Miss Philippines Shamcey Supsup won the 3rd runner-up spot in Miss Universe 2011. I was very impressed with Shamcey. Overall, she was confident, articulate, and gorgeous. She took the 2nd spot in fan votes during the Swimsuit and Evening Gown competition.
In her recorded video interview once the top 10 were announced, she sounded very genuine and not at all like a Pinay trying to sound like a Valley Girl. In the Q&A portion, Judge Vivaca A. Fox asked her the question. Here’s the paraphrased version;
Q&A Philippines: Paraphrased: Change your religion for the one you love so he could marry you. Why and Why Not?
Paraphrased answer: I will not change my religion to marry because the first person I love is God, the one who created me. The person I love should also love my God..
Something like that. She answered it very confidently, straight and articulately. She didn’t call anyone Sir or Ma’am and she didn’t give a shoutout to everyone and their Mamas.. LOL. Just the way it supposed to be.
Final List: 4th-China, 3rd-Philippines, 2nd-Brazil, 1st-Ukraine, Miss Universe 2011-Angola. Congratulations Ladies!!
The Miss Universe 2011 online poll by Latin American website Telemundo has been closed on Sunday, September 11, 2011.
Philippine bet Shamcey Supsup bested 88 other contestants in the online poll by garnering 2,067,267 votes.
Following Shamcey in second position is Miss Venezuela Vanessa Gonçalves with 2,002,704 votes. Only Shamcey and Vanessa surpassed the 2 million mark in the global fan vote.
Here are the Top 10 vote-getters in Telemundo’s online poll:
1. Miss Philippines, Shamcey Supsup – 2,067,267 votes 2. Miss Venezuela, Vanessa Gonçalves – 2,002,704 votes 3. Miss Mexico, Karín Ontiveros – 1,418,642 votes 4. Miss Dominican Republic, Dalia Fernández – 1,329,461 votes 5. Miss Ecuador, Claudia Schiess – 1,190,674 votes 6. Miss Nicaragua, Adriana Dorn – 1,159,054 votes 7. Miss Puerto Rico, Viviana Ortiz – 1,097,436 votes 8. Miss USA, Alyssa Campanella – 896,685 votes 9. Miss Thailand, Chanyasorn Sakornchan – 585,496 votes 10. Miss Colombia, Catalina Robayo – 237,469 votes
The official poll, however, was the one that was conducted at www.missuniverse.com where the highest vote-getter will automatically get a slot in the semifinals. It will be announced during the the main event of Miss Universe 2011 which is happening Monday night (Tuesday morning, Manila time), September 12, at the Credicard Hall in São Paulo, Brazil. Watch the Live Streaming of Miss Universe 2011in this site.
Shamcey Supsup is a clear front-runner in the 2011 Miss Universe pageant.
After the preliminaries of Miss Universe 2011 were shown worldwide via Livestream, pageant pundits everywhere now have an idea on who should be the front-runners come finals night of the prestigious pageant on September 12 in Brazil.
Every Top 5 lists have a common denominator: our very own candidate, Shamcey Supsup!
And this is because of Shamcey’s impressive performance in the evening gown competition:
Pageant website Global Beauties called Shamcey the most elegant in this category giving the Philippine candidate the highest point of 9,95 for her fluid interpretation of the Barraza original.
Shamcey also stood out in the swimsuit competition:
Pageant experts are calling her the “runway diva” because during the swimsuit preliminary, Shamcey owned the stage. Global Beauties gave her a score of 9,79 in this category which is good for no. 2 among 89 contestants. Miss Greece scored a little higher with 9,83.
Meanwhile, Shamcey is still at the no. 1 position in the poll being conducted by latin website Telemundo beating latina beauties like Miss Venezuela, Miss Nicaragua, Miss Mexico, Miss Puerto Rico, Miss Dominican Republic and Miss Brazil. Shamcey has topped this poll even before the start of Miss Universe 2011. She now has 2,000,343 votes to date.
For being the people’s choice and at the same time receiving rave reviews from pageant experts around the world, it is safe to assume that Shamcey Supsup is a shoo-in for the Miss Universe crown. By her performance alone in the preliminaries, she’s all set to duplicate Venus Raj‘s Top 5 feat last year and she might even surpass that. Who knows, Shamcey might become the 3rd Miss Universe winner from the Philippines so keep on praying for her.
