Fear Factor Malaysia season 2 winners!

I know this post is a bit late but as I always say, it's better late than never. Congratulations to Redha and Erin Malik for winning the second season of Fear Factor Malaysia. After weeks of hard (and sometimes disgusting) challenges, elimination after elimination, they emerged as winners at the final episode of this season after beating out the other 3 teams; Kairul/Nas-T, Shuib/Zakaria and Rechel/Azura. Congratulations to them!

Although for this season they are not calling it Fear Factor Celebrity Malaysia anymore (notice the removal of the word Celebrity), it's still a continuation of the previous season since we still have celebrities in this season too. This time though, the regular non-celebrity contestants were paired up with celebrities to form a team of two; there are all 16 teams separated into Group A and Group B with 8 teams in each group. Which means each team comprised of one regular contestant and one celebrity contestant. Some teams work great together while some teams...well...not so much.

Overall this season is quite good and entertaining; we have great personalities not just among the celebrities but also among the non-celebrity contestants, we have some great challenges, and we also have quite a drama with some of the contestants. I don't mind when contestants cry when they got emotional or scared but I don't really like to see contestants fight with each other. Personally, I down-right hate it, it's like the show ask me to pick sides on who I want to side with, which is not fair to be honest since this is an edited reality show which shows parts of what's really happening during the shooting and might not 100% reflect the contestants real-life behavior. So although I like this season of Fear Factor, the fighting was the one thing that I didn't quite like about the show, and fortunately it were just a few of them.

There are quite a few good teams this time around but my favourite team this season is Zain Saidin and Akmal. They were competitive, they work great together and they support each other very well. I really admire their attitude in which they didn't offend or being rude to the other teams despite their competitive spirit. There are other great contestants too like Shah Iskandar who was such a gentlemen and a good supporter to his team member, Samsuri who was such a tough competitor and excelled in most of the challenges, and Dira who has such a high spirit to continue on with the challenges despite suffering from asthma. And also there was Fify, who joined the show in the hope of winning the money to support his father who was in a coma. Her sad background story made me remember her despite her being in the team that were first to be eliminated from the show. Her story showed that it was not all fun and games for these contestants; some of them did joined the show for a great cause.

With this season being quite a good season overall, I believe they would continue with a third season. I also suspect that they will still continue bringing in celebrities like what they did with this season. Of course celebrities can help bring more viewers to the show but I hope they would try to do a normal season with all non-celebrity contestants. If Masterchef Malaysia can do it, why not Fear Factor Malaysia? And perhaps they can also try to localized Survivor as well?

Kudos to the team behind this show as well for bringing in another great season to the viewers and hopefully they will continue their hard work for another season.

Image from Fear Factor Malaysia official website.

Asia's Next Top Model Cycle 2 ~ Top 10 Favourite Photos ~ No. 5 - No. 1

So here we are again. For those who missed my previous post, here's a little background for you. Asia's Next Top Model season 2 had finished airing quite some time ago and I am listing down my top 10 favourite photos of the season. In the earlier post, I've listed the photos that resided at number 10 to number 6. If you missed the post, you can click here to read it. As for this post, let's continue on with the photos that are in the top 5. Scroll down to find out.

5 ~ Jodilly

Contestant: Jodilly Pendre
Episode: 5
From: Philippines

Jodilly can take beautiful shots, and I personally feel that this shot from episode 5 is one of her strongest shot in the competition.I like her pose for this photo and she made it seemed effortless, which I'm sure was not the case. It must be tiring for her to pose like that and at the same time to remain composed, but she managed it and resulted in this beautiful photo. A job well done.

4 ~ Marie

Contestant: Marie Nakagawa
Episode: 9
From: Japan

Marie is my personal favourite contestant from this season and my pick to win the competition. Although she didn't win, she still managed to climb all the way to the top 4 finalists. She's a gorgeous girl and down-to-earth which makes me love her even more. I love this shot of Marie as she looks beautiful and unique in this photo. There is some quality in it that I couldn't really describe that made her look strikingly good. The pose, facial expression, make-up and outfit all blend together perfectly well that makes this photo absolutely stunning. I love this photo very much.

