Reality TV Shows and Malaysian Dreamgirl Auditions

About a week or two ago, Dawn asked me to join a reality TV Show called The Firm.

The Firm is like the Malaysian version of The Apprentice, Joel joined and won Season 1, and now they're looking to recruit a new team of people for Season 2.

Dawn happens to be one of the people working on Season 2.I managed to however convince her that I was too boring to be on reality TV. I mean, for a reality TV show, you need someone who has a hot temper, who has an attitude problem, who lies or cheats... or things like that. That's what we all love to watch right? Drama!

If you put 20 Timothy Tiah's in there, it'll be the most boring show you'll ever see because each one of them will always try to be 'politically correct' and there will be no drama.

So I know then that I'm not meant to be IN reality TV shows, but I love reality TV shows and I guess it wouldn't hurt to be behind the scenes on one of them.

Enter Malaysian Dreamgirl.
Malaysian Dreamgirl approached me some time last year to find out if we can work some sort of collaboration between Nuffnang and them.

Backed by huge sponsors from Nissan to AmBank, Malaysian Dreamgirl was going to be the first web-based reality TV Show in Malaysia , that means instead of watching it off the airwaves, you can watch it online just like how we all watch our videos these days.

A little excited about it and having met the people behind Malaysian Dreamgirl (one of them being the guy in the picture below),I decided that it would be good fun to be a part of, hence Nuffnang signed on as a Media Partner.

Apart on some blog advertising campaigns that they ran on the Nuffnang network, we also hooked them up with a few bloggers:

Pink Pau and Shaolintiger who will be our 'blogger journalists' to cover the event.And Kenny Sia who will actually be one of the judges alongside Elaine Daly and Lim Jimmy.

Anyway, last Saturday I went over the PWTC to check out the auditions they were having and more importantly to support Ringo who was going there to participate!
Upon arrival, I saw A LOT of hot chicks all sitting outside waiting to go in for their auditions.

Seriously, I have never seen so many chicks in one place before... and the girl guy ratio there must've been 10 girls for every 1 guy.

Bloody hell, we should've turned that place into a club. It would've meet a lot more fun than that sausage fest I was in last weekend.

I grabbed myself a VIP Pass and was ushered into a Media Room where we could watch real-time what was happening in the room next door where the auditions were taking place.

I ended up staying there almost the entire afternoon and it was soo much fun.

There we all were betting on which girl was gonna get accepted by the judges and who wasn't.

I took the liberty of taking pictures of some of the girls while they were waiting to go in for their auditions.

Pretty or not?

Pretty or not?!

Hahahaha there were a few that made it.

Like this hot girl in red here.
Or this girl Giselle who apparently is a KINDERGARTEN TEACHER.
I know what you guys are thinking...
"WHAT THE HELL?!?!?! A KINDERGARTEN TEACHER??? FROM WHAT PLANET?!?! THAT DON'T LOOK LIKE NO KINDERGARDEN TEACHER TO ME!!!"

I mean... HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A KINDERGARTEN TEACHER THAT LOOKED LIKE THAT?

How can the kids FOCUS on learning the alphabet or counting apples when you have someone so HOT teaching you. Heck I probably can't even say "Hi" to her without tripping over myself in real life.

Another girl that got shortlisted is this girl that looks so much like Sweat Lee it's almost disturbing.
When she came into the Media Room to be interviewed and talk to us, Pink Pau, Shaolintiger, Samantha and the rest of us in there were all referring to her as Suet Li.

We went
"Suet Li Suet Li... come take picture with me!!!"

And she would just acknowledge it and come take pictures with us.

Until of course towards the end when she decided it was time to say something before she gets labeled Suet Li for the rest of the show...

She was leaving and we said
"BYE SUET LI!!!"

She turned back and said
"My name is Yvonne".

And we all said
"Okay Suet Li! Bye!!!"

Now the next girl I found really interesting at the event was Alison.

*Pic stolen without permission from Pink Pau's blog.. HAHA!!

She was tall, charming, pretty and really really smart.

