Got a massive blackberry messenger message lately from many relatives, talking about Indonesia participation in the Oldest International Pageant, Miss Universe in this 2010.
So, the chosen lady this year from Indonesia, Qory Sandioriva, has already gain her controversial from the very first performance in Puteri Indonesia 2009 (Here in Indonesia we couldnt translate “Puteri Indonesia” into “Miss Indonesia”, since there is two different national pageant, Puteri Indonesia and Miss Indonesia, long story short, Puteri Indonesia Winner would be send to Miss Universe while Miss Indonesia Winner would be send to Miss World). Back to Qory, this beautiful lady that represent Aceh in Puteri Indonesia said in final route, live in national television, that she didnt use veil in that competition because she thinks hair is something beautiful. (This is matters for Indonesia people that mostly moslems for putting away the veil for joining such beauty pageant).
What could I say, in fact, she never use veil in her daily activity, yes she has Aceh’s blood but she live in Jakarta from the day she was born. So, people this girl is nervous on the stage so she just said whatever in her mind, that she thinks would be a beautiful answer! What I know, the Puteri Indonesia winner would be have full trainee for a year, contains from beauty class, gym class, english class, culture and art class and general knowledge class. All in the first quality package. So I think Yayasan Puteri Indonesia would make a “well done” version of Qory for Miss Universe 2010.
Have you ever heard about the horse, father and boy story?
So there is a father with his boy going to the market to buy a horse. After they got the horse they want and decide to go home.
1) Firstly, the father put his boy in to the horse and walk, people said what an unmanner boy, he let his old father walk.
2) the father change the position, now he is riding the horse, while the boy’s walking, people said what a poor boy, his father didn’t care of him.
3) then, Two of them ride the horse together, people said they dont have heart, let the pity horse get tired.
4) lThey both walk beside the horse, people said they fool, there is a horse, but they didnt use it.
people in my bbm talking that Qory saved Nadine (Nadine Chandrawinata, Puteri Indonesia 2006) cause her awful english make a shame of Indonesia. They said Qory even worse than Nadine!
Somehow, somewhen, there will always some people judging, no matter how brilliant we are! they always find and try to expose silly things about something they dont like. We as a human, sometimes do mistake also, so we should have a very open minded head to see things. No need to judge. It is simply the judge’s job. Or greater, it is God’s Job.
I dont think Qory’s answer is a good answer for sure, but I appreciate and respect her choice to answer the challenge to participate in Miss Universe 2010, something global. It’s not something easy!
Although, there is some paradigm I fell nowadays, the line between smart or not smoothly changing into you are smart enough if you can speak english fluently. Well, I can’t fully againts it, since most of failure not coming from the lack of knowledge but the lack of communication skill. Oh well.
