Miss World Top Model 2009

Miss World Top Model 2009 : MEXICO - Perla Beltran

1st Runner Up : VIETNAM - Tran Thi Huong Giang

2nd Runner Up : MARTINIQUE - Ingrid Littré

Top 12 : Barbados, France, Italy, Jamaica, Panama, Malaysia, Scotland, South Africa, Turkey


World Designer Dress 2009 : SIERRA LEONE - Mariatu Kargbo

1st Runner Up : SOUTH AFRICA - Tatum Keshwar

2nd Runner Up : JAMAICA - Kerrie Baylis

Top 12 : Barbados, China PR, France, Italy, Korea, Moldova, Panama, Puerto Rico, Turkey


The Top Model final took place at The Turbine Hall, Johannesburg on 28 November 2009 along with World Designer Dress final. During the event, the contestants first appeared on the runway wearing evening gowns designed by their home country designer. After the first catwalk, Sierra Leone is announced as the winner of World Designer Dress for an amazing crystal emblazed design with ornate patterning, designed by Sierra Leone designer Dany Tabet. The contestants then appeared once again on the runway, this time in gold evening gowns designed by South African designer. This time Mexico takes the honor as the winner of Top Model 2009 and joins Canada, Gibraltar, Japan, and Sierra Leone as Miss World 2009 semifinalists.

Congrats Perla! Our current Aphrodite at Miss World Leaderboard!

Miss International 2009 Result

Miss International 2009 : MEXICO - Anagabriela Espinoza

First Runner Up : KOREA - Seo Eun Mi

Second Runner Up : UNITED KINGDOM - Chloe Beth Morgan

Semifinalists
BELARUS - Yana Supranovich
BELGIUM - Cassandra D'Ermilio
BRAZIL - Rayanne Morais
CANADA - Chanel Beckenlehner
CUBA - Patricia Rosales
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Victoria Fernández
FINLAND - Linda Wikstedt
JAPAN - Yuka Nakayama
PANAMA - Joyce Jacobi
PHILIPPINES - Melody Gersbach
SPAIN - Melanie Santiago
VENEZUELA - Laksmi Rodriguez

Special Awards
• Best National Costume : HONDURAS - Kenia Andrade
• Miss Photogenic : KOREA - Seo Eun Mi
• Miss Friendship : CHINA - Wang Qian
• Miss Mobile Beauty : UNITED STATES - Aileen Yapp
• Miss Internet Beauty : MOLDOVA - Catalina Stascu

Miss International 2009 Part 3 : Final Leaderboard

With only several hours before the crowning of Miss International 2009, here is our final say about who are our sweet heart favorites.

Mexico remains strong in the first position, followed by Brazil and Venezuela. Spain jumps into 5th position, earning her the title of the sweetest from Europe, while Japan overtakes Philippines as the sweetest from Asia in 7th place. Nicaragua stumbles and falls into 11th place, while Russia and Poland enter the Leaderboard as our new sweet heart favorites.

Stay tune for the result of Miss International tonight and find out if our choice indeed make the cut!

Miss World Beach Beauty 2009

Miss World Beach Beauty 2009 : GIBRALTAR - Kaiane Aldorino

1st Runner Up : PANAMA - Nadege Herrera

2nd Runner Up : SCOTLAND - Katharine Brown

3rd Runner Up : FRANCE - Chloe Mortaud

4th Runner Up : BOLIVIA - Flavia Foianini

Top 12 : Barbados, Indonesia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Vietnam, Zimbabwe

Top 20 : Croatia, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Jamaica, Korea, Namibia, United States, Uruguay

The Beach Beauty final took place at Zimbali Resort, Durban on 25 November 2009. Prior to this event, the judges has initially selected 44 candiadtes who were reduced into 20 semifinalists during the final round. The 20 lucky girls paraded in gold swimsuits as a homage to this year Miss World final host city, Johannesburg, the city of gold. The judges were supposed to choose only 10 finalists but due to a tie, they decided to pick Top 12 instead. Out of these 12 hot girls, Gibraltar is eventually chosen as the best body of the year and crowned Beach Beauty 2009.

This prestigious Fast Track event is marked with some significant "first time ever" histories. The victory of Gibraltar makes this tiny Mediterranean nation to enter Miss World semifinal for the first time. Also our own nation, Indonesia, is included in Beach Beauty final list for the first time ever!

Congratulations Gibraltar! See you in the next Fast Track event ... Top Model ... this weekend!

The Judges Behind "The Pantheon of Beauty" and "The Sweet Heart Ladies"

Now it's time to introduce our honorary judges for both Miss World 2009 and Miss International 2009 Leaderboard ... lets start with the Miss World Leaderboard judges first ...

