{"id":90,"date":"2008-08-04T04:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=90"},"modified":"2008-08-04T04:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T18:32:00","slug":"one-minute-with-maria-coronel-compiled-by-rod-dingle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"One Minute with Maria Coronel"},"content":{"rendered":"

compiled by Rod Dingle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maria Coronel<\/strong> is the winner of the very first Philippine Grand Fiesta\u2019s Miss Philippines-Australia Beauty Pageant (1989) held in Sydney. She bested more than 20 other candidates from the Philippine Community in Australia.\u00a0 She is now working as an IT Specialist for a Sydney-based International company. She is married to Mannix and they now have 3 beautiful young daughters.<\/p>\n

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When asked what is her claim to fame, Maria Coronel answered: \u201cI claim no fame. I am not famous at all. I live my life as anonymous and unknown as I could be.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a young girl, she wanted to be an astronaut. Her favourite cartoon heroine was Wonder Woman, saying that the crime fighter was an \u2018understated woman\u2019 who saves the world in a \u2018drop dead\u2019 super sexy outfit. Maria never made any attempt to dress up as Wonder Woman because she felt that she could not give justice to her costume.<\/p>\n

A sentimentalist, Maria has kept some personal items she had when she was young. Among them is a Casio piano given to her by her dad when she was still in school. She will be passing it on to her daughters when they get a bit older.<\/p>\n

She denies dancing in the shower but admits to singing like many of us. When asked if she ever sneaked out of the house without her parents knowing, her pert reply was \u201cNever, honestly!\u201d<\/p>\n

Her most unforgettable experience was the day when her eldest daughter was born. \u201cDidn’t think I had it in me to go through 15 hrs of labour, naturally and drug free. It would also be the funniest as it was then that I did all those tricks in the book for delivering a baby,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course it was my happiest.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fulfillment of every woman’s dream. To be a mother… I was so happy, I did it again. Super happy that I had twins the 2nd time around!\u201d Maria added.<\/p>\n

If she \u00a0had \u00a0the \u00a0power \u00a0to change \u00a0anything, she would choose to have only one religion in this world. She said \u201cthat way, there would be no war. People can live in harmony, believing in only One Supreme Being, and co-exist with no feeling of supremacy over the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

She \u00a0chose \u00a0the Pope, \u00a0if \u00a0given the opportunity to speak to a world leader. \u201cI would\u00a0 ask\u00a0 him\u00a0 to\u00a0 stop\u00a0 intervening with how people want to live their lives. God\u00a0 created\u00a0 all\u00a0 men\u00a0 as\u00a0 equals,\u00a0 so\u00a0 there\u00a0 should\u00a0 be\u00a0 no\u00a0 preference\u00a0 on whether people can be male, female, gay or bi [sexual].\u00a0 I\u2019d\u00a0 say live\u00a0 and let live. And as far as contraceptives \u00a0are concerned, better\u00a0 to\u00a0 take\u00a0 them\u00a0 and not\u00a0\u00a0 have\u00a0\u00a0 children\u00a0\u00a0 than\u00a0\u00a0 have\u00a0\u00a0 children\u00a0 and\u00a0\u00a0 find\u00a0 them\u00a0 roasted\u00a0 in\u00a0 the microwave or thrown out from a window.\u201d<\/p>\n

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compiled by Rod Dingle Maria Coronel is the winner of the very first Philippine Grand Fiesta\u2019s Miss Philippines-Australia Beauty Pageant (1989) held in Sydney. She bested more than 20 other candidates from the Philippine Community in Australia.\u00a0 She is now working as an IT Specialist for a Sydney-based International company. She is married to Mannix […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}