Ground Zero to present, from the rubble of the World Trade Center one month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to 10 years after, time-lapse photography with the stories of individuals are shown in the feature-length documentary about 9/11 in “Rebirth.”
Here is the description of the docu-film:
Project Rebirth’s film, REBIRTH, is a full-length documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2011. It is the result of a decade-long process by director Jim Whitaker and is a riveting journey into living history. It is also an act of personal witness to one of the most profound events in American history and the healing that has come its wake.
From early 2002 through 2009, the REBIRTH film crew chronicled the lives of five people directly affected by 9/11. The participants include a survivor from an impact floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC); a firefighter who survived the collapse of the WTC but lost his best friend; a high school student who lost his mother; a young woman who lost her fiancé; and a construction worker who lost his brother, assisted with recovery efforts, and is presently helping to build the Freedom Tower. Their narratives are the thread of recovery and resiliency from grief, loss and trauma that comprise the unique message of the film.
REBIRTH also simultaneously tracks – via unprecedented multi-camera time-lapse photography – the evolution of the former WTC and the entire rebuilding of the site. Though the film captures the minute-by-minute demolition and redevelopment of the WTC site until 2009, Project Rebirth will continue the time-lapse element of the project until the site is completed in its entirety. Please visit our Time-Lapse Project + Film Archive tab and page to learn more about this important element of our project. Philip Glass composed REBIRTH original score.
“Rebirth” is currently in US theaters and will appear on Showtime Sunday night, the 10th anniversary of 9/11. For more information, visit projectrebirth.org
Check out our Top 15 picks for the most photogenic candidates in this year’s Miss Universe pageant.
This year’s glam shots for Miss Universe has a carnival theme which is very Brazilian, I must say. All the 89 photographs taken by Fadil Berisha were amazing! Check out my Top 15 picks…
Rumor has it that our delegate Shamcey Supsup was the only candidate to be called back for a second round of interviews by the preliminary judges of Miss Universe 2011.
According to local pageant website OPMB who sent a coverage team in Sao Paulo, Shamcey is rumored to be the only candidate to be called back for a 2nd round of interviews with the judges. 1/3 of the total score of the contestants will come from the personality interview (1/3 from swimsuit and 1/3 from evening gown).
Let’s hope it’s a good thing that Shamcey was interviewed twice. They’ve seen the next Miss Universe in her perhaps?
On the picture above are the “P” candidates (l-r) Viviana Ortiz (Miss Puerto Rico), Laura Goncalvez (Miss Portugal), Rozalia Mancewicz (Miss Poland) and Shamcey Supsup (Miss Philippines). Misses Peru and Panama, who are equally strong as the other P-ladies, were already through with their interviews when this picture was taken.
Ground Zero to present, from the rubble of the World Trade Center one month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to 10 years after, time-lapse photography with the stories of individuals are shown in the feature-length documentary “Rebirth.”
Here is the description of the docu-film:
Project Rebirth’s film, REBIRTH, is a full-length documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2011. It is the result of a decade-long process by director Jim Whitaker and is a riveting journey into living history. It is also an act of personal witness to one of the most profound events in American history and the healing that has come its wake.
From early 2002 through 2009, the REBIRTH film crew chronicled the lives of five people directly affected by 9/11. The participants include a survivor from an impact floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC); a firefighter who survived the collapse of the WTC but lost his best friend; a high school student who lost his mother; a young woman who lost her fiancé; and a construction worker who lost his brother, assisted with recovery efforts, and is presently helping to build the Freedom Tower. Their narratives are the thread of recovery and resiliency from grief, loss and trauma that comprise the unique message of the film.
REBIRTH also simultaneously tracks – via unprecedented multi-camera time-lapse photography – the evolution of the former WTC and the entire rebuilding of the site. Though the film captures the minute-by-minute demolition and redevelopment of the WTC site until 2009, Project Rebirth will continue the time-lapse element of the project until the site is completed in its entirety. Please visit our Time-Lapse Project + Film Archive tab and page to learn more about this important element of our project. Philip Glass composed REBIRTH original score.
“Rebirth” is currently in theaters and will appear on Showtime Sunday night, the 10th anniversary of 9/11. For more information, visit projectrebirth.org
The Miss Universe preliminaries are over and our very own Shamcey Supsup was selected by popular pageant website Global Beauties as the Most Elegant or the Best in Evening Gown.