We got to talking and found out that she's an architect by profession who had just returned to Malaysia after having spent 7 years in the UK.

I was telling her how I spent 3 years in the UK studying for a degree when she asked "Which university?"

When I said
"UCL"

She said
"WOW!!! I WENT TO UCL TOO!!!"

MY UNIVERSITY ALUMNI!!!

See.. UCL people are ALL smart!

Oi...One of the Top 25 Universities in the World you know!

Dun pray pray!!!

Soon enough, the moment we had all been waiting for had come.
It was Ringo's turn to go in for audition, she was sooo nervous but she found the strength in herself to be confident when she walked in.

All of us were gripping our seats in the Media Room hoping that she'll get shortlisted, I mean it would really be nice to have a fellow blogger in the show right?

And guess what.

She did!!!

She was damn glamour by the time she came out.

Everyone rushing to interview her and all.

That day 40-50 girls were shortlisted for another round of auditions this weekend where they will narrow down those 40-50 girls to just 12 that will be in the actual reality TV Show.

The final 12 will be shipped off to some really nice villa somewhere and filmed there... that's when we all get to watch them!

I'm sure there'll be some fun and also some disappointments as some of the girls we met that day get eliminated.

I had my first disappointment with one of candidates.

Her name was Alicia.
I thought she was really nice and I really liked her "Girl Next Door" kind of look, you know the kind of girl you can bring home to your mum.

Seriously... bring home the Kindergarten Teacher and your mum will say
"SON... WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!?!"
Unfortunately the judges didn't feel that Alicia fit the profile of a top model.

Now that doesn't mean to say that the judges didn't think she wasn't pretty or anything... she just wasn't exactly what they were looking for.

I'm really pretty excited about the TV show coming out. Honestly... I never thought that I would be this excited but holy crap... look at what a long post I've written just for this.

And hey... I'm not being paid a cent to write anything about this okay?

Music That PISSES YOU OFF!!!

The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra is something that we've all heard of, but not too many of us has actually gone to witness it.

I've been hearing all about it. Apparently everything about it is world class. From the musicians to even the concert hall they play in.

So today I finally decided to get myself (and a date) a ticket, put on my coat and went to watch it.Yes the place is so world class that you can't get in without wearing either a coat or a batik shirt.

Now to be very honest, I'm not too much a classical music kind of person. I like classical music, but just some of the songs. Hence I never like going to an orchestra concert because you'll never really know what you're actually gonna get to hear.

It's like going to a concert and you have no idea who's going to perform. I mean it turn out to be something good like Kanye West, Black Eyed Peas or something... OR it could turn out to be something really shit like.... well... Jessica Simpson and you'll be kicking yourself through the night.

Anyyyyywaaayyy... so happens that on the night of the concert I was going, they were having this pianist coming to perform.

So fine... I like the sound of the piano.

We all sat down in the world class concert hall and the music started playing.
Then something really weird struck me, the piano he was playing didn't sound at all like a piano.

I turned to my date and asked her
"Wtf is wrong with that piano? Don't they realize it's broken?"

She told me
"It's not a piano, it's called a Harpsichord".

Most of us would have never really heard of a harpsichord before but it basically looks like a piano but sounds NOTHING like a piano. In fact, it sounds LIKE SHIT.

I couldn't stand the music that came out of that hideous piece of crap. It somehow just struck a nerve in me that made me really very annoyed.
Worst part was I was forced to listen to the whole thing since they shut all the doors once the concert started.

When I first started listening to it, I just got a little uncomfortable (though I was the outcast since everyone around me seemed to enjoy it).

Then it got a little annoying.. then very annoying... then I started to get angry.... towards the end I got so angry I almost stood up in the middle of the concert and PUNCHED the guy sitting next to me for no reason.Seriously... I was feeling that pissed off.

The damn musical noise instrument sounds like a bloody little mosquito stuck in your ear and flying around inside (at least to me it sounds like that).