Angga RS ... hardcore pageant fans
Ardyvanviesta ... hardcore pageant fans and coordinator for IP Forum's "Rate The Beauty" and "Pageant Prediction" game
Fikriblast ... hardcore pageant fans (again)
Dudi / Inu ... vice coordinator for IP Forum's "Rate The Beauty" and "Pageant Prediction" game
Joo Chan ... Runner Up of "IPNTM" Cycle 1
Nursasongko ... one of the founders of IP community
and finally ... Moon Gin ... your Leaderboard coordinator!

And now here are our judges for Miss International Leaderboard ...

Angga RS ... hardcore pageant fans
Ardyvanviesta ... hardcore pageant fans and coordinator for IP Forum's "Rate The Beauty" and "Pageant Prediction" game
Bunda Sean ... our lovely mother figure from Canada
Jake ... our lovely member from Philippines and Runner Up of "IPNTM" Cycle 2
Bayyu ... one of the founders of IP community
Nursasongko ... also a founder of IP community
and finally ... Moon Gin ... your Leaderboard coordinator!

Miss World 2009 Part 4 : Second Leaderboard

Due to the recent announcement of Miss World having Top 20 semifinalists and the tie result of Talent fast track, our "Pantheon of Beauty" this week sees a bit of change with the addition of Eris tier and more contestants (21 of them) included in the hot list. We suspect (and hope) the tie result may cause one more contestant to make the cut, just like the Asia Pacific tie in 2006 and Beauty with a Purpose tie in 2007. Therefore our Pantheon includes not only 20 but the lucky number 21 in the list.

However, despite all this changes, one thing remain the same. Mexico still leads the Pantheon as the Goddess of Beauty, Aphrodite. She is followed closely by Athena's France and South Africa. Barbados and Ukraine levitate into higher tier while Puerto Rico and Slovakia are falling into lower tier.

Stay tune for the third Leaderboard next week to see if Mexico is still able to retain her precious Golden Apple in our hot list!

Miss International 2009 Part 2 : First Leaderboard

"Beauty is a sweet thing" and with that motto in our mind, we proudly present the first Leaderboard for Miss International 2009. The girls who make our list here are indeed "sweet delicacies" whose sweetness has pierced our heart. Some of them, however, are sweeter than the other. Therefore we classify these girls into 3 tier of sweetness ... sweet, sweeter, and of course sweetest.

Out of 66 contestants of Miss International 2009, Latinas flavor seems to be the sweetest for our judges' taste as our Top 5 ladies are all Latinas, led by former Miss World 2008 semifinalist, Mexico in 1st place. Slovakia is the sweetest girl from Europe in 6th place while Philippines is the sweetest girl from Asia in 8th place. Sadly enough, once again, we don't have African flavor in our Leaderboard. But next week, hopefully, the girls from Africa may prove that they are worthy enough to be included in our list.

Stay tune for our second Leaderboard and find out which ladies remain sweet in our taste this Saturday!

Miss Earth 2009 Result

Miss Earth 2009 : BRAZIL - Larissa Ramos

Miss Earth Air : PHILIPPINES - Sandra Ines Seifert

Miss Earth Water : VENEZUELA - Jesicca Barboza

Miss Earth Fire : SPAIN - Alejandra Echevarria

Finalists
COLOMBIA - Alejandra Castillo Murena
MARTINIQUE - Pascale Nelide
POLAND - Izabela Wilczek
THAILAND - Rujinan Phanseethum

Semifinalists
FRANCE - Magalie Thierry
INDIA - Shriya Kishore
GEORGIA - Nona Diakonidze
KOREA - Park Ye Ju
NORTHERN IRELAND - Kayleigh O'Reilly
PARAGUAY - Gabriela Rejala
SINGAPORE - Valerie Lim
SOUTH AFRICA - Chanel Grantham

Special Awards
• Miss Photogenic : CZECH REPUBLIC - Tereza Budkova
• Miss Friendship : SWITZERLAND - Graziella Rogers
• Miss Talent : TAHITI - Niuriki Teremate
• Best National Costume : TANZANIA - Evelyne Almasi
• Best In Swimsuit : PHILIPPINES - Sandra Ines Seifert
• Best In Long Gown : PHILIPPINES - Sandra Ines Seifert

Miss World Talent 2009

Miss World Talent 2009 : CANADA - Lena Ma / SIERRA LEONE - Mariatu Kargbo

1st Runner Up : KOREA - Kim Joo Ri

2nd Runner Up : NORWAY - Orsolya Serdült

3rd Runner Up : AUSTRALIA - Sara Skjoldnes

Top 22 : Albania, Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Gibraltar, Guyana, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mauritius, Serbia, Spain, Suriname, Thailand, Zimbabwe


The Talent final took place at Victoria Theatre, Johannesburg on 22 November 2009 where 22 chosen finalists showcased their talent in front of judges panel. The show concluded with Canada and Sierra Leone crowned as joint winners. Canada sang her way to the final with a rendention of a classical song while Sierra Leone showed a cross cultural performance with a Chinese mask dance and fire breathing routine that she learnt during the six months she spent in China. Both girls are now in semifinal round of Miss World and will perform live during the final.

