MSU 2007

Who do the girls think is their biggest competitor?

Jessica Tan

"Jessica. She has the composure and the elegance that is required of a beauty queen and I'll be very proud of her if she represents Singapore." - Fang Yu Ying

"Jessica. She has the elegance and confidence of a beauty queen and she looks perfect at every angle. She is beautiful inside too." - Adlina Adil

"Christabel. She has the height and a performing background, so she is more confident and exposed (to being in the limelight)." - Judy Lee

Just finished viewing the MSU 2007 finals. And my sister and I thought that this year's results were rather predictable. Hot faves Jessica, Christabel, and Joey won the top spots, no surprises there actually.

I must say that Jessica has got the looks to have what it takes to make it. I mean, even the rest of the contestants thought so (see above). I would dare to say that she'll probably be the one to go the furthest in this year's Miss Universe.
However, I was rather disappointed that Christabel wasn't the one to be crowned. Sigh...after all, this IS a beauty contest and despite her being a natural on screen. In my opinion, she has the wits, personality and the smarts.

Another fave of mine, Joey, has got the cutesy looks. Her answers were pretty good too. Smartly avoiding the question and giving a different answer unlike the others.

Here's a short bio on our top 3

Miss Singapore Universe 2007
Winner
Name: Jessica Tan

Age: 24

Occupation: Flight Stewardess

Hobbies: Baking, cooking, computer games, supermarket shopping, drawing

Motto in life: “Live life to the fullest and bring smiles to other people’s lives”

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Runner-up
Name: Joey Feng

Age: 22

Occupation: Undergraduate

Hobbies: Playing netball, jogging, sun tanning and hanging out with friends.

Motto in life: “Live life to the fullest and dare to dream because dreams do come true”


"I do NOT have Angelina Jolie's body so I've got to start working hard right now to build up the abs to flaunt my body on stage." - Joey Feng on her thoughts abt the Swimsuit Segment

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2nd runner-up
Name: Christabel Campbell

Age: 19

Occupation: Student

Hobbies: Creative writing, traveling (“I have an intense curiosity in what is out there beyond the comfort of home.”) and music

Motto in life: “We are blessed to bless”

Christabel Campell

"There is a high chance that when I'm on stage, the bright lights will distract me and I will black out. But, the segment that I'm most confident in, is also the Q&A because it is my chance to, in that thirty seconds, show a bit more of who I am. It's like a double-edged sword." - the Q&A segment may ace or axe her chances, says Christabel Campbell

"It may. As a journalist, I have a day to edit my work. Q&A is more of on-the-spot thinking, and it really puts you on the spot...but it helps me to use my language to buy time." - Christabel on whether her journalism background will help her in the Q&A segment.

Source: http://ch5.mediacorptv.com/wassup/hotpicks/view/835/1/.html

Miss Singapore Universe (MSU)

My thoughts on Miss Singapore Universe Pageant

• Most of the contestants are bad representations of an English-speaking country.

• Most are bad public speakers.

• Where's the poise and grace?
  

Every year, while I was overseas (for the past 5 years), at this time, I wld keep an eye on local events (namely the MSU). I would ask for '8 Days' and clips abt the MSU to be sent to me.
Of course, the first impression me and my pals (which, btw are girls) can get is from that one -page photo expose of the contestants.
That wld be our first peek on how that year's MSU might turn out. AND every year we all unanimously say the same thing "...aiyo why this year like that again?" or something to that extent.

Hmm, wonder if the judges forgot their glasses and hearing aids 'tikam-tikam boh tiok'!

Pity, for the longest time, no Indians won (u know how i love Ash Rai rite?!) and I digress...

Click here to see this year's contestants

To call them pretty, can lah.. to call them erm, beautiful also can lah.. but to have them compete in an international BEAUTY pagent is a total wrong move!!!! Most of them are not beautiful enuf to even compete against our neighbour’s representative.. not even once in S'pore’s history of pageants. Itz not that we do not have beautiful women on this tiny island...we do! BUT where are they?!

On an empirical level, we all know that the Miss Singapore Universe organisers have a propensity to crown slit-eyed manjens who can’t differentiate between their Rs and Ls. Beauty may be subjective. But year in, year out, the contestants seem to be sub-standard cookie-cutter girls, who won't even get pass the first round in the real Miss Universe contest.

Having 3 or 10 judges is inarbitrary, because we all know which ‘juggernaut’community will win. Attempts at focusing on brains and intellect is evidently contrived, affected and overrated.

high qualifications, but lousy answers.
Most dun even answer the question.

Qn: “what do you think of the notion that local men are not as attractive as foreign men?”
Ans(1): “………erm, but i tink, be it local or foreign men, they just don’t get it!”
Ans(2): I dated short & plump guys…..blah, bblah, blah..”

(hu wants to noe hu they dated? dah lak buruk, buta lak tu!)*pfft!*
ok, i digressed…again.

Sadly, beauty competitions are not considered to be a waste of time as it is a good money-making machine that will never die. Think of the acting opportunities, sponsorship - advertising, a start to tat climb to fame...

People and media shouldn’t inflict this irritating notion that being beautiful is good and being not beautiful is as good as ugly especially to ourselves, let alone the young.

Beauty is subjective to a person. Therefore beauty exists, just not in every contestant in Miss Singapore Universe.

As for my own personal view, I hope that beauty pageants be scrapped.