality in choosing the successor of the reigning Ms. Earth, Jessica Trisko from Canada. Since, pre-judging had already taken place the top 16 were easily chosen and from there the top 4 would be selected who would represent the four prestigious titles enveloped in the competition: Fire, Water, Air and Earth. To determine who will be the next Ms. Earth, a final, uniform and single question must be answered by the remaining 4 contestants to be judged accordingly be the respected board. The final question given to the remaining four contestants was something like this: If you were given the opportunity to speak to the newly elected president of the United States, Barack Obama, what would you tell to regarding the present environmental condition plaguing the world?
From there, poise, intelligence and grace will be the determining factor in choosing the next Ms. Earth. And, I'm too glad to say that Ms. Philippines representative had managed to stay alert and poised to answer such trivial question leading her to her ultimate goal, the Ms. Earth crown.
The titles of the final four were as follows:
- Ms. Earth Fire - Ms. Brazil
- Ms. Earth Water - Ms. Mexico
- Ms. Earth Air - Ms. Tanzania
- Ms. Earth - Ms. Philippines
