The Biggest Loser Asia

... is not me.

Honestly, I wasn't too keen on the title "Biggest Loser". I mean, imagine you won the competition and then everywhere you go people knows you by that and they'll be referring you as, "Hey, that's the biggest loser guy. Remember? What's his name? Alah.. He's the biggest loser in the whole of Asia!" and pointing you to his wife, kids, mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, aunt, uncle and the whole horde. I mean, I know the title is catchy up to a certain point and if you view it in losing the pounds department but other than that, I just didn't like it.

I seriously have not been following this show until the Top 5. When I heard that one of the contestants that made it into the Top 5 is from Malaysia, I browsed the net for a bit to checkout who it was. Let's just say somebody in my troop knew him once. So, I was intrigued to see how this one and only contestant from Malaysia is going to make it. Will he be in the finals? Will he be able to bag the USD100,000 and the Renault? Coz, you know, I think the Renault is sexy. Wish I had one. 

Last night, at exactly 10.15pm, Hallmark Astro aired the Biggest Loser Asia Finale. It was sort of a reunion for all the contestants. But that wasn't what got me laughing out loud. What got me laughing was when the Top 4 contestants was supposed to go through a giant size photo of their "before" look and come out with their new appearance. Aaron was the only one who went through it with enough force and speed for the frame to stay in place. The other three actually got the frame crashing on top of them. Okay, I admit it was bad of me to laugh but don't they have someone in charge to not let the frames fall on the contestants? Who's managing this whole program anyway? 

So, who was the winner?

When Carlo came out third, I thought he was going to win. He was so slim! I thought he really lose a lot of weight but when David came out, I was like, that's it, he'll win hands down. The difference of weight loss from when he left the location at A Famosa Resort, Malacca on week 11 was tremendous. He weighed in at 102kg on week 11 and last night for the finale, he weighed in at 74kg thus making him the winner of the First Season! I couldn't help but notice though that he looked rather frail, but maybe that's not important. The numbers is what's important for this type of competition, I suppose.

Congratulations David Gurnani from Indonesia!

Courtesy of Wikipedia

For more details on the Biggest Loser Asia or anybody interested to be the Biggest Loser Asia Season 2, the auditions are now open and registration can be done at their website. Go visit the Official Biggest Loser Asia website now!

So You Think You Can DO IT?

Dance, I mean. I was watching So You Think You Can Dance in between watching the 82nd Academy Awards  re-run and I saw this amazing dance on the SYTYCD show. I have to admit, I'm not much of a SYTYCD fan. Usually when I skim the channels and I land on the show, I'll watch for a while and then get up and find food in the kitchen or something. But today, I saw this episode and this couple really stood out and got me mesmerized.

None other than Legacy and Kathryn.

When I browsed the web, I found that this episode was on a few weeks ago but I don't care. I still want to show what is it that got me glued to the screen. 

I was so mesmerized at how they brought the music to life and complimented it with every dance step. I loved how it looked like she can never move on because he is always holding her back. How he hang on to her middle and she can't seem to tear him away from her even though she pushed him hard. And the last part, I absolutely loved the last part.

I know a major part of this choreography to work out is thanks to the choreographer but the dancers would have to compliment each other to make the dance work as well. I'm not a dancer but I know a great dance-step when I see one. I love love loved this so much. Wish I had the talent to do something like this. 

By the way, I know the Academy Awards just passed and I'm sure so many people are talking about it in details or watched it themselves so I don't find the need to elaborate much on the entire show. What I did like was the intros before Best Actor and Best Actress nominees was announced. Some of the things they said were funny (like what Tim Robbins said on Morgan Freeman) and some were touching so if you haven't watch it, go watch the re-run or find somewhere in YouTube. Oh, and since we're on the "dancing" track, come watch this performance by Legion of Extraordinary Dancers performing for the best score awards for the 82nd Academy Awards. Enjoy!

P/S : I'm writing this simple and light post because I had been touching on two heavy topics the last two posts and somebody said it made them "angry" when they read it. LOL! 

Is It So Easy To Make Babies?

The answer is, well, yes. The guy jump you once and you get pregnant and you think, "so what?" because for the next 9 months you can have sex without protection as many times as you want and when you boom! (that stands for delivering the baby), you don't find any remorse whatsoever to chuck it in the drain. Maybe you can even watch the baby drift with the current to god-knows-where. Then you go home and let your guy jump you again so you can repeat the process above in another 9 months.

I have no idea why there are so many of these gory stories in the newspaper lately. I still haven't fully recovered from the news on the baby burned in the barrel yet and today I read about another baby found floating in a drain by two boys who was playing nearby. Obviously the baby girl floating in the drain was dead but my oh my, why such cruelty? They chuck the baby in the drain like nothing. Just like that.

Photo courtesy of Berita Harian newspaper Mar 7, 2010.

I'm starting to get queasy just thinking about it. 

Sometimes I wonder, don't they have any guilt to throw the baby or burn the baby or leave it at the side of the road until ants start biting and killing the baby? Why not just go for an abortion in the first place? You see, I do not support or encourage abortion but if they have no fear for God or fear of getting struck by lightning or fear of going to Hell, then why not put an end to the child's misery when it's still just an embryo? Don't wait until the eighth week when it becomes a fetus. Go do it when it's still an embryo - a tiny size of a sesame seed. It is so much better than you go fling it into the drain and let it drown slowly after nine months of hands and feet and eyes and nose and lungs and heart and everything.

Since you can bear to have the baby grow in your belly for nine long months, why not go find suitable parents for the baby? There are many married couples out there who are TRYING to get babies for YEARS but can't and I'm sure they would love to have just one, even if a stork left it at their door. How could you go through nine months of carrying at least 3 kilos of something in your belly and then burn it? 

Or, if you can't imagine yourself doing either one of the above, why not just use a goddamn protection you dimwits! Don't tell me you're big enough to know how to have sex but haven't heard of a condom or the Pill? If you're not ashamed to get down to the steamy nitty-gritty with each other, don't tell me you're embarrassed to go to the pharmacy and ask the pharmacist (whom do not know you and do not care about you either, I bet) to hand over that condom or Pill to you. SERIOUSLY!

However, if you're too cheap that you cannot afford to do any of those, then that means you also cannot afford to have sex. My suggestion - use your hand. Period.