Monday, October 09, 2006

Miss Vasantham - Road to Finals


It seems that as the series progresses on, viewers solve a different conundrum each week. There are so many new "injects', so many personality changes and of course the jabs at the online community week after week by the emcee.

This episode however was different, I feel. The show has indeed matured. It is more structured. There is more understanding on the part of the producers that at the end of the day, the idea is to keep the general public entertained. Rather than to sit on some high umpire chair looking condescendingly at us going "It's free-to-air television, take it or leave it".

It was mentioned briefly before proceedings commenced that the show had tons of support across the Causeway. Of course, I can imagine this being a hit in the southern Malaysian state of Johor. They after all are long time supporters of our Tamil scene, just as we tune in to Raaga FM religiously preferring to leave the mundane tinkerings of 96.8 FM to its own devices. And to the Malaysian blokes who read us, "Hello! Thanks for the support".

Systematically now, let's round up Sunday's happenings. It started with the usual choreographed, prance about missy routines. The dresses were well crafted too. [Now, was this something planned for or did the sponsor themselves send in these SMSes. "The dresses were sponsored by Creative Studio" "Creative is located at **, Kerbau Road"]

How much can we say really about 6 grown women walking about and posing at regular intervals. So, fast forward to the main bane of all these contestants, the Q n A shiet.

Apparently, they planned some twist. Everytime, the emcee says the word "twist" coupled with his hand sign of said word, 3 weeks straight already, only the image of a mad scientist dreaming up the next Frankenstein comes to mind. So, the twist apparently was to ask one chick to bitch about another chick. In simple Singlish. In their long-drawn words of course, half the people didn't understand what the fuck was just said.

Q n A

Bharathi - Asked what were the strengths/weaknesses of Jamuna

She replied that Jamuna had confidence and had no weaknesses. I don't know much about human psychology but what I do know after years of listening to two-faced answers is that when the time comes to really bitch, the true stabbers can't pull it off on the big stage. Whereas the sincere ones usually just speaketh the truth and look good doing it.

If you remembered, like Maran did, last week's teaser included a short clip of Bharathi saying she felt Jamuna should have been out way before and had no right to be in the tourney. After kena "bang balls" as we so like to use the term, she proceeded to backtrack with the whole, "Oh, my thoughts last week are different from this week. Me and her have no personal animosity. We in fact have a good relationship". Yeah right. I will elaborate on this further down.

Trivia: One of two girls who received a "poison letter" alleging nasty stuff, done up and slipped under her house door. The other is in Group 2.

Jamuna - Asked what was Bharathi's strengths / weakenesses

As we've expected out of this "blur" Miss Tampines 2006. She has a thought but she just doesn't know how to mould it into a proper intelligent sentence. She replied that Bharathi is "confident" [as with what Maran went, ban this motherfuckin word!] and then she attempted to switch the entire answer to make it like she was answering "Now... what are YOUR strengths". I get the idea. But the presentation, oh so wrong.

Maran has since shedded his "I just wanna clown around" demeanour and went on a "Look at my NUS intellect" salvo. Very rightly so too. And this reply from Jamuna was priceless. Paraphrasing a bit, "I came into this competition, as the only one holding a title. I am Miss Tampines 2006, I won that pageant. What I learnt at my time there was that even though it's a competition, all the girls kinda worked together and cooperated in many things. I thought that would be the case here but then again you can't expect everyone to be the same".

Trivia:

a. Jamuna is the ultimate underdog because apart from the nation thinking she is the epitome of a dumb blonde albeit in Indian guise, she is also hounded by her own contestants, with frequent verbal abuse.

b. Also the victim of sabotage when her accessories were found to be trashed after one particular show, in a dressing room which could only be accessed by Medicacorp cast and crew.

alternative b. Managed to sabotage her own stuff to make it seem like there was a personal vendetta against her to garner sympathy and support. Unconfirmed sources have declared she was caught red-handed doing so.

Editor: For just these three bits of trivia. I want to ensure KLKillahs support for Jamuna aka The Underdog. No one deserves sabotage and self sabotage is a real talent. She has our SMS. When we do decide to pay our bill and get "outgoing" restored. *Grin* Wouldn't YOU like the closest thing out there to a Mangamma to win the whole thing? We would.

Indra - Asked about Kasthuri

Indra is the frontrunner in the race according to a lot of public sentiment. This is of course when you ask intellectual people who share the judges' thoughts on selecting someone who can pull of intellect.

Indra interestingly though said that Kasthuri's confidence was her strength and her weakness. Citing that her overconfidence makes her underperform at times. Quite true though, Kasthuri being one who projects confidence to the point of arrogance sometimes on stage. The whole "plastic smile" thing though can't be helped can it. How do you smile naturally when that IS the way you smile?

