First 4: Gentlemen of the Philippines Official Candidates 

There are many male pageants in the Philippines. But Gentlemen Charities Incorporated (GCI) wants to make the competition evolve into something that will make the more jaded of pageant followers believe in what we want to achieve. We want Gentlemen of the Philippines to harvest young men who have the will to succeed regardless of the field. We want them to have present careers or future careers to lean on. And we want them smart. Not necessarily muscle-filled, but capable of speaking their minds in a heartbeat.

Here now are the first four (4) Official Candidates. We want to introduce them in groups to give each one a share of the limelight before the floodgates are unlocked wide open.

Mohammad Ali Imran Atendido is 21 and stands 5’10”. He is a half-Filipino, half-Pakistani from Lucena, Quezon who studies Computer Engineering at the Manuel Enverga University Foundation. He speaks five (5) different languages – English, Tagalog, Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi – and has experienced life in three different cultures. He grew up in Lahore, worked as an 18 year-old Electrician in Hong Kong and started to reside permanently reside in the Philippines when he started college schooling in Quezon.

Kian Jabin Sumague is 21 years old and stands 5’10”. He lives an active lifestyle by engaging in a lot of sports like swimming, soccer and basketball, while doing crossfit training to keep himself in shape all the time. He speaks fluent Italian (after living in Florence, Italy for 13 years) and conversational French (brought about by school requirements that required him to learn a different tongue). He is a Tourism major.

Miguel Alexis Maliwat is a true-blue Kapampangan – currently a Senior taking up Civil Engineering and works on the side as a Fitness Instructor. Of late, he was featured as one of the Century Tuna Superbods Nat10n transformation stories during the contest’s finals. He used to be a really overweight teenager who struggled to keep himself in shape. But with determination, he was able to beat all odds and become the lean and muscular young dreamer he is right now. He stands 5’11”.

Carlo Roy Roslinda has very impressive academic credentials. This 27 year-old from Tagbilaran graduated Summa cum Laude when he finished his Masteral degree in (Surgical) Nursing. At the moment, he is in the middle of his Doctorate studies in the same field, but majoring in Gerontology now. To keep himself afloat in terms of allowances and expenses, he works as an Events Host and similar gigs. He is 5’10.5″.

So as you can see, there is and will always be something unique in each and every Official Candidate of Gentlemen of the Philippines. These are just the first four. Watch out for the other contenders who will come from almost every part of the Philippines and at least six (6) Filipino Communities abroad (US, Canada, UK, Germany and one each from Rome and Milan).