Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email This year’s edition of Miss MalaysianIndian Global sees a trio of 20-year olds grab the top positions. Winner was Fiona Zuzartee (her dad’s Portuguese while mother is Indian). Can’t find her blog but she’s in Facebook (just type her name…). But her sister blogs.
Fiona is an an international hotel and tourism management degree from Kolej Damansara Utama (hmm..degree holders are getting younger by the day!)
Fiona Zuzartee decided that she would take part in the Miss MalaysiaIndian Global pageant because it was a “beauty contest” with a difference.
“It had no bearing on beauty. Rather, it was about empowering women,” said the 20-year-old who beat 16 other contestants to become the Miss MalaysiaIndian Global 2008 at the KLCC last night.
Zuzartee, who aspires to be pilot, did not expect to win at all. She’s into conservation and all:
“Our forests play a major part in balancing the ecosystem. Carbon dioxide is one of the main contributors to global warming and it is the trees that help to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through photosynthesis,” she said.
“Apart from that, they also help control floods and prevent erosion, which are some of the major natural disasters we face nowadays.”
She won RM5,000 worth of jewellery and RM5,000 worth of Persian carpets.
Medical student Sowmya Krishnan, 20, was first runner-up, winning RM3,000 worth of jewellery, while business student R. Gayathiri, 20, was the second runner-up, winning RM2,000 in jewellery.
The contest was organised by the Miss MalaysiaIndia Care Association, a non-profit organisation.
