Miss Universe 2008

Hiya, peoples! Sorry for the slow update. Anyways, the new Miss Universe 2008 has been crowned and she is none other than the super sexy and extremely gorgeous Dayana Mendoza, Miss Venezuela. With her win, Venezuela now has five Miss Universe titles and the last time they won was when the controversial Alicia Machado wore the title in 1996. Miss Colombia, Taliana Vargas and Miss Dominican Republic, Marianne Cruz Gonzalez was the 1st Runner-up and 2nd Runner-up respectively. Vera Krasova, Miss Russia and Elisa Najera, Miss Mexico rounded out the Top 5.

This year's pageant was full of surprises and so many undeserving delegates made the Top 15. It was a travesty! Hungary (that body was totally and utterly undeserving), Vietnam (she's great but there's no need to polish the shoes of the host country! Chanantorn didn't even make it when the pageant was held in Thailand in 2005 and she was far superior than Thuy Lam!) and Italy (ugh! the worst evening gown presentation and the worst national costume ever! and that surname was so tongue-in-cheek! Italy is the capital of the fashion world, Claudia ought to prepare better!) were included in the list of finalists whereas pageant powerhouses like Puerto Rico, India, Korea, Trinidad & Tobago and Panama were left out in the cold. It's unforgivable for delegates who prepared so hard and so well to be left standing with the rest of the delegates. My commiserations to Ingrid, Simran, Sun, Anya and Carolina! I believe I speak for the rest of the pageant community when I say the preliminary judges should be shot!

Perhaps the Top 15 was such travesty because The Donald didn't make it to Vietnam. He should be the one with the final say of the girls who made the cut. Anyways, what's done is done, so let's leave ourselves some room for Miss World 2008 in Kiev, Ukraine! I hope it'll be a memorable pageant! By the way, the telecast for this year's Miss Universe was kinda boring. Lack of the wow factor if you ask me!