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The Transcript (Miss Indonesia)
1.8.06

Can You Count How Many Mistakes that Nadine (Miss Indonesia) Made in Her Interviews?

This post is just for fun. I have no intention to make fun of Miss Indonesia though.
I got an email from my friend and I just did checking where it actually came from. So this one is from someone's blog. I simply copied it down.

What do you like to do in your spare time?
I like to do in my sparetime is going out with my friends, with my family
and sharing with the children like doing some act.. doing some
activities..eh..eh.. in social work, like campaign for them and campaign
for against discrimination of women, something like that.

What do you see yourself doing 10 years from now?
I see myself in 10 years a..eh. I see myself in 10 years later simply as a
Nadine and eh..doing something like or eh?being more mature and express or
explore myself and my potential and doing something for anyone el.. doing
something for me and everyone.. like I want to work for the Unicef so i can
be more active and give more attention for them.

Who is your idol?
My admi.. my admirer is mother Theresa, because ? she is so humble for me
and she had, she has a beautiful or ? wonderful personality. So I really ..
adore at? at her.. hehehe.

Your friends say you are?
My friends tells that I am friendly, easy going person, just simply person,
ordinary person and patient.

What do you want the rest of the world to know about your country?
Indonesia is a beautiful city.. so, you should go there to visit by
yourself, because we have a lot of beautiful beaches and the spectacular
mountain and? dramatic of history and? so the people. Because people of
Indonesia is really? is really welcome eh.. and really friendly because
they like to know more about other country, other belief, other ideas?.so,
come to Indonesia and feel it and we open?we open our arms to come to
Indonesia.

Well, I don't know what to say. I was spending my time during lecture on reading hundreds of comments about her suitability to be crowned as Miss Indonesia. In brief, there are so many pro and contra arguments about it. In my opinion, Miss universe candidates must be able to speak English properly. Some minor grammar mistakes are tolerated; having an accent as well. But NO NO if the whole world (or dari sabang sampai merauke) may have laughed at her.

I am not saying that my English is better than hers or what... I notice that I often made grammar mistakes and said 'alien' words (wrong pronunciation) whereby my dear housemates cannot understand at all (e.g. 'procedure' may become 'prostitute'). And I have no courage at all to speak chinese even though I know Chinese words. But its just Annice's opinion... the 'expert' linguist =P.

Annice @ 9:07 pm
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