There you have it... I can't believe it but there is actually an instrument on this Earth that has the power to make ME and possibly some other people REALLY REALLY ANGRY.

I wonder why they never used that damn instrument in war.

I mean think of how powerful that will be.

The invading army will come to our borders with their tanks, planes and soldiers and all we have to do is get someone to play that damn instrument.

Before long all those tanks, planes and soldiers will get so pissed off with one another they'll end up blowing each other up.And the best part is... when the United Nations comes up to you and say
"WHY DID YOU BLOW UP THEIR GREAT ARMY!??!"

You can just tell the truth and say
"I didn't! I just played them music welcoming them to my country and they kicked their own asses".

It's official... there is actually a musical instrument on this planet that I really hate!

What are they going to make next? Ice-cream that makes you angry when you eat it?

That can't be hard to do for me.

Just put tau geh in the ice-cream and that'll be enough to piss me the hell off!

Update: I'm sorry if anyone takes this the wrong way but I really don't mean this entry to be any disrespect to anyone who loves classical music. It's just a matter of my personal preference. Some people can't stand heavy metal or rap music, I can't stand classical music with a harpsichord in it. I do however like some other classical pieces.

SPOILING THE MARKET!!!

It's all over the news now.

Really.. it's REALLY all over the news.

Every year, the day after Valentine's Day, the newspapers everywhere will pick a couple that has proposed in a romantic way and hightlight it nationwide.

This year, it's the story of this guy who spent RM40,000 on a billboard ad asking his girlfriend to Marry Him.Now that's all nice and romantic for you Romeo but you're SPOILING THE MARKET FOR THE REST OF US GUYS!!!

Okay lets do a little bit of imaginary history on how proposals were carried out in the past.

During the caveman days it probably went like this

You me get married! Here's your ring made of stone!

Then nearer to the medieval ages.

"Darling lets get married and fornicate so we can have children to lead the generation after us!"

Well okay, those were really pretty unromantic times.

Then it got more romantic where the guy actually has to not yet kneel but, put his hands together to ask for marriage.

Then fast-forward to more modern times and the guy is expected to kneel with a ring to propose.

That's a lovely tradition.

Then it became a trend for guys to kneel in public and propose to their girlfriends, another fine tradition.
So much that now not only is almost every guy supposed to kneel down and propose (which is perfectly fine), but a really 'romantic' way of doing this would be... to do it in public when there are a lot of people around. The more the better.

If you kneel down in private and just the normal traditional way that it would get done, you run the risk of your bride saying
"Hey... wtf is this?? You're proposing to me here? In my house? When nobody is looking?"

Now this is when it begins to cross the line...

Some people seem to like it when the guys make a fool of themselves in public at the expense of making it more romantic for the girl.
You know sort of... if you're willing to make a fool of yourself for me then you must really love me kind of thinking.

So if you don't make a fool of yourself then you run the risk of your future bride-to-be saying
"Hey! Why can't you be more romantic and do something more?"

And now we have the new winner here in Malaysia.
Who spends RM40,000 on a billboard ad to propose.

So now by the time it's my turn to propose and I do it the normal traditional way.. you know in front of a moonlight scenery or something, my love of my life might turn and say
"WTF IS THIS?!?!?

YOU ARE PROPOSING TO ME HERE???

IN FRONT OF A ROMANTIC SCENERY OF KL CITY ON A PRIVATE HOT AIR BALLOON?!?!? ARE YOU MAD?!?!

TAKE THE DAMN RING BACK AND COME UP WITH SOMETHING BETTER.... LIKE GET BEES TO SPELL THE WORDS "WILL YOU MARRY ME" IN THE AIR OR SOMETHING!

DO YOU EVEN LOVE ME AT ALL?!?!?" I KNEW I SHOULD'VE MARRIED JASON!!!

PS Romeo: You know I'm just kidding right... congratulations on your marriage! Your proposal was really cool.

HAPPY SINGLE AWARENESS DAY!!!

Don't you just bloody damn hate today!

