When Chinta Woo-Allcock was a little girl, she had ambitions to become the most-famous-make-up-artist-in-the-whole-wide-world. So after high school, she went to beauty school. However, she was a beauty school drop-out at 17. She recalled, “it was tough.”
With no idea what to do next, like any filial Asian daughter, she heeded her parents’ advice to go to university. At the end of the 3-year degree course, she felt that she wanted to see the world so she became a trolly-dolly with the glamorous Singapore Airlines. “I still have my kebaya but it has shrunk 2 sizes. It must have been the washing machine”, she lamented.
Chinta was also a former Miss Singapore/Universe contestant and was placed 3rd (but she reckoned that should have won if not for that little fall from grace on national television). After the pageant, she met her dashing Australian husband, the late Harold Allcock. It was love at first sight. “It was oh-so-romantic”, she blushed.
Sadly, Harry died 5 years after their matrimony from a sheep-shearing incident. So did her favourite sheep, Anna Belle. Chinta now lives at a station with three dashing and delicious European backpacker-helpers, tends to her husband’s cattle and occasionally performs at the clubs and pubs around Brisbane. She has also performed in Sydney and Melbourne. She can also be called upon for to provide a ‘little entertainment’ for charitable and non-profit organisations. Chinta has given time to Healthy Communities (QAHC), Citizens Welfare Cabaret (CWC), Open Doors Youth Service and the Asian Marching Boys and Friends (AMBF). “If it’s within my means, I will try to help”, she said.
The almost-feline Asian persuasian has been performing for close to 4 years and debuted at the Miss Sportsman Hotel Pageant in 2009. Miss Sportsman Hotel Pageant is the inaugural and prestigious pageant for amateur showgirls in Brisbane, Queensland (Australia). Chinta was a stage-virgin/victim then. And, naturally, was not placed. In the contest, she met her long-lost-sister-in-law, Barbra Windsor-Woo. Barbra, a minor celebrity herself in the Brisbane scene, married Chinta’s long-lost brother, Win-Chung Woo, whom she had not met (and will never meet). They share the same wardrobe sometimes.
Always having the thirst for conquests Chinta participated in the Miss Sportsman Hotel again in 2010 and emerged victorious. In February 2011, she was crowned Miss Gay Australia 2011 in Melbourne, “I wanted a bigger tiara than the one she had”, she confessed. 2012 was another victorious year as she won the Miss Lotus pageant in Melbourne – a talent competition for drag queens of Asian descent. Chinta is in a happy place right now, but would be happier if she gets to perform and host events more often – for pocket money (she is saving for a red high-end Kitchenaid mixer), and also to contribute to the LGBTI community (“and for the straights’ causes too”, she whispers).
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