I arrived at 1 Utama in time for the finalists’ first appearance, but we were really bored and hungry so RowdyRudy and i fled to Chilli’s to have some grub and tequila shots before heading back down.

Just in time for the winner to be called (thanks to Denise for alerting me )

Adeline, Hanis, Cindy and Elaine

Winner of the first Malaysian Dreamgirl was to walk away with
- a Nissan Latio 1.8Ti (A)
- RM10,000 preloaded AmBank NexG PrePaid MasterCard
- RM3,000 Wella Professionals hamper
- RM1,000 worth of Escada fragrances
- RM1,000 worth of Bebe apparel (damn)
- RM500 worth in Nose footwear
- featured in NewMan cover spread

That’s quite a lot man. Especially the car..!

Everytime Hanis came walking out, the cheers were distinctively louder.
“Wow, they really like her, huh?” said Rudy
“Yeah!”

KennySia, me, RowdyRudy

When Elaine Daly (who emceed) asked who’s supporting Cindy, there weren’t many cheers.
She joked, “Where’s Cindy’s family?”
When she asked who’s supporting Adeline, there weren’t many cheers as well.
When she asked who’s supporting Hanis, you guessed that right, the cheers just went crazy.

The third runner up was to be announced first.

And Hanis’ name got called.

You could feel the shock of the crowd as people went, “Huh? What? Yay! Hanis’ name! Eh, no la, that was third runner up! OMG. HANIS didn’t win!”

“Oh no, look at her… she so thought she’s gonna win…”
“Well, yeah… everyone wanted her to win…”

But i must say, she’s really brave for not crying.
I think if it were me, i’d have bawled like hai on the stage already.

As Hanis got her picture taken for 3rd runner up, the crowd clapped and her supporters still cheered her on, which was really sweet.

Adeline, won 2nd runner up.
And Cindy, won Malaysian Dreamgirl.

You can tell by the way i’m typing i’m so not semangat already right.
-_-

So, behind-the-scenes news (this was told to me by someone involved in the show) was that because this was purely an SMS-voting competition, Cindy’s family threw down 15k worth in votes.

When you think of it, 15k is pretty damn value for a car, RM10k cash back in return, all those other prizes, and buying your daughter’s happiness for her to win the competition.

Another little bird told me that in the week that Ringo was up against Cindy to be voted out, Ringo’s mom and bro SMSed RM4,000 worth… and Ringo STILL lost.

Can you imagine how much money Cindy’s family has been chucking in then?

Man, the Malaysian Dreamgirl show sure made a lot of money from this system.

I feel sorry for Hanis but i thought she’s really brave for putting up a smile (probably till she reached backstage).

After the announcement, i was like, “BAH. Let’s go,” and we went to have some merlot at Cribs.

We were talking about it for a while and i was like, “Eh! We should get her number and send her an sms to make her feel better!”
So i got her number from KennySia and we smsed - “KinkyBlueFairy and Rudy from Hitz.fm would like to say we totally support you and what a travesty the outcome was. Don’t cry k, you’ll go far girl. Kisses.”

What i think is, look at it this way - you’re 17, you got on a national reality TV show, you won some money, managed to garner a huge following, you have so many supporters and hey, so what, you didn’t win.
But this is just the beginning for you.