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Showing posts with label Miss Universe 2007. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miss Universe 2007. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

お祝い RIYO MORI ( 森 理世 ) それに値する

バレリーナのミス日本、森理世が28日夜9時(現地時刻)、ミス・ユニバース世界大会で1位となった。ミス日本がミス・ユニバースの栄冠を手にしたのは、1959年の小島明子以降、48年ぶりのこと。森理世はカナダのバレエスクール出身のバレリーナで、ニューヨーク・ブロードウェイのダンススクールへの入学許可を受け、その後ミス日本に選ばれた。

ユニバースに輝いた森さんには、前年の優勝者スレイカ・リベラさんから、ダイヤモンドと真珠で飾られた25万ドル(約3000万円)相当の王冠が贈られた。

なお、ミスコリアのイ・ハニは4位に入った。ミスコリアがミス・ユニバース世界大会で受賞したのは2人目。88年、チャン・ユンジョンがソウルで行われたミス・ユニバース世界大会で2位に入った。 今大会では、2位にミス・ブラジルのナタリー・グィマレス、3位にはミス・ベネズエラのリー・ロナティスが選ばれ、5位にはミス・アメリカのレイチェル・スミスが入った。さらにミス・フォトジェニックはミス・フィリピンのアンナ・テレサ・リカロス、ミス・フレンドシップにはミス中国のニンニン・チャンが選ばれた。

Pageants like Miss Universe serve as a beacon of hope for millions of young women all over the world dreaming to better their lives and actually be somebody.

Hope -- is the only thing that most of these women can hold on to in this seemingly "hopeless" world. Dreams are made, shattered and came true. And to most of these women, pageants like this is the only bridge to the other side.

Feminists, purists and other cause-bearing advocates cannot offer the same hope to these millions of women. Or can they?


--by Pisanu


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Sunday, May 27, 2007

SHOW ME THE MONEY! Miss Universe 2007

It's betting season again! Miss Universe this time. Any big event is a money making opportunity for me and my friends. A few weeks ago I won a couple of hundreds when I bet on Serbia at the Eurovision 2007. Was it sweet or what?


Pisanu, Morgan, Tommy and me pooled our monies together for fun and reached $2,000 ($500 each). This is the amount we are prepared to lose and we have just put it all in at Betway.com and here's our bet;


SERBIA: We just thought a blonde would win this year and she's the best of them all. We placed $300 on her. Odds: 25 (I know, I know it's not too good)

KOREA: We're not pageant experts but we know beautiful when we see one. We placed $300 on her. Odds: 15.

According to a source, Miss Universe almost always pick the one with lots of character. Well, it's GREECE for us and we placed $300 on her. Odds: 9.

It's our money and we're gonna bet on whoever we like. We placed $300 on THAILAND because we know something you don't.


We're pretty sure VENEZUELA would be on the finals so she got better chances than most of them. Her and Korea got the best bodies so we placed $350 on her, just to be safe. Odds: 6.

Although we know a booby girl would have slim chances, we thought her age and personality would push her to the finals -- duh! Who are we kidding?-- the real reason is...somebody gave us a tip on BRAZIL. We place $450 on her too. Odds 11.





So, there it is. Our Miss Universe 2007 BETS (real betting, mind you) on Tuesday.
And don't give us those "why is she not there?" or "why is she in there?" non-sense.

It's our money.


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--by Sofia





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