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MDG: The Final 3

Finally, our Malaysian Dreamgirl journey is coming to an end.

Adeline, Cindy, Hanis - The MDG Top 3

When we first started filming this show, these three ordinary Malaysian girls have nothing more than basic knowledge in modelling and fashion. After ten weeks of intensive modelling bootcamp, workshops, marathon photoshoot sessions, look at where they are now.

Cindy

Adeline, Cindy and Hanis have all blossomed into professional models in different ways and in the process, defeated nine other hopefuls to become the first Top 3 of Malaysia's online reality model search.

Adeline

Damn. I'm gonna miss the drama so much when the show is over.

At the same time, I am very pleased with how much they have all improved. Their photos speak for themselves.

Hanis

In the end, it is up to the public.

Judging from the comments online, Hanis seems to be the favourite at the moment, although Cindy's vicious family support seems to put her in a lead ahead of the rest.

Regardless, it is important to SMS your votes on who YOU would like to win Malaysian Dreamgirl.

To vote for CINDY, SMS DREAM 03 to 33001.

To vote for ADELINE, SMS DREAM 01 to 33001.

To vote for HANIS, SMS DREAM 06 to 33001.

SMS costs RM1 each and voting closes 11:59pm this Monday, so THERE IS STILL AMPLE TIME TO VOTE! Each vote you send also automatically enters you into a draw to win a RM10,000 preloaded AmBank NexG Prepaid Mastercard.

Who shall win the title of the first ever Malaysian Dreamgirl?

Will it be CINDY?

Will it be ADELINE?

Or will it be HANIS?

All will be revealed 6:30pm this Tuesday night at the Malaysian Dreamgirl Grand Finale at 1Utama.

I don't know who will win, but one thing for sure - I wanna get an autograph from Cindy's Dad at the Grand Finale.

CLEO Beh-Chai-Lor

So, the CLEO 50 Most Eligible Bachelor Bash is happening this Friday night at Zouk KL.

My mother is confused. She has been asking me what's this whole "CLEO 50 Most Eligible Bachelors" thing-a-ma-gettin-jiggy-wit-it is all about.

Well mom, the easiest way for me to explain is that it is exactly like a Miss Malaysia beauty pageant.

But for men.

Yes mom, your youngest son is joining a beauty contest. He will be one of the 50 finalists fighting for the title of Malaysia's Most Beautiful Man. Not exactly what you picture your fattest son might be doing 10 years ago, but sometimes in life, we need to face some difficult questions.

Questions such as, "WHY IS MY SON JOINING A BEAUTY CONTEST?"

It's not like I expect to win anything, of course. I know what I look like. I look in the mirror every morning and I know I ain't pretty.

But in a way it's good, because the only chance I have taking part in a CLEO 50 Most Eligible Bachelors is in Malaysia. That's because our Malaysian CLEO is much tamer and toned-down compared to the other CLEO magazines around the world.

If I were to compete in CLEO Singapore, I know I could never get in anywhere near the Top 50.

That's because I'm gonna have to pose like this.

If his name is Daren Tan (with one 'r'), my name is Keny Sia (with one 'n').

Or worse, in CLEO Australia, like this.

Holy cow.

Luckily this is CLEO Malaysia, and luckily I can still keep my clothes on. All of it.

Luckily.

Anyway, like I said, I have no chance in hell of winning the title of Malaysia's Most Beautiful Man this Friday.

This year's list is full of ACTORS and SINGERS and NEWSCASTERS and MALE MODELS.

#16 Adrian Loh

How is a BLOGGER gonna compete with all these people?

#41 Owen Yap

Those profession by default are already pretty high up on every girl's sexy list. Compare that with me who lists his profession as an "IT Director/Blogger".

Go ask any girl if she'd like to date a blogger, and I gerengtee you she'd laugh until her teeth fall off.

#3 Ebi Kornelis

Fine, with competition like that, I'm not gonna win the CLEO Most Eligible Bachelor of the Year title. I had high hopes becoming Malaysia's first fat bachelor, but I know that's not gonna happen.

The only way I could win is if I talk shit about the other Bachelors, but the thought of 49 Bachelors going after me with their stick... a stick this Friday night is pretty scary.

So I tried winning people's votes over with witty answers during my Q&A, but I don't think that worked out either.

Since I can't win the big Miss Malaysia prize, the least I could aim for is some subsidiary title, correct?

