explore my optimistic world

This perhaps is the cutest picture I've seen in the internet today. I was searching who the hosts of the Miss Universe 2010 pageant were, and I found that they were Bret Michaels and Natalie Morales. Their names are in blue color which signifies a link of information about them. I clicked it. First was of Natalie Morales’.

Last night, I heard Justine saying that the woman presenter was also the host of the dance competition and reality show, “So you think you can dance.” That gave me the interest to search for it because I was not able to watch the pageant on tv.

But this morning, I found out that she’s not whom he was referring to. She’s not Cat Deeley, the host of the mentioned show. She is Natalie, instead.

I’ve read that Natalie is a news anchor and national correspondent for the National Broadcasting Company. And the fascinating fact is that, Natalie was born in Taiwan to a Brazilian mother and a Puerto Rican father, but now residing with her husband and children in New Jersey. Wow, she’s nomadic.

Her father is a soldier of the U.S. Air Force (preferably a Lieutenant Colonel). This is where I discovered the term “military brat” because that’s how Natalie grew up.

A military brat is a person whose parent or parents have served full-time in the armed forces during the person's childhood. I haven’t heard of such word here in the Philippines, but according to Mr. Wikipedia, it is occasionally used in several English-speaking countries—Australia, Canada, New Zealand and United Kingdom; while in the USA, the term is ascribed to a collectively identifiable demographic. (What does this mean? lol)

Anyways, let’s proceed to another detail. Natalie speaks Spanish and Portuguese, as she spent the first eighteen years of her life living overseas in Panama, Brazil and Spain.

Natalie is an avid runner, having competed in five marathons, including three New York City Marathons, and recently began competing in triathlons. Ohh, she’s equivalent to Dyan Castillejo here. That's all!