Miss International 2008 Officially Started

I have announced here that the 48th Miss International Beauty Pageant will be held on the 8th of November 2008 in Venetian Macau Resort Hotel. Sixty (60) contestants are expected to attend the pageant and the outgoing Miss International is Miss Mexico Priscilla Perales Elizondo.

The different delegates are now embarking from their countries to convene in Macau. I have announced here that Miss Philippines, Patricia Fernandez, flew from Manila to Macau today.

Of the expected 60 delegates from all over the world, Miss Guadeloupe Nancy Karen Fleurival and Miss Canada Elina Semikina are the tallest candidates at 6'2" and 6'1" respectively. Miss Hong Kong Sire Ma is the smallest at 5'3"1/2. There are four ladies who stand 5'5" - the second smallest. They are Miss Sri Lanka Faith Landers,  Miss Singapore Tok Wee Ee, Miss Macau Florence Loi and Miss Hawaii Serena Karnagy.

Another interesting note on this pageant is the participation of Miss Estonia Kardi Nogu - the very first for her country thus this is the debut of Estonia in Miss International pageant. 

Eight countries are returning after years of abscence in the pageant. Italy last competed in 1994, Belgium in 1996, Hawaii in 2004. 2005 is the last time Macau, Bahamas and Sweden competed and 2006 for Martinique and Norway.

In the history of this pageant, Venezuela was the winningest country with 5 winners followed by the Philippines with 4. Venezuela won in 1985, 1997, 2000, 2003 and 2006. Philippines won in 1964, 1970, 1979 and 2005.

Miss International remains one of the Grand Slam Pageants with no winner resigned or dethroned along with Miss Tourism Queen International. 

In the picture is the tallest delegate Miss Guadeloupe Nancy Karen Fleurival at 6'2"

Who is a Beauty Pageant Fan?

1. You enthusiastically utter the name of your country with an emphasis or in a strong voice when you were asked while in a foreign country. Example: If you're a Peruvian, you say "I'm from Peruuuuuuuuuu"!!! or You say "Namaste, I'm from India" then you bow your head.

2. You are suddenly sick on the day of the telecast of the pageant. You call your manager to inform that you are absent since you have headache, stomachache or any kind of sickness.

3. You make your beddings or curtains your gown every now and then and you can amazingly make more than 10 different gowns out of one curtain.

4. You call your neices or cousins names like Sushmita, Gloria, Riyo, Dayanara, Natalie, Jennifer and other names of a beauty titleholder.

5. You always wear a plastered smile everytime you walk in the street and wave your palm to every people who look at you.

6. You have an album of newspaper clippings about Misses Universe, World, Earth or International.

7. You start your answer to a question with the phrase "I believe... " or "I think......"

8. You stand up immediately and wave to an imaginary audience everytime you trip.

9. You are a member at least to one beauty pageant discussion boards or blogs.

10. You are conscious with your body and always on diet.

The 1972 Miss World contestants in their swimwears.

I know there more "symptoms" or other characteristisc we tend to see uniquely on an individual who have a different taste for beauty pageants. What I have enumerated are just the things I observed in the community where I grew up and do not necessarily the same of the background you've been to since birth.

What I am trying to point here is that, a real beauty pageant fan displays one of these characteristics. These are the characteristics that separate us from the others and make us a true blooded beauty fanatic.

If you can add some more in my list, feel free to leave me a message.

Next time I will bring to you the best in worst in gowns during the Miss Universe 2008 in Vietnam. I still watching all the tapes I have gathered.