Asia's Next Top Model Cycle 2 ~ Top 10 Favourite Photos ~ No. 10 - No. 6

Asia's Next Top Model had wrapped up its second season on StarWorld and congratulations again to Sheena for winning the title. There are many beautiful shots were taken during the season, so I've decided to come out with my own top 10 favourite photos of the season. It's not an easy job, I can tell you that, but somehow I've managed to list them up. In this 1st part, let's see who's at number 10 to number 6. Caution though, some of the images might not be suitable for young viewers. Now let's start!

10 ~ Janice

Contestant: Janice Hermijanto
Episode: 6
From: Indonesia

This may not be a popular choice by landing Janice at number 10 as the judges hated this photo of her, one of the judges even asked her why she kept on pulling her hair, and Janice ended up in the bottom two for this episode. For the judges, her photo was not high-fashion enough. But strangely, I kind of like this photo. It looks unique and with her pulling her hair like that making it look kind of sexy. I sometime have different opinion on who have the best and worst photos compared to the judges' opinions but for this one, I don't have any clue why judges would hate it that much. It may not be the best photo out of the bunch but I feel it's not the worst either. Personally, I like this photo, she looks nice.

9 ~ Sheena

Contestant: Sheena Liam
Episode: 13
From: Malaysia

This is the final episode of the season and the final photoshoot for them as well, and I can truly say that Sheena delivered in this photoshoot. She looks gorgeous, expensive, and her expression was good. As one of the most consistent contestant of the season (she had a top 3 call-out for eight times from episode 1 until episode 11) she is definitely one to be watched out for by other contestants. And she's also one of my favourite contestant personality-wise. She has a lot of charisma about her and a high-fashion look (well, to my standard at least) and this photo definitely shows that.

What to watch? ~ 2014 movies: May

Summer movies season is finally here! Lots of blockbuster movies are now ready to battle each other to be at the top of the box-office. Which of them will succeed? And which of them will fail? It will be a pack summer this year, that's for sure. Here are some of the movies that I'm most excited for that will be released in May. Let's check it out.

1. The Amazing Spider-Man 2

After an unnecessary reboot (which turned out to be quite an interesting movie anyway), now the sequel to that reboot film is ready to bring audiences to another great adventure with spidey. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will pit Spider-Man against three villains; Electro, Green Goblin and The Rhino, and will further explore the relationship between Peter Parker's past and Oscorp. Interestingly, two more sequels had already being planned, with the third film is scheduled to be released in 2016 and the fourth film in 2018, with two more spin-offs are being planned as well. Looks like Sony has a lot of faith in this franchise, and only time will tell if the franchise could even survive that long. Personally, I think this new take on the character is refreshing and I certainly don't mind more sequels if the studio manage to keep on producing good films. Let's hope for the best. The movie starred Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone once again as Peter Parker a.k.a. Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy alongside newcomers of the franchise Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan and Paul Giamatti. Although already released in certain markets, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 would be released in US on May 2, 2014.


2. Godzilla

As a kid, I really like the 1998 Godzilla movie from Hollywood but as I grew older I understand why most people hated it. Now Hollywood is trying again with a new Godzilla movie and judging by the trailers, it looks like this dark take on the monstrous creature is going to be good. But I'm not sure how this movie will perform at the box-office. Last year we had a same kind of movie with giant monsters in Pacific Rim, although it made quite a lot of money at the box-office, it did poorly in certain markets. Hopefully Godzilla will perform better in those markets and do well overall. We will just have to wait and see. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen (just a side note, this two will again appear together in Avenger's: Age of Ultron as Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver and Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch respectively), Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins and Juliette Binoche, Godzilla is scheduled to be released on May 16, 2014.