Veering away from a common concept that ‘beauty always promises but never gives anything’, S.E Productions, on its 5th year in the Kingdom, has once again spearheaded the Search for Ginoo and Binibining Pilipinas Saudi Arabia 2008. The search, anchored on the beauty and personality of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) in Saudi Arabia, opens the door to high-class respectability despite of the hardship working abroad.
A former Mutya ng Pilipinas aspirant, a Tea Boy, a high school student, a sales supervisor, A band singer and a two-time winner of male beauty pageant were among the possible contestants from Riyadh to the much awaited prestigious beauty and personality search in the Kingdom.
S.E. Productions screening of official contestants to the Ginoo and Binibining Pilipinas Saudi Arabia 2008 ends last Friday, August 8, 2008 at the Future Generation International School in Sulemania District Riyadh.
Noticeable among those who joined the screening was a former Mutya ng Pilipinas aspirant. Although she passed already the Mutya screening last year, she has to withdraw her candidacy due to her immediate deployment in Saudi Arabia. A very confident and has a good chance to be an official Binibini candidate, she hopes that her dream to win a beauty title will be possible in this year search in Saudi Arabia.
A handsome chinito, working as Tea Boy, has a good chance to be among the Ginoo official contestants. Shy but with sense of determination, one look into his eyes and every girl melts. Asked during the interviews about his past and present job, he informed the panel of screeners he was a dental assistant in the Philippines but never regret his work being a Tea Boy in Riyadh.
A run-away winner in two male beauty pageants (one in Jeddah in 2004 and the other one was the recent male search in Riyadh) determines that he can make it to be an official Ginoo candidate this year. This Ginoo doesn’t want to count his achievements, neither as titles nor positions, but considers them as blessings and an avenue to gain more friends while staying here in Saudi Arabia.
One of the guests during the screening phoned in his friend who is a vocalist of a famous band in Riyadh, to come to Future Gen without informing her of what was going on. She was caught flat-footed upon her arrival that without any persuasion, she was given an application to be filled out. Minutes later, she found herself answering questions from the panel of screening committee.
The rest of the aspirants were sales supervisors, jewelry setters, students, visual merchandisers, etc., went through a very tough and uptight interviews by the panel of screeners headed by Toastmasters Grand Champion and the director of the show, Ron Jacobe, Toastmaster Presidents Erik Tapales and Delfin Federico, G. Pilipinas Riyadh Jei-C Manuel and SE CEO Rani Basanta.
The official contestants from Riyadh will be known soon.
