Binibining Pilipinas Globe Jasmin Bungay. Image: INQUIRER.net/Armin P.
Adina Binibining Pilipinas Jasmin Bungay is set to fly the country’s colors in this year’s edition of The Miss Globe pageant in Albania. But for her, this will not be the first time that she will “represent” the Philippines in the international community. The 26-year-old Kapampangan lass said that as an overseas Filipino worker in the Middle East, she felt that it was her duty to paint a positive picture of the Philippines to people of different races that she encountered in her job.
“I spent five years in Dubai. And during those years, it already felt like I was representing the Philippines. Because I want the other nationalities, my friends, my colleagues, to have a high regard for the Philippines and for the Filipinos,” Bungay responded to INQUIRER.
net’s question during her send-off press conference held at the Quantum Skyview of Gateway Mall 2 at the Araneta City in Quezon City on Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 18. “Even in the way that I work, even in the way that I deal with them, speak with them, or whenever I speak about our culture and practice it, I made sure that they would have a good impression.
If they had a different take on the Filipinos, I make sure that I change it to something positive. So I think that alone prepared me. Because if then I felt like I was already representing the Philippines, that means that those experiences prepared me for this very amazing and momentous tim.