Student Athlete Turned Beauty Queen: Bae Taphagan 2015 Confessions

March 2015 was a month I never expected to exist in a way it did. I grew up getting the attention of an enormous crowd when either Im playing volleyball with my team or speaking alone. I was either an athlete or a student leader. A beauty queen? "Such worthless reveries," that was me before March 2015.

I considered it a big joke seeing myself on a big stage ramping the tsunami walk of Shamcey Supsup or the Venus' walk. I used to mimic their catwalk in front of my friends in a funny way that everybody would really laugh at. But look what happened, it seemed that the joke was on me.

Either a joke or a dream, it really happened.

March 30, 2015 I was crowned as Santa Josefa's Bae Taphagan 2015. If you want to know more about Santa Josefa and its Taphagan Festival, you can read my previous blog entry.

I never admitted my self in such competition with the assumption of winning it. What do I have? Nothing.

There were 10 of us. 8 of them are all expereienced and really into this beauty pageant thing while the 2 of us had our first ever beauty pageant.

I was inspired rather than coerced to commit myself into such. It was my tito. He was the barangay captain and he chose me to choose this event. Then eventually it was everbody's choice. But me.

At first i kept on laughing on the idea of me wearing this crown plus the horrendous stilettos. It is just so hilarious that I cant help but laugh.

However, when I found all the other girls was working their assess off during the photoshoot and the rehearsals, i told myself, "I cant afford losing." If this would be my greatest social suicide, I want to do it my way. I was so in the zone with my game face on, I started to take the high heels seriously. I watched youtube videos and pulling all my strings together for this kind of game.

Then poof, it became coco crunch.  I never won any minor awards like Miss Flawess, Best in Swimwear, Best in Long Gown and all, but I was more than ready for that. I never aimed for those minor awards. I was after giving my family and all the people who've put their trust on me what they deserved. And so I them gave my everything.

Apparently, God was just so good that he provided me the adequate confidence I need. It was neither my beauty nor my brain. It was all grace-driven.

I won. I was crowned Bae Taphagan 2015. I never know how I did it, I just know what I currently have and utilized it as efficient and as effective as possible.

For all the girls down there who dreams to become the next Bae Taphagan, dont stop dreaming and believing. It will be all yours if you just make yourself ready and available for such responsibilities.

And for all the girls who are on the same age as mine, dont give too much attention to beauty because beauty is fleeting. Value knowledge. Pursue education. Know who you really are and be confident in everything that you do.

"For the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the greatest enemy of knowledge is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen  Hawking