Miss Philippines Universe Pamela Bianca Manalo Arrives in Bahamas

Miss Philippines Universe Pamela Bianca Manalo is one of the two Asian beauties who made an impact on me at the ongoing Miss Universe 2009 in Bahamas. The other one is Miss Singapore Rachel Kum.

While Rachel was standing out in their swimsuit pictorials the other day, Pamela's arrival in Bahamas showed her class and regal bearing. Pamela looks very sweet, elegant and with grace.

The Filipino beauty queen was greeted by a handful of Filipinos working in Bahamas and it is said that her arrival is so far the warmest welcome a delegate could have received from supporters.


Even the controversial Ines Ligron, director of Miss Japan Universe, was stunned by the natural beauty of Pamela. She made a post in her blog calling Miss Philippines a "stunner". She added that Pamela is a "real beauty with grace".

And we are right, the outfit we have mentioned here is what Pamela wore.

We are putting Miss Philippines in our Top 15 prediction (to be released soon). But we are hoping she have a decent long gown to realize this. But anyways, the Miss Universe organization is looking for the girl who looks the best in long gown and not the best long gown.

Miss Philippines is one of the late delegates who arrived in Bahamas to beat the deadline of registration.

Rachel Kum and the other Miss Universe girls in their swimsuits

It looks like Miss Singapore Rachel Kum is making waves in Bahamas. She seems to be the favourite of the photographers who are covering the Miss Universe 2009. One thing I would like to say, Rachel is in great form and she's giving the other girls a run of their money. She looks beautiful and fresh. I just don't know if you agree with me.

Just a little trivia, before Rachel flew to Bahamas, she spent some days in Maldives to get a little tan. She blogged this journey in her official site.

 

 

Aside from the pictures of the girls in their swimsuits, here are some pictures of them in their long gowns and casual wears.

 

 

Miss Singapore Rachel Kum Tweets her journey to Bahamas

Miss Singapore Universe 2009 Rachel Kum tweets in her twitter account that Miss Mexico Karla Carillo was her first co-delegate she met in person. She and Karla were on the same flight from Miami to Bahamas. She said that Karla is her first friend in the contest.

Rachel also added that her flight from Singapore to Miami took a grueling 28 hours because of baggage delay.

On the other hand, Miss Guam  Racine Manley is Rachel's roommate in Bahamas.

Meanwhile, below are Rachel's national costume and evening gown. The national costume was chosen by the Singaporean through an online poll. The chosen costume was designed by a second-year fashion student Zhang Xiaoqing.

 

 

Will Miss Bahamas Kiara Sherman Penetrates the Top 15?

I am excited with Miss Universe 2009 and starting tomorrow we will be witnessing the arrival of all the delegates from around the globe. Bahamas will be the center of the world for beauty pageant lovers like me.

For the last three weeks, we've seen a lot of the latest pictures of some of the delegates who are being hyped by their fans. We saw their transformations. We loved some of them and bashed some of them. But why on earth we aren't talking much about the host country's representative? She's just waiting in Bahamas to welcome all the ladies and I think we need to look at her transformation also.

Kiara Sherman is definitely one of the most bashed delegates this year together with Miss Singapore Rachel Kum and Miss Philippines Pamela Bianca Manalo.

Yes, Kiara was lambasted when she won her title by her fellow Bahamians because they believed she was not the perfect choice. But looking at her latest photo, I am convinced that Kiara is working so hard to make her country proud of her.

She is definitely better now and hopefully she might give Bahamas its first ever Top 15 finish in the history of Miss Universe.

Do you think she could penetrate the Top 15 considering homecourt advantage?

Miss Singapore Rachel Kum's National Costume

I mentioned earlier here that for the first time in the history of Miss Singapore Universe, their national costume for the Miss Universe pageant will be decided by the public through online voting.

The reason why the pageant organizers are doing this is because they received flak last year with the merlion-inspired outfit wore by Shenise Wong at the Miss Universe 2008 in Vietnam. This time, the organizer would like to satisfy the public.