There are five categories up for grabs: Bachelor You'd Have Coffee With, Best Groomed Bachelor, Most Adventerous Bachelor, Bachelor You'd Get Hot & Sweaty With and Bachelor With Sexiest Eyes.

#11 Prem. This is what Bruce Willis would look like if he's an Indian

Out of those five, the only two subsidiary titles that don't require any physical beauty is "Most Adventurous Bachelor" and "Bachelor You'd Have Coffee With".

Obviously, knowing my uhhhh... physical shortfall, I thought those are the titles I'd at least have some chance of winning.

Besides, I reckon I'm pretty adventurous with coffee - I once drank hot coffee on the plane that was shaking like crazy. It was very adventerous.

Anyway, online voting is now closed and the results are out.

For the five subsidiary titles of CLEO Bachelor, the winners are:

Bachelor You'd Have Coffee With: Ebi Kornelis.

Best Groomed Bachelor: Ebi Kornelis.

Most Adventurous Bachelor: Ebi Kornelis.

(The most daredevil thing he's done is parasailing in Sabah because "the wind is very strong")

Bachelor You'd Get Hot & Sweaty With: Ebi Kornelis.

And Bachelor With Sexiest Eyes: Ebi Kornelis.

Look, I am not bitter about losing, but this is ridiculous.

Not only did Ebi Kornelis win all five subsidiary titles, he won with an amazing high margin of at least 40%. I won't be surprised if he takes out the CLEO Bachelor of the Year title this Friday.

But seriously, who the heck is this EBI KORNELIS guy?!

His talent is singing, playing guitar and MAKING IKAN BAKAR.

For someone like than to be able to win all these subsidiary titles, his ikan bakar must have tasted really really really good.

I don't wanna say it, but could there be some *cough*vote-rigging*cough* going on?

I dunno. All I know is that BERSIH should stop campaigning for "clean and fair elections", and concentrate on more important things like campaigning for "clean and fair CLEO Bachelors".

If not, then I think this year's competition is gonna require a new name.

Ikan bakar, anyone?

Ah Gua

I had an interesting past couple of days.

Over the weekend, I was invited by IDC to speak at their Directions 08 Conference in Singapore.

IDC is a huge international marketing research group much like AC Nielsen, and their Directions 08 conference was one of their bigger events where delegates from Dell, HP, Microsoft, etc reportedly paid some SGD$680 each just to attend this one-day conference!

Goodness! The only time I would pay THAT much money to attend a conference is if Mariah Carey is the speaker and I get to Touch Her Body afterwards... I mean, LISTEN to her sing 'Touch My Body' afterwards.

Anyway, my purpose on the the conference was as part of a 4-person panel, talking about what us Generation-Y bloggers think about the Internet trends. Joining me on the panel were social media blogger Daryl from Singapore, tech blogger Victor from Hong Kong and sex blogger Meenakshi from India.

Our panel session lasted for 35 minutes, and I think I spoke for a grand total of only like just 10 minutes.

The coolest thing about speaking at a large-scale conference like this is that these people fly you in and let you stay at some super expensive swanky 5-star hotel that I would never be able afford on my own.

The even cooler thing is that sometimes these hotel rooms are all booked out. When that happens they automatically upgrade you to a suite.

Yes, a friggin' SUITE!

Complete with separate living room and bedroom!

Damn nice marbled bathroom with a jacuzzi!

What more?

They even gave us not one, but TWO RUBBER DUCKIES in the bathtub!

OMG.

Of course I was excited! Not everyday I get to play with rubber duckies.

Oh, and also get to stay at a suite in the Grand Copthrone Hotel in Singapore, just for talking 10 minutes about blogging. :P

I know, I hate myself sometimes.

On Saturday night, I met up with Stickgal at CHIJMES.

As you can see, Stickgal looks nothing like the stick figures that she draws, but she is definitely just as animated.

The funniest thing happened before my return trip at the Changi airport.

The flight to Kuching was delayed and we were given meal vouchers to redeem at the airport food court.

So I while was there at the food counter, waiting for the uncle to prepare my bowl of noodles, this middle-aged Indonesian lady who obviously speaks very limited English came up to him and asked.

Lady: "Ah Gua?"

Uncle: "Har? What Ah Gua?"

Lady: *pointing towards the uncle* "You! You! Ah Gua?"

Uncle: "Har? No! No! I not Ah Gua leh!"

Lady: "No! No! Ah Gua! Ah Gua!"

Kenny: "Eh Uncle, I think she's asking if you sell water or not. Water is called Aqua."

Uncle: "HAR? How come water call Ah Gua?"

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