| oohi_ashu |
Posted
on 04-Oct-01 09:21 PM
Over the last one year, I have had some good fortune to meet and talk
with some of the PAST participants (actually, four) of various Miss Nepal
contests.
Though that four is a pitifully low sample size to draw any kind of general conclusions about Miss Nepal wannabes, I must say that I have come away
with some really positive impressions about these women.
First of all, I found all of those women very smart, articulate and ambitious for themselves. Nothing like the "dumb beauties" that Nepali media portrays thems
as.
They seemed to know exactly WHY they took part in the contests (to further career in the show-biz or to expore a certain career, to learn new skills or to
meet new people).
Indeed, one of them has become a documentary-film maker; another attends
a university in Paris and spends time discussing Derrida, Rorty, and Barthes;
yet, another, has started her own business, using her own money and giving people jobs in Kathmandu, and one has become a counselor to victims of
domestic violence.
What I found interesing was that these women know they were/are beautiful,
and could live with it just fine without any fuss. This attitudinal simplicity
was charmingly disarming.
I am sort of ambivalent about the whole idea of beauty contests; but, after
having met with these women, my attitude has been: well, if an 18-year-old
Nepali woman has the right to choose who she wants to vote for in the national elections, then, she also has the right to choose for herself whether she wants
to participate in a beauty contest or not.
oohi
ashu
km,nepal
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| GP |
Posted
on 04-Oct-01 11:11 PM
Whoever was the photographer (s), the phtographs do not
have enough (light) exposure to portray them as they
are. I mean they are shown in photograph as dark colored
girl because of lack of horizontal rays. Some have overexposures
and this gives the photographers either don't have good
lightening system or the girls don't have enough knowledge
and information on good photographer.
Let me cite one joke:
Vimala Alexandar, Singapore wrote:
When we visited Disneyland, my 5 year old daughter went
on every ride with her father. The other daugher rejected
the rides that seemed dangerous. When the 5yr old
daughter stpped out of a hair raising rollercoaster ride for
what seemed like the umpteenth time, the elder daughter
said in an exasperated tone,
"Mum, when we get back home, I am going to get her [the
sister ] to look at the dictionary?"
"Why?" I asked, surprised.
"Well, she certainly does not know the meaning of FEAR!".
....
Are not those photographs too dark? Are they aware of this?
Or, its my computer that is dark? But, I can see shade under their
CHIUUDO. Too bright NIDHAR, too dark GHATI. It happens
when photograph is either fully based on CAMERA's built in FLASH
or the LIGHTs hung under the room CEILING.
GP
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