Cheryl Marie Cordeiro
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Cheryl Marie Cordeiro (born 14 February 1975) was Singapore's delegate to the international Miss Universe pageant in 1999. In 1999 she held the title of Miss Singapore Universe[1] and also won the subsidiary title of "Body Beautiful" in the local contest. She played the role of "Stephanie" in the Singapore English sit-com, "Brand New Towkay" which ran on Channel 5 in 2002.
Cheryl Marie was widely known as "The Beauty with Brains" since, in addition to pursuing two separate Masters Degrees in 1999, she was also studying French as a language. In 2000/2001, she graduated with a double Masters Degree. The first degree was a Master of Art in the English Language from the National University of Singapore and the second was a Master of Science in Information Studies[2] from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore[3].
Cheryl Marie is a Eurasian Singaporean. Her mother, Rita Yong Cordeiro is Chinese (Hakka) and her father, Adrian Cordeiro, is of Portuguese descent. As a little girl, Cheryl Marie was already modelling for Singapore Metro, McDonald's and Nintendo. She studied for her GCE 'O' Levels at CHIJ Katong Convent, an all girls missionary school, which she attended from age 7 to when she became 16 years old. She then went to Victoria Junior College in Singapore for her GCE 'A' Levels before starting her tertiary education in Singapore.
While in Singapore she participated in the Eurasian Association Mentorship Programme. Since 2002 she has resided in Sweden where she has researched both critical linguistics and visual semiotics[4] and is currently pursuing a PhD in the field of linguistics after receiving a Research Funding Scholarship from the Anna Ahrenbergs Fond of the Department of Humanities, Göteborg University.
She married a Swede on 9 June 2006 in Sweden and writes on a mixture of both cerebral[5] and more light hearted topics[6] in her blog.
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- ^ Seah Chiang Nee. "A revealing beauty quest", The Sunday Star, Singapore, 2007-04-16. Retrieved on 2007-11-08. "The 1999 winner, Cheryl Marie Cordeiro, held two degrees and was pursuing postgraduate studies. A reporter covering the event wrote, "We don't want bimbos. And it looks like bookworms need not apply either. "In a bid to distance itself from the perception that beauty pageants are only for the brainless, this year's Miss Singapore Universe loudly trumpeted its historical haul of three post-graduates. "They weren't the prettiest girls, but everyone expected them to be the smartest." In the past, contestants had looks and little else. They could hardly answer a simple question like "What do you want to do with your life?" It could draw out a "to help the people" answer."
- ^ Cheryl Marie Cordeiro (January 2001). "National Information Infrastructure and the Realization of Singapore IT2000 Initiative (Master of Science thesis)". Information Research Journal Vol. 6. No. 2. School of Communication and Information, Division of Information Studies, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (NTU).
- ^ CV. Jan-Erik Nilsson, Gothenburg, Sweden (2006). Retrieved on 2007-11-03.
- ^ Cheryl Marie Cordeiro & Suliman Al-Hawamdeh (October 2005). "Social cognition theory and discourse analysis as frameworks in accessing implicit knowledge: the case of Swedish organizations in Singapore.". Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM2005). Westin Charlotte, North Carolina. ASIST: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.. doi:.
- ^ Cordeiro, Cheryl Marie (October 2007). Google Singapore's cache of Cheryl's Blog Page 810. Retrieved on 2007-10-28. “Watson is also correct to say that all “testing” shows that Blacks or Africans indicate that they are less intelligent since I assume that their intelligence was measured against some form of standard IQ test. IQ tests, though widely accepted as an indicator of how intelligent an individual is, is nonetheless White Western male biased because they originated from the White male scientists of the West, whose socio-cultural, historical and political background are most certainly different from those of the Africans or Black Americans. These IQ tests can hardly be said to be “standard” or “universal” yet they are often taken for granted as if they were. And the intelligence of the Africans or Blacks are measured with such “standardized” and “universal” tests?”
- ^ Cordeiro, Cheryl Marie (October 2007). Cinnamon Roll Day (Kanelbullens Dag) in Sweden. Retrieved on 2007-11-01. “For those in Singapore (and around the world) who would like to celebrate with us in Sweden, you could use our Cinnamon Roll recipe. Preparation time is about 20 minutes plus raising and baking time. We’ve included our pictures of today’s project.”
