Miss Puerto Rico was one of my faves along with Singapore, Germany, Korea, and Trinidad and Tobago http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif.

Miss Puerto Rico quickly became my favorite after Miss Singapore wasn't called to the Top Ten!! She has SO MUCH elegance, grace...WOW, when me, my bf, and his family were watching this...I think all of our mouths just dropped...she seriously could become a Supermodel, like Naomi or Elle!!

After she made the Top Ten..I called her as the winner, I just knew it with her presence/aura...I seriously still think she should become a Supermodel!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

Hey guys! This is very interesting: http://www.icompact.com/ubb/Forum48/HTML/000174.html just about pageants in general...reading it is very sad http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/frown.gif. It's from my fave beauty messageboard www.icompact.com

Side Note: I forgot to tell you all, I was also rooting for Miss Nigeria! I was bummed when she didn't make the final five. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/frown.gif

ALso...about Miss Greece needing a translator...I think she was cheating?? She looked like she could speak Eng. perfectly fine, and I think she used the translator just to stall.

Also, there are some archived chats on http://promo.yahoo.com/missuniverse/ ! For ex., Miss India 2001, Miss Canada 2001, Miss Singapore 2001 (YAY!!!), and others came to chat!

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More info about Miss PR from Jamie Teo, Miss Singapore 2001:

(from archived chat...link in above post)

y_singapore_host: how about the other
delegates? who do you think is nice and who do you think might win?
yguest_jamie_teo: oh, ok :-) I think Ms PR will win
yguest_jamie_teo: she has the bearing of a beauty queen
yguest_jamie_teo: 1st of all she is very popular here
y_singapore_host: so what is the bearing of a beauty queen?
yguest_jamie_teo: the people cheer for her like in a football field
yguest_jamie_teo: as aperson she is very nice
yguest_jamie_teo: she plays the role very well
yguest_jamie_teo: always smiling
yguest_jamie_teo: plays it very well

Cool, so Miss PR is very nice, too!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

Maybe this is O/T, but since there are a lot of you out there who love pageants and weddings...I thought I'd share this info.

My BF and I received tickets to go to the Miss Hawaii Pageant last night. Miss America Angela Perez Baraquio was there to help with festivities. Her boyfriend is part of a local singing group, and mid-performance he surprised her with a song that asked her to marry him. She said yes.

For pictures, visit this link: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/ar.../ln/ln16a.html . There wasn't a dry eye in the house.