Some tidbits on the 31st May 2010, the climax of the state-level Kaamatan Festival, Sabah’s biggest, most colourful, best known and most important cultural event, attracting thousands of visitors from far and wide.

Pre:
- someone mentioned that with side dishes, one could easily sell 50 crates of beer every single day at KDCA.

11.35am: a little bird mentioned that Miss Tawau, Lahad Datu, Banggi, Beluran & Telupid are probably on their way out at the preliminary stage.

11.42am: a little bird mentioned that when eventual winner Crystel Eve Huminodun Majinbon made her entrance, nobody applauded. He added that Miss Telupid & Tungku probably won’t survive the first round.

2.10pm: YB Lim Kit Siang spotted making the rounds at KDCA.

3.20pm: heavy rain lashes KDCA Hall, and the West Coast of Sabah for about 1.5 hours (?)

5.55pm: got update that the Unduk Ngadau top 7 has been announced.

6.30pm: got update on the Unduk Ngadau results. Well it seems that some are playing swap-chair. Has this ever happened before? As Crystel herself wrote on her Facebook profile on the 2nd of June:

God had a plan & purpose for everything tat happened..mayb it was his will for me to get 2nd in DBKK.. so tat im not too over confident during the state level & i wil do better to win the state level..all i got to do is be gratefull for everything tat happened & thank God.. :) GOD BLESS EVERYONE!!

Unprecedented, the first mother & daughter State Unduk Ngadau. Her mother, Esther/Easter Sikayun had won it in 1984, 26 years earlier. Also, apparently she’s the first girl to have won while wearing a “sinipak Dusun Tindal.” [sinipak = long-sleeved blouse]

She got > RM38,000 worth of prizes, including studies at the ATI – perhaps the time has come for the organisers to add an online degree scholarship to the mix.

For the record, Debra Fiona Alexius who finished 3rd in the DBKK pageant finished 7th in the state level pageant where she represented Likas.

Full results:

Winner: Crystel Eve Huminodun Majinbon (Tanjung Aru)
2nd: Rochelle Fayrenie (Penampang)
3rd: Lydia John Alai (Kota Kinabalu)
4th: Ledesma Steven (Tuaran)
5th: Hannevy Vivie W Harry (Tambunan)
6th: Elforina [Eflorina?] Jolius (Pitas)
7th: Debra Fiona Alexius (Likas)

Subsidiary titles:
Miss DIGI Popular: Einny Emil (Kinabatangan)
Tati Topiodo (Miss Natural Beauty): (Papar)
Tati Tosuau (Miss Friendly): (Sook)

Post:
- many complaints of problematic China-made-phone-lookalikes, with vendors specially flown in from the peninsula by sponsors.

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