(Note: In the midst of suffering again from academic constipation, this is what I get—finding myself blabbering about beauty pageants once more. Much as I tried to resist the charm of the forums, I could just not let the pageant bug out of my system. Pootah! I guess it is true that once a pageant fan, always a pageant fan. And once the pageant virus strikes you, it will never get off your system. Even if you hibernate for some time...)

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This is not going to be an assessment of the Miss Universe 2009 edition. I’ll leave the experts—real and imagined—to do that. And don’t you worry, “experts”, we’ll be reading them like attentive pupils of primary school.

This is not going to be a tribute to Pamela Bianca Manalo either – our Binibining Pilipinas Universe 2009 who represented the Filipino people with aplomb in the international pageant much to the satisfaction of the Filipino pageant fans. I don’t think she needs any consolation… Continue

After watching the recorded footage of the Miss Universe 2009 Preliminary Competition (the botched live streaming in this part of the world is a major letdown), I am publishing my top choices for this year’s much raved international beauty competition. The caveat though is that my choices come from my subject position as a non-expert (that is, a pageant aficionado who relies merely on his impressions and who frankly, is not very privy to the jargon of modeling and is ignorant of the hypothesized… Continue

Be a part of history on August 16th at 8 P.M. ET, by watching The Preliminary Show live from Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas on… Continue