Miss Tiffany's Universe 2011 Is...

I am way late with this post.  Slipped my mind when May rolled around that it was Miss Tiffany's Universe pageant time in Pattaya and needed to do my annual 'who won it' post.   Another reason I was probably distracted from it because it was held May 2-6.

That's my birthday week people, so cut me some slack. 

Well, time to stop make excuses for why my Miss Tiffany's post is popping up on the blog in late July and get to it.  The envelope please..

The winner of Miss Tiffany's Universe 2011 is 10 year old Sirapasson “Sammy” Atthayakorn, a third year student at the Faculty of Humanities, Ramkhamhaeng University.  She won the diamond studded tiara, 120,000 baht ($4014 USD).  a Toyota Yaris car and use of a luxury pattaya apartment for a year.

The first runner-up was 23-year-old student Saranrat “Nat” Chaiyakorn, took home 100,000 baht ($3345 USD) while second runner-up, Tissanamadi “Gigi” Bunniyom, won 20,000 baht. ($670 USD)

The Miss Tiffany's Universe is the Thai-only trans pageant in which the finals night is not only televised live on Thai television, it chooses the person who will represent Thailand at the Miss International Queen Pageant.

That pageant like the Miss Tiffany's Universe one is also sponsored by Tiffany's Cabaret and opened to the rest of the world's transwomen. 

And oh yeah, the winner and runners-up of Miss Tiffany Universe as you noticed get cash and prizes.. In addition to Sammy getting the diamond studded crown and the cash and prize package, she will represent Thailand in the upcoming Miss International Queen pageant scheduled to take place November 4.   

We'll find out in a few months if Sammy has what it takes to bring the Miss International Queen crown back to Thailand after being captured by Japanese and Korean winners the last two years.  

The Host City For The 2018 Winter Olympics Is...

"The International Olympic Committee has the honor of announcing that the 23rd Olympic Winter Games in 2018 are awarded to the city of Pyeongchang."

With those words spoken by IOC president Jacques Rogge after opening a sealed envelope, cheers erupted amongst the Korean IOC delegates in the conference hall

The third time was the charm in its quest to bring the Winter Games to Korea.   PyeyongChang was considered the favorite going into the IOC meeting in Durban, South Africa to determine who would be the host city for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.

The city beat out its competitors Munich, Germany and Annecy, France for the honor on the first ballot, something that hasn't happened since Salt Lake City won the right to host the 2002 games on the first ballot in 1995.    PyeyongChang received 65 votes, easily surpassing the 48 votes majority required out of the 95 eligible IOC delegates to win.

Munich, Germany, which was trying to become the first city to host both the winter an the summer Games was second with 25 votes and Annecy, France received only 7 votes. 

The national delegations bidding for the Games aren't allowed to vote, and had PyeyongChang not gotten a t majority, Annecy would have been eliminated as the city with the lowest number of votes (as Chicago painfully remembers) and another round of voting would have occurred until a candidate city received a majority.    .  


PyeongChang was a frustrated bridesmaid to Vancouver and Sochi in its previous bids for the 2010 and 2014 Games.  It lost by three votes to Vancouver for the 2010 Games despite handily winning the first round of voting and by four votes to Sochi for right to host the 2014 Games.    

PyeyongChang's changes were looking good because the 2014 Games are being held in Europe, there were two European finalists and the IOC is loath to put them on the same continent in back to back Olympiads.   The IOC is also wanting to put the winter and summer games in terriitories where they haven't been before, and both times the Winter Games came to Asia in 1972 an 1998, Japan has hosted them in sapporo and Nagano

Today was PyeyongChang's day, and after their mayor receives the Antwerp Flag at the closing ceremonies in Sochi, they and all of Korea will be looking forward to February 9-25, 2018, the dates for the 23rd Olympic Winter Games.  

And for the cities that lost, there's always the 2022 games.   The IOC makes the decison who gets them in 2015.

The Trans Flight Attendants Of PC Air

Remember when I wrote about the Thai startup airline that garnered lots of media attention by planning to hire trans flight attendants?    Thought it was time for an update on the story and the airline that was supposed to be starting service to Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Osaka, China and South Korea in March.

PC Air has a web page up but has yet to make their flight schedule public.

According to various news reports there were 100 Thai transwomen who applied for the flight attendant jobs and four were hired.

The four ladies chosen were Nathatai Sukkaset, 26, Dissanai Chitpraphachin, 24, Chayathisa Nakmai, 24 and Phuntakarn Sringern, 24.    One of the interesting footnotes in this initial class of trans flight attendants is that Dissanai is a 2007 Miss Tiffany's titleholder.

PC Air's Peter Chan is quoted as saying he will hire more trans flight attendants, but he might want to concentrate on getting his airline up and flying first and making money .  

Those pictures are of the hair and makeup training sessions for the PC Air flight attendants.    Will keep an eye on this ongoing story to see if PC Air ever takes off from Bangkok to any of the Asian destinations they wish to serve with our Thai transsisters providing quality customer service along the way.

Trans In India Documentary

Another interesting piece of YouTube video I discovered while surfing for trans documentaries.concerning trans people in India.