a pageant talent display actually worth watching
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
This is by far the weirdest, most entertaining, and simply the best talent display at a beauty pageant that I’ve ever seen.1
That’s Lisa Wong, the winner of this year’s Narcissus pageant2 . I feel mildly proud of myself for recognizing the character with which she stamps her work in her final flourish3 , and mildly amused that it’s also the last name of a ton of my friends. Wong or Huang (黄) is apparently the 7th most common surname in China4 . Score yet another win for the Wongs, perhaps both the world’s largest and most talented family.
Happy year of the Ox y’all!
- Props to the blog angryasianman for introducing me to this great find. [↩]
- a pageant thrown by the Hawaiian Chinese Chamber of Commerce [↩]
- my pride tempered by the fact that it’s a really common character, it’s the word for the color “yellow” [↩]
- Wang (王), meaning “King”, is apparently the 8th most common surname in China [↩]
