A Miss Hong Kong contestant complains that she was treated poorly by TVB in the first interview
Monday June 8, 2009 Hong Kong
Translated by: Matchbox @ [url="http://mediachamber.net"]http://mediachamber.net[/url]

Miss Hong Kong's slogan has always been "Beautiful and Intelligent". But earlier the girls that turned up for the auditions were below standard. Apple Daily received an English e-mail from a contestant that attended the first interview named Lucy. She stated that the judges treated her poorly. The judges suggested her English was below standard which she found unfair. In the email she used the words "Hurt Die Me". The Co-ordinating manager for the pageant Chan Ka Yeung denied and said "Definitley not, the company will always pay attention to courtesy. Perhaps the contestant didn't get through the next round and was unhappy about it."

TVB executive Virginia Lok also denied treating the contestants poorly. She said "6 Contestants are grouped together to face the judges in the first interview. Normally we just ask them very general questions such as "Why do you want to enter Miss Hong Kong?" and "Which part of your body do you like most or dislike? We will see what reaction and answers they give us. Perhaps the contestant was too nervous."

[b]Lucy's E-mail[/b]

The Contestant's e-mail contained a lot of Hong Kong English (港式英語),

[color="#0000FF"]我 是 Lucy, I went to Miss Hong Kong first interview. Wah d judges very not polite and not nice law. Today I see a megazine saying this year's Girls so ugly. I saw many good and pretty girls there but they didn't choose ja ma. Don't choose mei suen law but the judge in first interview -- most very not polite to many young girls and to to me law. I only 18 the judges ask me to "why join Miss HK go and why not study la u only F7 ja wor how can fright with other wor." Also say my English bad … hurt die me.
Ho La, other girl tell me la, she study in University ok ga dou but little fat or short then the judge (woman) said " why you look fat or so short!" wah ho hurt ga ma.
One girl is a 博 士 student ar very high level and very nice ga dou cant get in second interview la. We think she will be in ga but she said no law. You can search her pic and my pic to see la. She gum high level duo ng dak, gum me ng duk duo rite gei but i think the whole choosing is not fair law, choose model mei? young yao inch', high study level yao inch, short yao inch … They onky choose rich girl law so bad.
We don't go and let them inch ga law if they need tall or high level people then why not put in the application form lei.
Waste time !
dou ng fair gei!
u can email me if u want.
Lucy[/color]

wow her english is horrible...
she should stop adding the chinese to it if its written in english -.- for example the "law, wor, la" etc she has to stop using them. Also her sentences don't really make sense like its supose to. Also when in the e-mail it said "hurt die me" it didn't even make sense. The judges are right her English is bad.

man, not only her english is horrible
but if this is suppose to be a complain letter, shouldnt she be more formal
using such slang and online language showed how immature and stupid she is

i'm sorry, is that english that i'm reading? Lucy's paragraph I mean.
95% of that bs is like.... is that suppose to be some chinglish slang words?
If she think beauty pageant is all about the outer look... well, she's wrong...
apparently, she "might" be pretty, but her inner beauty is not-so-great.
one word to describe her: naive (i hope she know what's naive).

This post has been edited by ^_DBSK_^: 09 June 2009 - 12:20 AM

haha this is so funny....hard to understand what she is trying to say, gosh hurt my eyes.

That definitely is "Hong Kong style English." The problem with the e-mail is... she's writing down in English what she would say in Cantonese... that's a big no no, especially if this is a "complaint." I think her complaint would have been taken more seriously if it was in proper (formal) english, not this chinglish stuff.

If the interviewers really told her to continue studying... I agree. It's for her own good actually, since not a lot of Miss HK contestants make it big in the entertainment industry. May as well keep studying, go to college, improve her English, and maybe get a good job afterwards.

Good thing she didn't make it, otherwise the show would be hard to watch as well!

I had to read some lines a couple of times to understand what she is trying to say cuz she mixes English with some Chinese. If that's the English she used in the 1st interview, then IMO, it's considered below standard.

what the hell was that.. lol
her english is HORRIBLE i read half and have to guess half..
i think if she wants to prove she is good in ENGLISH she shouldn't put any cantonese slang words
slangs just show she is so uneducated and i dont know disgusting in an sense

Frankly, a lot of people in Hong Kong write like that.

OMG i had the longest time reading her damn message, gosh she should just stick to all chinese, anyways this chick is friggin dumb if she expects to enter show biz in the future by making a move like this against TVB

OMG, it took me a long time to read/understand her email

i think if she wants to be taken seriously..she should've wrote in proper English not Canto in English :s or just write it in Chinese.

This post has been edited by bebemui: 09 June 2009 - 01:47 AM

...and now she's famous! She just has to link her picture to this letter of complaint now.

Her English is bad. I don't see why she's complaining, they were only stating the truth.

