On Sunday night, I caught the tail end of the 2009 Miss Universe pageant. Usually I would know about the pageant ahead of time so that I could check out the Asian contestants, however each year the pageant is becoming less news-worthy and is why I did not know it was on until 2 hours into the program. By the time I started watching, the top 10 were selected with none of the 10 finalists being Asian. So I wondered if any of the Asian contestants should have made it to the top 10. Continue reading to find out.I started watching the Miss Universe pageant back in 2004. My girl at the time would was Thai wanted me to watch it with her which I how I started watching the program. She would always root for whoever was Miss Puerto Rico since she was usually gorgeous and had a real good chance of winning. She never rooted for Miss Thailand since whoever was Miss Thailand at the time was always ugly to her.
I would always check out the Asian contestants to see which one was the hottest since I don’t pay much attention to the actual competition since the winner was usually from Puerto Rico or Venezuela. And as the years went by, I started paying less attention to the pageant and would only watch it if I happen to catch it while flipping through television channels, which is how I caught it yesterday.
The first thing that I noticed when checking out the contestants page is that the contestants were ordered by ratings giving by members of the site. 4 out of the top 15 highest rated contestants were from Asian countries with Miss Indonesia who is pictured above being the highest rated contestant going into the pageant. I guess the judges had a different opinion since she did not make the cut. Let’s meet her and the Asian contestants in order of member rating:
Miss Indonesia – Zivanna Letisha Siregar
Miss Thailand – Chutima Durongdej
Miss Vietnam – Hoang Yen Vo
Miss Philippines – Bianca Manalo
Miss India – Ekta Chowdhry
Miss Singapore – Rachel Kum
Miss Japan – Emiri Miyasaka
Miss China – Wang Jingyao
Miss Korea – Rina
Miss Malaysia – Joannabelle Ng
I was surprised to see the contestants from Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Philippines ranked so high while the contestants from China, Japan, Singapore, Korea, etc. ranked so low out of all of the contestants who participated in the pageant. All of these women are beautiful, however the only one I would vote for to put into the top 10 would be Miss Indonesia. She gets my vote because she is the only one that I am wowed by when I look at her, where as the other Asian contestants look just okay to me.
Compared to the contestants from the other countries, besides Miss Indonesia, there’s not one that I would swap out for one of the contestants that did make it eventually to the top 10. And do you think that Miss Indonesia is the most beautiful out of all of the Asian contestants for this year? I think she is.
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