Jonathan Mercado : Man of the Philippines - Cavite 2019

Jonathan Mercado : Man of the Philippines - Cavite 2019

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Man of Cavite 2019: Jonathan Mercado

Age: 20 yrs old

Height: 5'9"

Birthday: January 17, 1999

Birthplace: Noveleta, Cavite

Family: 4 (lola, mom, uncle, and Jonathan)

Present Career or present course and school level: Graduate of BSBA Major in Financial Managemen, to be knowledgeable in financial management

Hobbies: Jonathan loves performing at stage especially when he is portraying antagonist roles.

Journey in pageantry:

What are the pageants you have joined and what are the achievements you had like Awards and titles?

Jonathan was always joining pageants at school from high school to college. Joining in MOPH Cavite was just his second experience in joining pageant outside campus which he won.

Jonathan mentioned that no one encouraged him to join pageantry it just so happened that when the first time he joined in competitions like this, he had fallen in-love with the feeling of being appreciated by the crowd through their applause. Afterwards, whenever he had the opportunity to join, he grabbed them without any hesitation.

MoPh: Jonathan was discovered thru facebook and was asked to join MoPh- Cvaite and winning in the provincial level brought him at the national finals for MoPh

Inspiration to join Man of the Philippines:

The inspiration of Jonathan is his family and friends whose always in the crowd at times when he was blinded by the spotlight at stage. Win or lose, they are still proud of him so his victory is for all of them.

Jonathan’s advocacy in joining MoPh:

Jonathan mentioned that since then, even before his MoPh-Cavite days, his group (Teatro de Salinas) was already advocating self confidence of the youth in their town through performing arts and interacting with other people. He adopted this advocacy as his, and they are continuously molding self composure of their beneficiaries with the hope that they will be confident and competent in any fields that they will conquer someday.

Hometown:

The province of Cavite is a place of diverse culture, rich heritage, and a variety of environmental treasure;

(Diverse culture) in any spot around the province, there are various accents, voice tone, different ways of cooking, and traditions. Because of these, no one will actually imagine that they all came from one province, despite these differences, they are united;

(Rich heritage) Historically, he considers his home as land of the heroes because in many pages of the Philippine history, Cavite is there.;

(environmental treasure) From beautiful mountains, lakes, and seas, Caviteña have it all. He can simply say that in any angle, his province is a pearl of our country. Every places could be as wonderful as they are, but Cavite will always be majestic as it is.

Best experience as MoPh candidate:

Jonathan mentioned that the best experience is being a candidate itself, he is a man full of goals and to be a part of this national competition is already a success.

Expectation with MoPh:

Jonathan expects nothing but the best. He trusts the organizers, directors, staffs, and all of the people whose behind this. He knows that they will do their best just for us to learn all things that we have to learn. And most of all, he knows that he will enjoy the pageant, win or lose.

Message to supporters: “Para sa lahat ng sumusuporta sakin, para satin tong laban na to! Go team Cavite.”

Man of the Philippines 2019

Watch the pageant night on November 28, 2019 at Tanghalang Pasigueño, Pasig City

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