Was talking to Te Zhong and Wylyn about the Miss Universe pageant yesterday.
There must be some sort of right-wing conspiracy going on in Hollywood. At the Academy Awards last year, a dull and incoherent movie (I can’t even recall the name) beat Brokeback Mountain to Best Picture and Lee Ang was given a face-saving Oscar for Best Director. On Monday, the American dominion of Puerto Rico pipped Japan to the Miss Universe title, and the latter was given a token award for Best National Costume. I’ve got no idea how that can be justified. Ms Japan (Kurara Chibana) looks way better, way less plastic (spastic); she has a nice smile and she looks way better on the catwalk. She spoke in three languages during the two Question and Answer rounds and in the second round her reply is clearly the best amongst all the finalists. Unlike many of the other contestants, she has a personality. Furthermore, she looks a lot healthier and a lot more cheerful.
After Australia in 2004 and Canada in 2005, giving the title to Puerto Rico this time round is a throw back to the days where Miss Universe judges seem to have a fetish for surgically enhanced, nose-at-just-the-right-angles, mouth-just-wide-enough (their standard is really wide), eyes-at-just-the-right-distance-apart, neck-at-just-the-right-length, cheekbones-at-just-the-right-position-relative-to-jaw, good-looking-in-a-stereotypical-way, gibberish, “world peace”, Hispanics (usually Venezuelans). They are mannequins! Just go take a look at Miss Puerto Rico. Perhaps the only difference between her and her early predecessors is that she actually looks kinda sickly, in an ET sort of way.
Singapore’s outing was typically uneventful. By the looks of it, I don’t think this Miss Singapore will make it as NCMP. If I remember correctly, during the Miss Singapore pageant she was asked for the song that best describes her. Her answer was ‘Don’t Cha’, either that or she said she loves her mother.
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