Miss Turkey went berserk and woke the entire hotel with a hysterical scream that emitted a 1000 decibels. It turned out that she had two big swollen and red goldfish-eye on the day of the pageant's grand final. She was desperately looking for eye gel and the rest of the contestants chipped in with their secret remedies-tea bags, ice packs, cucumbers but all did not help.
I bunked in with Miss Switzerland. Miss Turkey and Miss Germany were our immediate neighbours and upon realizing that, we yanked and yanked and boogied in our rooms till dawn. Some hotel guests complained about us apparently they were not amused by our rowdy behaviour.
During the pageant final night, it was a total chaos. Backstage, the contestants were trying on endless evening gowns, swimwear and national costumes all at once. Black, white, red or blue?. Miss Russia burnt her forehead with her hair-thongs. After few minutes of soothing cream and heavy layers of make up on, she looked great.
The German audiences were very sporting, spontaneous and very supportive to every candidate. They went screaming "go Singapore, go!" and also to everyone else. The winner that night was Miss France while Miss Hungary went on to win 1st runner up and me in the 3rd spot.
Miss Singapore was also in the same place of third at last year's event. It should be noted that I am the only Asian in the top 5 round. The best part was celebrating birthday together with Miss Israel and several other contestants.
Full result:
Miss France-Winner
Miss Hungary-1st runner up
Miss Singapore-2nd runners up
Miss Germany-3rd runners up
Miss Ghana-4th runners up
*this excerpt was taken from GLAMOUR BACKSTAGE magazine, vol 6 no.1, 07/95.
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