In LA

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!

1. Props to the blog angryasianman for introducing me to this great find. [↩]
2. a pageant thrown by the Hawaiian Chinese Chamber of Commerce [↩]
3. my pride tempered by the fact that it’s a really common character, it’s the word for the color “yellow” [↩]
4. Wang (王), meaning “King”, is apparently the 8th most common surname in China [↩]

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 31st, 2009 at 2:58 am and is filed under Amusing, Chinese language, Video. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.