Malaysian Dreamgirl 2: Up Close & Personal

Out of many weeks, despite all of the photo shoots and some funny dramas in Malaysian Dreamgirl 2, this week is the best! Why? At first glance, these final four girls may seem to have certain gifts in them especially in this modeling industry. They appear to be the next models on the up and coming runway shows or perhaps another face which we all will see on some magazines. Despite all these, they are just ordinary people who lead somewhat normal life. Perhaps they could be the person sitting next to you in a cinema or sharing the same teh tarik and char koay teow at our local food court. Just ordinary, I would say.

This week, the organizer of MDG2 had made a plan in which the girls were sent home to meet their parents and boyfriends. I found it really interesting when the girls were interviewed. They revealed certain episodes of their life to viewers. Some seemed to be pretty normal and some were kind of rather touching. It was more to mixed feelings kind of thing overall. Ming, for instance, loves singing and I would say that she has pretty voice! She demonstrated her singing with her boyfriend playing the guitar when she brought the crew to Malacca to meet her family members and her boyfriend. I believe she should pursue that dream of hers. With undivided support from her parents and her boyfriend, she could be the next recording artist.

Ming

Other than Ming, Dawn, as usual a bit bubbly as she always do. Perhaps it is her nature to be that way. She has shown pretty good and interesting record in MDG2 all this while. Dawn, from her nature is a person who is quite mature. She knows what she is getting into and she tries her best to make it work. That is one her best quality. She is adaptive and she does not complain much no matter what people put on her even though she got almost bald; her hair was like a half cut watermelon served at Paris Restaurant in one of the photo shoots. However, she does not seem to focus much on what she says. As featured in the latest video, she often missed out and failed to get to the point when answering some questions asked. She is easily carried away in her conversations. Somebody has got to pull her back on the track once in a while. Funny but it is true.

Dawn

Juanita fits the whole package to be a model as commented by Julie, who happens to be one of the judges. Juanita indeed has all of what it takes to be our next MDG but there is one part of her which I think still the main issue. Her expression perhaps is one of the toughest problems which she has to overcome as soon as possible. She has the look, the height, the figure and as well as the language. All she needs now is the expressions to complete her package to be one. I am pretty sure she can train herself and work on it. All these while, I notice that Juanita has never fallen into any of the bottom three yet. This shows that she has pretty strong supporters out there. Maybe people love her or perhaps she is just lucky. Either way, she deserves to be a model.

Juanita

For Pinky, I salute her. This time it is not about her successful photo shoots and funny characters sometimes but about her true self. Despite her so called "disability" in terms of her language, she faces the reality with all her strength and pride. She never denies the fact that she cannot speak well. That does not stop her to be our next MDG, right? She can always learn the language later. It is never too late. The most important part that I would like to reveal about her is that her personal life. She may be seen as some typical girl who can be stamped as 'High Maintenance' or perhaps materialistic, to put it bluntly. But, guess one more time, she is not. Though that may not surprises some people but it surely surprises others who do not know her. I have come to learn that Pinky has a wonderful heart. She knows money and wealth do not guarantee happiness. She understands that love cannot be exchanged for any of those. Despite her mother’s disfavor of her love life with Ah Fai, she still embraces her love closely. Ah Fai is indeed a very lucky man. And, I know this may not be important to MDG but if the next model to be chosen please let it be someone with the heart not someone who is only chasing after popularity. After all, a model is someone who can influence people and not the other way around.

Pinky

Overall, these girls deserve to be models. But in every competition, only one winner will be chosen. Whoever is chosen to be the next MDG is indeed a person who surpasses all the obstacles and hail victorious. Next week, the model with the lowest SMS votes for this 2 week period will be eliminated and the 3 remaining models will then go on to the Grand Finale where 1 of them will be crowned the next Malaysian Dreamgirl.

Hmmm... who will be eliminated next week?!