These past few months we have been bombarded by this BURDENsome debacle. While the pageant itself is indeed a showcase (of mongrel half-breed Filipinos). They don't even have Filipino sounding names!) their wit, their talent, it is not the real world. Beauty pageants such as the Miss Cebu is nothing more than fluff, it is frivolity at its finest. Fine, so this Kris Tiffany Janson bagged the title, then what? Would her bagging the crown make this world a better place with her hand waving and this talk about "world peace, love, friendship" cliched rhetoric? Hell no.

Kimberly lost all because of a snafu (a lot of people especially in the bizarre-o world called the internet have been using the acronym SNAFU, most of them don't even realize that it means Situation Normal: All Fucked UP) with this perceived or alleged vote switching with one of the minor awards. Beauty pageants is nothing more than escapist entertainment for the depressed masses. Show us a little glitter and a little glamour and will clap our hands to the prettiest one whose tits would bounce better.

I find these talks of "switching awards" taxing to the senses, if it were an election, now that would be something else. But a pageant? Oh please! I have more fun watching catfights on YouTube as compared to this Burden character and her mother going ape-shit in the media as to how her daughter was cheated blah blah blah yada yada yada. Madame Doctora Burden, are you living up to your surname? It looks definitely like it.

It's just a pageant, plain and simple. There still lots of pageants for your daughter to join in if she still wants to (or up until she loses her luster due to age, marriage or childbirth), so you people are now going to file cases left and right? I'm no judge, but I'm a good judge of character, looks like you two don't have an iota of it. And yes, being second place is not tantamount to winning, that much I'll agree with, winners go home and fuck their boyfriends, second places get diddly squat.

I am no fan of our mayor, Tommy Osmena, but this time I will definitely have to agree with him when he said, "It's a waste of time. As a matter of fact, that was the worst over-exposed, ridiculous issue I've seen in all my years as mayor. will see her (Janson) and I will give her an award next year as an outstanding citizen. That to me is a conduct becoming of a Ms Cebu, dili pala-away (not seeking trouble). She could have done that because she is Miss Cebu. Miss Burden is only Miss Cellphone."

And with that remark, Dr. Burden (Kim's mom) cried foul. She bewailed at how insensitive and cruel the mayor was. The mayor in his candid and brutal lack of tact (which I love --sometimes), said that Janson (Miss Cebu 2009) has never issued any negative statements against anybody, not even to Kim Burden and her family. That in my book is the criterion of what a Miss Cebu should be, not this rampaging behemoth cry baby we keep on reading about in the papers. If there's one thing that the Burdens need to learn is that if they keep on making noise, everybody will get tired of your whiny crap. You think that the people will rally to your cause? What cause is that? You are merely giving us a headache with all this whining. We have better things to do, like changing the oil in my pick-up truck, or browsing through an old FHM magazine in the bathroom.

If I were mayor Tom, I would have aptly used these choice words from Scrubs :

"I know this is tough for you, what with you 
being psychotic and all..."