The demise of Miss Singapore Universe

All these years, pageant girls representing Singapore for Miss Singapore Universe have been getting the blame for being unable to make Singapore smell a whiff of the Miss Universe prize.

But having dealt with its incumbant organiser just ONCE, it becomes pretty clear with whom the fault lies with.

I mean there must be a reason why no sponsors are willing to pool in their valuable advertsing dollars to be associated with the event. And I can safely tell you, it's not the lack of well-calibred girls we have on this island. Singapore is not lacking in beauties, unless your perception of beauty is restricted to those deathly pale Taiwanese/J-pop lookalikes who carries straw umbrellas everywhere they go.

The fact that we are a modern, cosmopolitan city, pretty much ensures that our girls here are (for the most part), well-groomed, well-travelled and knowledgeable. The fact that our country is wealthy, pretty much ensures that plastic surgery is commonplace, except that we don't embrace it as much as the Koreans. We may not have the most well-endowed girls in the chest department, but we make up for it with wit, grace, willowy-proportions and I dare say (surprise, surprise) we have quite pretty faces.

So why is it that the pageant do not attract as much well-qualified participattion as it intended to? Why is it that the sponsors are not convinced to park their dollars with the organizers? Why are the media all giving bad reviews towards the pageant? It can't be the girls, because the contestants change pretty much every year. You don't see Jade Seah and Eunice Olsen getting the prize year after year, only to be boo-ed down the stage and going back into the same competition the next year only to be boo-ed again.

By that equation, the contestants are variables, and so are the sponsors. There is only ONE FIXED CONSTANT year after year, and I believe that my point is pretty evident by now.

Why do I say so?
1) They are extremely unprofessional. So innumerous that it's gonna disrupt the flow of my thoughts if i were to list them all out.
2) They are extremely thick in the head. You would think that after the father stepped down from being the King of teekorpeks, the son that took over would be more energetic in reinstating reforms. But no, sad to say, our senior minister was right in his beliefs in Eugenics.
3) They are extremely lazy, so lazy that they cannot even check their email regularly, and have no corporate etiquette, which then links back to the point that they are not professional.
4) They are very bad liars. It's bad enough that you aren't accoutable for the things that you've done (or rather have not done), it's worse when you tell a lie for it, and cannot even account for the lie.

For all the above stated reasons, I'm surprise that they've never evaluated themselves as the cause of a dip in popularity.

Having said that, I must say that I am terribly displease with our Royal Highness 2008 as well. I was going to refrain from commenting about her on my blog initially, because even after she made "horse rearing look like our national sports and stomping our national dance" in Vietnam, because the interview session went ahead as planned despite a few glitches in the day. But her inability to follow, and the ineffectiveness in getting things doen really had me seething with fire. I thought I was the worse time keeper around, being perpetually late for 15-30 min. But being 6 hours late is a whole new world altogether, only to preach to me about her "rights" as MSU after I've sent in my statements to the media. Nabeh!

Back to the topic of her organizer. Sadly, he didn't back her up at all. Instead he pushed all the blame onto her, citing her lack of ability to follow clear instructions as the cause of all this chaos and misunderstanding. Despite the fact that she obviously had a part in me being very angry now, I believe that she should only bear 10% of the fault.

Lack of support for the queen from the country? Hell yea, especially when her court jester is the one who is slinging mud all over the gown behind her back.