Miss Indonesia, Kerenina Sunny Halim, is also selected as one of the Top 22 performers of Talent night. She performed a hip hop inspired modern dance in a sexy black costume!



Congratulations Canada and Sierra Leone!

Nadine Zamira in Action Part 4

Finally our final sets of Nadine's pics in Philippines. After 3 weeks of various activities, tonight is the big night and we all pray and hope the best for you, Nadine!

Special thanks to Yel Santos for all the pics!

Miss Earth 2009 Part 7 : Final Leaderboard

The final set of our Leaderboard is marked with the return of Philippines into Queen of Earth tier after moving down into one lower tier last week. Philippines impress us with a very strong performance during the final week, as she wins both Best in Swimsuit and Best in Long Gown awards. A new entrant for this ultimate tier is Czech Republic, probably the best European delegate this year and winner of Miss Photogenic award, while Cuba and Venezuela remain as the Top 2 strongest girls in our scoreboard.

Other rising stars this week are Poland, now in Queen of Air tier, and newcomer Jamaica, now in Queen of Fire tier. On the other hand some other girls lose a glimpse of their spark and move down in the rank. Previously strong contender USA is now only in Queen of Air tier, while our rising star last week, Georgia, is sunk into Queen of Water tier.

Overall, European girls dominate the final Leaderboard, followed by the Americans, Asians, and Caribbeans. Sadly there is not a single African girl enlisted in our Leaderboard. In our opinion, the black beauties from Africa are simply overshadowed by their Caribbean counterpart. There is not much buzz about African beauties this year, with the exception of South Sudan, who captures everybody's atention thanks to her statuesque figure. Therefore they lose their spot in our Top 18 hottest list.

So this is it! The final Leaderboard ... check out the result of Miss Earth 2009 tonight and find out if our judges make the right choice!

Nadine Zamira in Action Part 3

Stay tune for the last part of Nadine's action in Philippines! Thanks for our lovely member Yel Santos for the photos!

Miss Earth 2009 Part 6 : The Awards Continue

A total of 9 new awards have been presented to some contestants of Miss Earth 2009. Here is our second part review about the awards and their winners so far in the competition.

16 November 2009
Three major awards and five minor awards are presented during the Final Long Gown competition at PAGCOR Grand Theater, Paranaque City.


• Miss Jubilee President's Foundation : Sandra Seifert (Philippines)
• Miss ASVCOR : Mariel Garcia (Dominican Republic)
• Miss HDR Management : Izabela Wilczek (Poland)
• Miss Eagle Express : Park Ye Ju (Korea)
• Miss Asei : Park Ye Ju (Korea)


• Best in Long Gown : Sandra Seifert (Philippines)
• Miss Photogenic : Tereza Budkova (Czech Republic)
• Miss Friendship : Graziella Rogers (Switzerland)

Philippines was chosen as the winner out of Top 15 semifinalists of Long Gown competition. The semifinalists for this event are :

• Group 1 : Colombia, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, Venezuela
• Group 2 : India, Italy, Korea, Philippines, USA
• Group 3 : Brazil, Guam, Mexico, Paraguay, Thailand

17 November 2009
One major award is presented during the Final Talent competition at Rose Memorial Auditorium, Central Philippine University, Iloilo City.

• Miss Talent : Niuriki Teremate (Tahiti)

Sporty Nina

More pics of Nina during Miss World Sports event ...

Nina during soccer penalty kick event

Nina during relay race event

Nina and her team mates of King African Penguin group.

Miss World Sports 2009

Miss World Sports 2009 : JAPAN - Eruka Sazaki

1st Runner Up : JAMAICA - Kerrie Bayslis

2nd Runner Up : HUNGARY - Orsolya Serdült

Top 6 : India, Latvia, Venezuela

Top 12 : Australia, Gibraltar, Puerto Rico, Sierra Leone, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay


The 112 contestants were divided into 4 teams and competed in a preliminary event held on November 17 where 10 best girl from each team advance to Top 40. The final for this event was held on November 18 at Nelson Mandela Stadium, Port Elizabeth. During the final event, the 40 remaining contestants were tested in a series of team sport challenges (soccer penalty shot, obstacle course, and relay race) before being trimmed down to Top 12 semifinalists and finally Top 6 finalists. The semifinalists and finalists then competed in two individual events (assault course and 100-meter sprint) and Japan comes up as the top Miss World sportswoman this year.

Our very own Nina is selected as one of the 10 best girls for her team King African Penguin and compete in Top 40 team challenge round. Her team is also awarded as the best sport team.

Nina and her winning King African Penguin teams

Congratulations Japan! Our first Miss World 2009 semifinalist!

FINALIS KOKO CICI JAKARTA 2009

Nadine Zamira in Action Part 2

Stay tune for the third and fourth part if Nadine's action in Miss Earth 2009!

Special thanks to our lovely member, Yel Santos, for the photos!