Binibining Pilipinas 2014 National Costume Competition

Julian Aurine Flores

Mary Ainjely Manalo

Joanna Angelica Romero

Parul Shah

Hanna Mariz Dela Guerra

 

Anabel Christine Tia

Aiza Faeldonia

Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach

Joy Antonette Diaz

Shauna Indra Salina Curran

Laura Victoria Lehmann

Sarah Jireh Asido

Kris Tiffany Janson

Emma Mary Tiglao

Kimverlyn Suiza

Zahara Mae Soriano

Diana Arevalo

Ellore Noelle Punzalan

Mae Liezel Ramos

Kenneth Santiago

Racquel Kabigting

Mary Anne Bianca Guidotti

Nichole Marie Manalo

Ednornance Agustin

Mary Jean Lastimosa

Hanna Sheena Manuel

Hannah Ruth Sison

Carla Jenina Cabrera Lizardo

Krischelle Halili

Joy Marie Gangan

Angelique Celine De Leon

Jeslyn Santos

Gabrielle Erika Tilokani

Leonalyn Dela Cruz

Yvette Marie Santiago

Krystal Alonday

Vanessa Saliba

Janine Asanion

Ladylyn Riva

Vessica Sambo

Venus Raj, Bea Rose Santiago, Mutya Datul, Ariella Arida and Cindy Miranda

40 of the loveliest women from all over the country rocked the runway at the Binibining Pilipinas 2014 Fashion Show at the Smart Araneta Coliseum on March 6, 7 PM.

Audiences hotly anticipated who will follow the fabulous footsteps of Shamcey’s Tsunami Walk, Janine’s Cobra Walk, Ariella’s Ariba Walk and Johanna’s Salagubang walk, and sashay their way into representing the Philippines in the world’s most prestigious beauty pageants.

It was a fashion extravaganza like no other, with a display of elegance and grace from the 40 Binibining Pilipinas 2014 candidates donning cultural dresses in the National Costume competition. Then the girls showed off their fierce walk and strutted down the Big Dome’s catwalk clad in sexy JAG jeans and accessories from the Binibini collection.

The Fashion Show was only one of the many exciting activities on the lead up to the Binibining Pilipinas Grand Coronation Night on March 30. The ladies will be launching their Swimsuit Photo Exhibit at the Gateway Cinema Lobby on March 15 and will be holding the much-awaited Parade of Beauties around the Araneta Center on March 22. The 40 candidates will also take part in various charitable missions and outreach programs under Binibining Pilipinas Charities Inc and its partners.

The Binibining Pilipinas 2014 pageant is presented by the Araneta Center, ABS-CBN, PLDT Home, Jag Jeans, Avon, Megaworld Properties, Manhattan Garden City, Titan Watches, Pizza Hut, Sofitel Hotel, David’s Salon, J.A.C Motors, Picture City, Gold’s Gym, Dale Carnegie Training, Charter Ping An, Entrepreneur School of Asia and Raymond Saldana Photography.

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A Controversial Star CS rumored to be the girl of one of The Bosses TB really does enjoy the privileges of being the ‘It Girl.’ Given the length of her affair with TB, there is no doubt that CS enjoys all the privileges of someone her status.

CS was reported to be hurting when she was expecting, but failed to get a plum role. But those in the know say that in spite of such disappointment, CS is quite confident of her status under the able handling of TB. After all, she knows just how crazy he is over her.

For one, CS is reportedly allowed visits to the private quarters of the low-profile TB. Given his sensitive position, TB is quite circumspect when it comes to his private dealings. Yet certainly, there are always exceptions to the rule.

In one of her visits to TB's, as CS was leaving the unit, she suddenly saw A Girl AG about to go to the same unit where she just came from. Expectedly, their eyes met – and stared at each other. CS thus asked AG - do I know you, who are you?

Not liking CS’ tone of asking, AG shot back – and who are you?

CS snapped back – who are you?

AG: Who are you?