I find this girl's letter absolutely hilarious. I've heard about how students in Hong Kong frequently mesh English words with Chinese when speaking and even when writing, but if she wants to make a complaint and prove that she's worthy of the Miss Hong Kong title, she should at least take out the "law" and "wor". They not only point out that she butchered not only the English language, but also the Chinese.

The reason they ask her about why she chose not to continue her education is merely for understanding the contestant as an individual and to decide if this contestant even has a good goal in life. It's absurd that she thinks that they're criticizing her for that. If so, then all the past Miss HK would have been bawling.

The point of Miss Hong Kong is to present, beauty, elegance and intelligence. Just by this very letter alone, she already killed the requirements of elegance and intelligence. I bet the reporters only published this to mock said contestant for her courageous attempt to retaliate for not being selected.

Does anybody has this chick's email? I wanna sent her an email and tell her to get her arse back to school and learn some frigging English! as well as Chinese...Just wanna smack her in the face after reading her stoopid email. HK's pageant are degrading each and every year!

[quote name='x0chanelx0' post='6130411' date='Jun 8 2009 7 31 PM']Does anybody has this chick's email? I wanna sent her an email and tell her to get her arse back to school and learn some frigging English! as well as Chinese...Just wanna smack her in the face after reading her stoopid email. HK's pageant are degrading each and every year![/quote]
smack on the face just cos she can't write proper english wow that's kind of mean.. i would just yell the fcuk outta her! and call her fob

her email tickles me XD

emm....when they enter such contest, they have to be prepared for "unfairness"?

hahaha her chinglish is so funny... laugh die me lor!! xDDD this is so pure hk girl english... 港女英文!!

This post has been edited by Pinkmew: 09 June 2009 - 04:55 AM

they are judges, they are suppose to criticize them, and her english is horrible.

Wow, her chinklish is really horrible, is she for real. I think I got a headache trying to understand her letter. My five year old nephew can write better than that.

is the letter even real!? just looks like someone made it up cuz if she wanted to prove a point..she certainly shoulda wrote that in chinese...well half of it was in chinese anyways

but the "hurt die me" was hiliarious i love it

OMG her English

'Hurt Die Me' reading her letter LoL

Yup it's better for her to go back studying as well as improving her English. People will then take her more seriously instead of treating her like a joke

fobby english. not suprised if she was treated badly.....come on this is tvb man, they are known to be frugal with their artists

her english is funny and horrible at the same time...with her standard,can she even say the judges wrongly judged her?? Oh man,she shud really go back to her studies..

It looked like something my friend would write (since English wasn't her first language) but at least my friend's written English is still understandable.. This one is a killer!

How can she be Miss HK with that standard in English?
Think the judge is doing the right thing to fail her!

But whether the judges can be rude is another question, they should at least speak to the contestants nicely!

This post has been edited by annie083: 09 June 2009 - 11:06 AM

[font="Trebuchet MS"][size=2][color="#9932cc"]Uh... wows. She has nothing to complain about, her English is terrible!
And it isn't exactly smart of her to write a complaint in Chinglish, especially since her English is not understandable! She should have just stuck to Chinese.. but it doesn't really look like a complaint letter, it's so informal it looks more like something she'd blogged.
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dayum this girls English is horrible LOL
i know friends who type sort of like that with each sentence ending in "la" cause they think its cute...LOL

i think she should go back to school instead of taking the easy way out in life, get it out of her head that getting famous = money

lol that was hilarious

no wonder the judges told her to improve on her English.

Hello, don't blame her. Eventhough her English is below par, i don't think it is a requirement to be Miss Hong Kong. Miss Hong Kong needs to be articulate in whatever language she is comfortable with, not necessary English.

OMG... i don't quite understand what she is trying to say.. haha

starters, her english is horrible and having a mix of canto and english.. she should just choose one language.
she should've also written a more formal letter.
but by the looks of it, the judges were right.
she has nothing to actually complain about.

i cant believe the paper categorised that as "english"...pageant is beauty and intelligence...i think the intelligence factor might be a bit beyond her...

Hahahaha hurt me die, I still cant quite read that letter- if you can call it that......barely a sentence there.

Enough said, her letter proved the whole point of the reason why she was kicked out at the first round !!! Not only can she not string a basic english sentence together, but its seems she has a big head too.

My cousin spells like that too......terrible, how the hell is anyone able to read that.

I think a reasonably good command of spoken English is required coz the winner would probably have to represent HongKong in the Miss World Universe I think. Anyway, I guess her email was meant for the media in HongKong - those people probably understand her lingo? .. perhaps that's the way the locals speak? *shrug* poor girl

hahahaha she sounds sooo hillbilly, or should i say fobby. oh god.. "hurt die me" !!! she obviously translated the english from her chinese.. "tong say ngo"

Seriously, I am having trouble understand what she is trying to say on that email.

Wow..she really deserved to be kicked out particularly due to her very pooor standard of English...