Global Beauties scored all 89 candidates during the evening gown competition in the preliminaries. Scores were based on elegance, stage presence, gown choice, and beauty. The contestant with the highest average score of 9,95 is no other than our very own, Miss Philippines, Shamcey Supsup!
Here is their list of Top 16 in Evening Gown:
1. Philippines, Shamcey Supsup 2. Malaysia 3. Greece 4. France 5. Puerto Rico 6. Mexico 7. Australia 8. Ukraine 9. china 10. Paraguay 11. spain 12. Angola 13. USA 14. Trinidad and Tobago 15. Peru 16. Kosovo
The Miss Universe 2011 coronation night is happening on September 12 in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Happy Feet penguin, the Emperor penguin which was washed up on a beach near Wellington in New Zealand in mid-June and became a global sensation, was released back into the Southern Ocean on Sunday, September 5, to begin a long swim home to Antarctica.
Happy Feet weighs 27.5 kilograms (60.5 pounds). The penguin was released into the water from the New Zealand fisheries vessel Tangaroa near Campbell Island, about 700 kilometres (435 miles) south of New Zealand’s South Island.
His home in Antarctica is about 2,000 kilometres further south and it is expected he will join up with other emperor penguins on the long voyage.
The three-and-a-half-year-old Happy Feet had travelled south in a custom-made crate designed to keep him cold and comfortable during the voyage.
Previously:
A young Emperor penguin which was washed up on a New Zealand beach after straying thousands of miles from home created buzz on the internet.
The penguin, named “Happy Feet” by the Wellington Zoo, has been living in New Zealand since June and it’s set to head back to the sub-Antarctic on August 29 in a specially designed cage aboard a research vessel.
The penguin will be released from the ship about four days out at sea, en route to its final destination.
“Happy Feet” has captured the hearts of New Zealanders and people across the world after it turned up on a beach some 2,500 miles from its home, only the second Emperor penguin known to have shown up in New Zealand ever.
A giant crocodile captured in Agusan del Sur in the Philippines last Saturday, September 2, is believed to be the biggest captive crocodile to date.
The said Philippine adult male crocodile, measuring 21 ft or 6.4 meters long, was captured alive along a creek by crocodile farm staff and residents in Bunawan in Agusan del Sur. It we are to check the records, the Philippine crocodile is the biggest so far.
Giant Crocodile captured in Agusan del Sur, Philippines Photo Credit: Associated Press
Two larger certifiable records of the biggest crocodiles in the world are both of 6.2 metres (20 ft) adult crocodiles. The first crocodile was shot in the Mary River in the Northern Territory of Australia in 1974 by poachers and measured by wildlife rangers.
The second crocodile was killed in 1983 in the Fly River, Papua New Guinea. In the case of the second crocodile it was actually the skin that was measured by zoologist Jerome Montague, and as skins are known to underestimate the size of the actual animal, it is possible this crocodile was at least another 10 cm longer.
The largest crocodile ever held in captivity, on the other hand, is an Estuarine–Siamese hybrid named Yai (meaning “big” in Thai) which was born on June 10,1972, at the famous Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo in Thailand. This animal measures 6 m (19.69 ft) (19 ft 8 in) in length and weighs 1114.27 kg.
The largest captive crocodile alive in the US is located in South Carolina. In June 2002, Alligator Adventure introduced Utan, born in 1964 in Thailand. At 20 feet (6.1 m) long and weighing in at more than a ton, “Utan”, the largest crocodile to ever be exhibited in the United States resides in Myrtle Beach.
The records are set to be changed as the giant crocodile which was captured in Agusan del Sur over the weekend has a measurement of 6.4 meters, by far the biggest if it becomes official.
Captured alive, the giant crocodile weighs around 2,370 pounds or 1,075 kilograms.
According to the town Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde it took almost 100 people to place the reptile in a fenced cage. The mayor also said that they are planning to build an eco-tourism park for species found in a vast marshland in Agusan (an impoverished region about 515 miles southeast of Manila) featuring the giant crocodile which is about to become the biggest captive crocodile in the world.
The giant crocodile was first seen by local farm villagers killing a water buffalo (carabao) last month and was also suspected of having attacked a fisherman who went missing in July, according to reports.
After they spotted the giant reptile, villagers and members of the crocodile farm staff set four traps, which the giant crocodile destroyed. They then used sturdier traps using steel cables, one of which finally caught the giant crocodile late Saturday.
