Pia’s promise

Woke up on Monday in time to see Pia Wurtzbach get into the Top 5 of the Miss Universe pageant. I haven’t been interested in the pageant since Miriam Quiambao mainly because I realized that through the years what has done us in is the inability to handle the question-and-answer portion with grace and smarts.

Smarts. It’s not even intelligence or learnedness that these pageants look for. Instead, if you look at who has won Miss Universe in the past, it’s always the contestant with a good head on her shoulders, unruffled by the questions thrown her way, because she is confident in what she knows.