Ah, we caught like a nanosecond or two of Indra's tat on her shoulder blade. I think we need to get this woman in a male magazine shoot to actually view the Real McCoy.

Kasthuri - Asked about Indra

Kasthuri with same old banter. "She is confident. She has no weakness". In a way, when wanting to inject some bitching and post-show cat fighting, you ought to make sure everyone is in the loop eh? Nothing over the top with her answers and nothing much to condemn either. Same stuff different girl.

Point to note would be that, it's nice finally seeing Maran go all out to rile up the contestants. Yes, get them flustered. And then we'll see, what they're capable of. If they truly are sharp, or did they just rehearse their well KLKrafted answers 50,000 times the night before.

R.Anita - Asked about Fazila

Same confidence shiet. Aaargh. But she said Faz was too helpful at times. Obviously, this is not a "let me help you identify your weakness dear friend" moment but was a direct jab at a fellow contestant, still unknown but we made pretty good guesses who it could be. Otherwise, monotoneity was beginning to creep in.

Fazila - Asked about R.Anita

You know the show cannot end if Rafi doesn't do something to ruin it. After attempting to simply show off his command of the Tamil language in previous comments, he outdid himself by reminding Fazila of some age old promise she made to speak in Tamil. And yes, what else does Dear Mr. Romeo ask for but a Tamil song to serenade him with. You'd think with the departure of some of his favourites, his fetish over "You woman. Can you dance, can you cook, can you sing, can you be loyal to your husband?" would have dissapeared already. Get a life, plus lose the shades. Unless you have cataracts or permanent sore eyes, then keep them on.

Vasantham VJ

So, in order to spice up the show even more. The girls now had to take their turns hosting. An MTV like VJ gig to plug some Deepa-Raya special edition show. I think most of the girls did pretty ok when faced with pretty mischevious and out-of-point callers.

Who was that guy with the voiceover though? This bloke was fuckin fantastic! The whole segment would have been a total failure if not for this man. He the man! Give it up! Who is this man! [Anyone who knows please inform us and pass our compliments]

Still, did this round even matter in the final decisions? Because God help MTV if there was a VJ like Fazila. She got totally hijacked by a lovelorn caller on Live TV! Dude, you gotta play VJ. Fit the role. That voiceover bloke worked his best lines with her and we love him for it.

Swimsuit Time

When, it was announced last week that there would be a swimsuit section this time round, it caused quite a furore. Sunita said a swimsuit round is like 50% of the raw score in any other major pageant, just like she says of any other round she's asked about. Anyhow, what swimsuits?!?!? I didn't see shit. Come on man. You claim swimsuits, you get them in their 2 pieces. If not, then their 1 piece. What was with that whole, wear some Siloso Beach lounging thingie coupled with teeny weeny sarongy bit? Swimsuit what? Utter dissapointment. It's not like we are all skin addicts and sex maniacs, but you get the drift. Dissapointing!

Results

Kasthuri and R. Anita got knocked out. The rest of youse must be bawling and pounding the floor asking why Jamuna didnt get the boot. Well, there you have it. In an SMS contest, go get your people to SMS geddammit. Play to the competition. Well, imagine if you came out tops in terms of SMS numbers but you ought to have got knocked out based on the judges' standards, do the math, you'd still be in. I'm loving it that Jamuna is still in. As per the reasons explained above, KLKillahs has a penchant for adopting the underdog.

To the Producer, Asst Producers, Host:

Since it was the first time this SMS thingie was brought up, PLEASE state clearly next time that you'd like the people to actually start voting when the show starts and that the results will be collated by the end of the show. If you're dense like me, then you're still waiting for the whole Idol-like, show "show" and results "show".

And give a realistic indication of when voting actually stops. If it's 7:30 pm then flash it on the screen dammit. And what the fuck is with this 2 dollars? 2 GODDAMN DOLLARS AN SMS! What are you? Miss Universe? Even the recent Miss World SMS vote-offs went at only 50 cents an SMS. What are you? Bigger than Singapore Idol already? Stop this exploitation. We pay our TV license, we have to put up with crap programming sometimes. Now, you want us to pay 2 dollars to indicate our preference and STILL offer support for crap programming. Have a think about it. Come to your senses.

And oh, maybe you should be transparent about releasing exactly how many votes each girl did get. They do it in Singapore Idol no? We wanna see the margins too. Margins are everything.

Watch out for our KLKillahs 100th post special giveaway in a few days time.


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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

i heard from sources that Jamuna's accessories were not sabotaged by the other contestants. she being a blur blob broke them herself and blamed it on the other contestants so that the production team will sympathise with her and absorb the cost of the damage.

ah_neh said...

well. every tale has 2 sides. but who is your source? another contestant?

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