Venus Raj Exclusive Interview with OPMB

OMGASHHHHH .... I REALLY LIKE HER !!!!

FROM VENUS TO UNIVERSE

VENUS RAJ

MISS UNIVERSE 2010 !!!

i LUV the fact that she is from DIRT poor PROVINCIAL background ...

i am TOUCHED that she FOUGHT to get back her CROWN ....

i can FEEL that she is a GENUINE, down to EARTH person, with extremely GOOD HEART!

that she is catwalk TALL and with that unforgettable BEAUTY and NAME ...

that she is CONFIDENT, AMBITIOUS, FIERCE and DETERMINED ....

that she has won the HEARTS of her people ...

ARE ALL THE REASONS THAT WILL PROPEL HER TO WIN

MISS UNIVERSE 2010 !!!

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To inspire the WORLD with her SUCCESS STORY ...

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i AM extremely EXCITED .... and PROUD OF VENUS!

Raj was born out of wedlock in Doha, Qatar, but she was taken to Bato, Camarines Sur in the Bicol Region, Philippines as an infant when her Filipino mother and Indian father separated. It was her mother, a tenant farmer and dressmaker, who solely brought her up as a child. Raj had lived in a nipa hut made of wood, bamboo and anahaw leaves with no electricity in the middle of a sprawling rice field in the rural Bato town for more than 20 years. She claimed that walking on a rice paddy dike was her early training for walking on fashion runways. The youngest in a brood of five children, Raj started joining local beauty pageants when she was 17 years old, as well as oratorical contests at San Vicente High School. Maria Lourdes Pili, her English teacher, served as her coach for the oratorical contests. With her winnings in major contests, she started to buy land on installment basis for her mother

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A-HA MOMENTS

Some songs just make you remember old forgotten memories...

just like this ... :)

MELBOURNE INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - FIL FILMS TO WATCH ???

FOR YOUR HEIGHT ONLY ... MACHETE

LA INDEPENDENCIA

LOLA

Are any of these films worth watching ??? We tend to support Filipino films, but do they make us proud or do we cringe and make a quick exit after the film has been shown, feeling like our dirtiest underwear has been shown in public! Well, well, well ...

PETALISTIC VIEW

Do you still remember Petal (Kate Blanchett) of the movie The Shipping News (2001)? The unrepentant shameless guiltless selfish whore ... whose idea of life is to have FUN, FUN, FUN, SEX, SEX and more SEX with not only ONE but with different and many men as much as possible, and switches from one rope to another like Tarzan on heat !!! The only thing really that would make her stop and did stop her is that dramatic plunge into the river with her lover ...

Honestly, I do understand Petal. There is that big bottomless hole or emptiness that needs to be filled ... and no amount of "goodness" in life can satisfy this itch. The thought that something out there, outside the confines of a boring home, is fun and you are constantly missing out on something. That life is short and therefore you have to make use of youth and time that you have by going out and meeting people.

There is Petal in most of us. And in my case from now and then, this character prevails. But hopefully we can also see beauty in being boring ... in a steadfast grounded life. I just wonder whether Petal in her last breath even thought about these. Maybe not ever !!!

On a lighter note, I just love Kate Blanchett as Petal with those piercing and probing eyes of a harlot!