Ten designs by students of Raffles Design Institute, which draw inspiration from local themes such as the national flower Vanda Miss Joaquim and the twinkles of the city skyline at night, were presented online. The one with the highest votes will be the national costume of Rachel Kum, Miss Singapore Universe 2009.

Here are five of the designs including the merlion-inspired costume.

 

  

  

  

 

Who has the Best Headshot Among the candidates of Miss Universe 2009?

 

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I've been talking about Miss Earth new website yesterday and surprisingly, Miss Universe also updated theirs by uploading the headshots of each candidates to the 2009 Miss Universe in Bahamas. So, who do you think has the Best Headshot?

But I noticed some honest mistakes which include:

1. Miss Singapore Rachel Kum has the picture of Miss Philippines Pamela Bianca Manalo.

2. Miss Philippines named has been mispelled. Instead of PAMELA Bianca Manalo, what was written is PANELA Bianca Manalo.

Most of the ladies are beautiful in pictures. Most of them are photogenic. The question is, will there be a Miss Photogenic award this year after it was skipped last year?

Miss Indonesia Zivanna Letisha Sirigar is stunning in her headshot. She's a revelation. And I also noticed her big facial similarity with Miss Philippines Pamela Bianca Manalo.

Miss Korea Na Ri is not really that bad. She looks so sensual and sophisticated in the picture.

Miss Netherlands Avalon Chanel Weyzig is like a goddess. I love her almond-like skin colour.

Miss Paraguay Mareike Baumgarten Oroa's headshot should be changed. She doesn't look good in her picture. While most of the candidates have photoshopped pictures, Mareike's picture was not.

Miss Egypt Elham Wagdi is absolutely stunning.

These are only few of my comments. I try to post more next time.

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Is Miss Singapore Rachel Kum about to succumb to pressure?

There have been calls to strip Miss Singapore 2009, Rachel Kum, of her title after some racy or scandalous pictures of her appeared in this blog, Beauty in Pageants. The photos were picked up by beauty pageant related forums and other blogs until it reached the organizers of Miss Singapore.

But the organizers said they are not stripping Rachel of her crown since the pictures were all taken before her crowning. She will still be going to Bahamas for the Miss Universe 2009.

Asiaone.com also run a story on these photos. Though the website did not name our blog, it was pretty obvious the writer was talking about this blog and the pictures we first uploaded here. They actually copied some of the comments made under the blog entries we wrote on Rachel Kum's suggestive pictures.

There is one I discovered from reading all the news articles on this so-called brouhaha, I came to realize that people are not aware that these pictures we published here came from the blog of Rachel Kum, herself. Yes, it's just like the beauty queen was also the one who fed us these pictures in question - innocently.

Did you know that?

But when I checked back Rachel's blog, her site was temporarily unavailable. She mentions that the site is going to be revamped soon.

Another source told me that at one point, Rachel set her blog privately. One can read it by invitation only. Probably she did it while she was deleting the pictures.

The question is, is Rachel about to succumb to pressure?

I have seen online petitions calling her to step down or give up her title. More and more people are signing.

We did not expect that these stories we ran in this blog would generate such controversy. One thing is achieved here - Rachel is now one of the most talked candidates to the Miss Universe 2009.

So don't be surprised if we see her on the Top 15 come August 23rd.

***Rachel posted the picture shown above in her blog. It was taken in Maldives.

Miss Singapore Rachel Kum's Another Scandalous Picture

Rachel Kum, Singapore's representative to the Miss Universe 2009 pageant in Bahamas is in hot water again, for the nth time, for having another racy picture circulating in the net.

Rachel is definitely one of the most attacked candidates to the Miss Universe along with Miss Philippines Pamela Bianca Manalo and Miss Vietnam Vo Hoang Yen. Poor three lovely beauties who have been into public scrutiny just because of their dreams of representing their countries to an international pageant like the MIss Universe.

Well, the photo is taken from a party and there's nothing wrong being involved in this idea of fun but as a beauty queen, we really have to be very careful.

More of her racy pictures in here.