CS, as if wanting to ignite a fight: Who are you? Hmmm…you must be one of the girls in TB's stable who regularly comes here, right?

Shocked by what she heard, AG slapped CS hard. CS slapped her back.

Until they were alternately slapping each other already.

Fortunately, TB and his staff came to separate the two ladies who were at each other like mad dogs. What they heard from the staff floored them. It was then when CS and AG realized who was who.

But CS was more shocked than anyone - couldn’t believe she just slapped TB's daughter!

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Makati is 'Selfie Capital of the World' - TIME

A map by TIME Magazine showing Makati as the "Selfie Capital of the World." Each yellow dot in the map, designed by TIME's Alexander Ho, represents one selfie taken recently over the course of a ten-day period. Image courtesy of www.time.com.

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The city of Makati, the Philippines' financial center, has been dubbed by TIME Magazine as the "Selfie Capital of the World."

"An examination of hundreds of thousands of selfies—the low-fi, self-shot photographs that are intensely popular among younger social media users—suggests that the city, part of metropolitan Manila and home to 500,000 people, produces more selfies per capita than any other city in the world," TIME Magazine's Chris Wilson said regarding Makati, the nation's business center.

Pasig City also joined Makati on top of the TIME list.

The TIME study, which covered 459 cities and was built using a database of more than 400,000 Instagram photos tagged with the term "selfie" that also included geographic coordinates, revealed that Makati and Pasig cities have 258 selfie-takers per 100,000 people.

Cebu City also made it to the top 10, ranking 9th with 99 selfie-takers per 100,000 people.

Below are the top ten cities in the world which produce the most selfies, according to TIME:

1. Makati City & Pasig, Philippines: 258 selfie-takers per 100,000 people

2. Manhattan, New York: 202 selfie-takers per 100,000 people

3. Miami, Florida: 155 selfie-takers per 100,000 people

4. Anaheim & Santa Ana, California: 147 selfie-takers per 100,000 people

5. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: 141 selfie-takers per 100,000 people

6. Tel Aviv, Israel: 139 selfie-takers per 100,000 people

7. Manchester, England: 114 selfie-takers per 100,000 people

8. Milan, Italy: 108 selfie-takers per 100,000 people

9. Cebu City, Philippines: 99 selfie-takers per 100,000 people

10. George Town, Malaysia: 95 selfie-takers per 100,000 people

Methodology

The TIME said the photos from which the list was based were downloaded from the Instagram API in two sets of five days, from January 28 to February 2, 2014 and March 3 to 7, 2014. Data for each day consisted "of the 24-hour period from midnight to midnight to account for all time zones equally."

The 402,197 Instagram photos tagged "selfie" included geographic coordinates. TIME noted that the data "only account for a fraction of all selfies uploaded during that time since the majority of photos do not include a location."

"For every city in the world of at least 250,000 residents, we then counted the number of selfies taken within 5 miles and divided by the population of that city," TIME said.

TIME said that while the metric of "people who take selfies per capita" is far from a perfect measure, "it was far and away the most comprehensive means of comparing the 459 world cities that turned up at least 25 individual users in the database."

Other than the penchant for selfies, TIME said smartphone adoption rates and median income are also considered factors.

"As such, this list tends to favor regions just outside major urban areas," TIME said.

TIME also noted that not all photos tagged with the term "selfie" were actual selfies, and that informal tests showed that vast majority of the photos were of a single person. There were also attempts to find international versions of the word "selfie," "but none of the suggested translations showed up in any appreciable volume."

In cases where cities near each other were combined on the list, TIME explained that photos were matched using the "nearest neighbor" algorithm that found the nearest city with at least 250,000 residents.

"This means that, even within the fairly tight radius of 5 miles from the center of a city, some photos are counted which were not physically taken in that city," TIME said.

"All of our tests suggested this was an acceptable tradeoff for the speed of this method of geocoding, which also serves to group the innermost suburbs with the city that they surround."