If you're going to college, you'll see many girls here and there walking around with a bouquet of flowers, pretending to be shy but loving every bit of the attention.If you go to work... you'll see flowers delivered to the work place to some of your female colleagues by their boyfriends.If you go to lunch, you'll be hearing all the attached people talk about what they bought their other half for Valentine's Day!

If you go to dinner at a restaurant they'll tell you
"Sorry Sir, I can't serve you your usual duck noodles tonight. Tonight we have Valentine's Day Set Menu, only RM80++ per head with STEAK"And when you go
"I don't wanna eat steak.. I wanna eat DUCK NOODLES!!!"

They'll say
"Sorry Sir... Why don't you come back tomorrow when we bother to serve single people?"
BLOODY HELL!!!

Even trying to READ BLOGS and get away from it all doesn't work.

Today blogs are all flooded with "Oooh what I bought my dahling..." "Oooh where I'm taking my dahling"... "Oooh.. how I know my dahling and how I lup lup my dahling!"

ALL BLOGS.. LIKE THIS FELLA HERE!!!

WELL TO ALL YOU COUPLES............... *&#($*(&#&*($#*&($

ARRGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

I can't wait for today to be over!

HAPPY SINGLE AWARENESS DAY EVERYONE!!!

Be A Hot Chick For Only RM19.99

It's great to a guy!

Why shouldn't it be?

I mean guys can stand up and pee... girl's can't.

Girls have to go through the pain of child bearing, and all the guy has to do is play with the cute baby when it comes out!
If a girl were to sleep around, she's a slut. If a guy were to sleep around, he's a stud.

I mean how unfair is life for girls?

Well there are some plus points to being a girl, one of which I'm going to talk about now.

See... If you're a guy... and you're ugly... chances are there isn't much you can do about it.

I mean we could try to dress well, we could go buy an Armani suit with Bally shoes but we're still going to look ugly (in fact we're probably going to make that beautiful suit look ugly) simply because... some of us just ain't good looking.Now if you're a normal-looking girl and you wanna look hot... you can always dress well and put on make-up.

But the one thing that you can put on that will make a HUGE change to your look are a pair of glasses.

Now I don't mean a pair of black sunglasses like this because that's just so yester-year and if you wear that indoors, you'll end up looking silly.
I mean one of THESE big big glasses where it's almost okay to wear indoors.So I decided to do a little bit of a test.

Last Sunday I dragged Samantha to Vincci in Gurney Plaza to buy one of those glasses.
She tried on a few glasses till I found a WINNER.

Then it was time to test my theory...

We went down to Gurney Place!

Now for those of you who don't know what Gurney Place is.
Gurney Place is a small street full of coffee shops, cafes, and restaurants on both sides. I mean there is the Coffee Bean, Starbucks, Segafredos, Chillies... heck all the places where hip people like to go and pose.
Everyone there buys a drink and sits on the outside and watches as everyone else walks by. Guys watch chicks... and chicks watch guys.
So here's the idea of the test.

Test 1: I was going to walk beside Samantha down that street without her glasses on and count the number of guys who check her out.

Without her glasses Sam looks like this.Test 2: I was going to walk besides Samantha down that same street but this time WITH her glases and count the number of guys who check her out.

WITH her glasses, Sam looks like this.Guess what.

In Test 1, I counted 4 guys who checked her out.

In Test 2.... 12 guys.
TWELVE FLIPPING GUYS!!!

THAT'S A 300% INCREASE IN GUYS THAT CHECK YOU OUT... ALL FOR RM19.99.

I can't think of money better well spent!

It's just... not possible! As unfortunate it is for us guys, this thing only works for girls.

Simply because only girls look good in big fat glasses like this that cover half your face. We guys look like idiots in them.

And if you were to wear any pair of sunglass and walk down that street. Hell you'll either be called "A Poser" or "Trying to be cool".

But if a girl wears those big big glasses and walks down that street.

Everyone is going to be
"Wahh!!! Hot hot hot!!! Sophisticated!"

So ladies... go and buy yourself a pair of those big big glasses and enjoy the attention!