Biggest Loser Asia finale

Waited one and a half hours for the so-called live broadcast of the Biggest Loser Asia season finale on the Hallmark Channel, which took place right here in Malaysia last night. (Word was it got delayed that long was because of blackout in the studio, or something to that effect). So the finale was in essence, pre-taped. That was the first downer. I guess it's a good thing that I never got tickets to see it in person :P

I also didn't expect the show to be 2 hours long, which is stupid in retrospect (as the American ones are about as long), but still.

Sarimah introduced the former contestants, who have been pimped up good for the finale. They claimed to have lost all that weight since they got the boot, but you couldn't tell as they still looked the same to the naked eye (half of them are at least 2/3 their starting weight). I'm pretty sure that Garry's second proposal to his wife on camera wasn't totally unplanned in advance, but it wasn't a bad one.

I don't really have anything to say about Bob and Jillian's Skype appearance other than, I didn't know they gave a shit.

As each of the finalists finally broke through the paper, I knew that Aaron (the Malaysian finalist) cannot possibly win because he pretty much looked the same size he was when he left Malacca. Of course you can't miss Sarimah's crack about him having the shortest commute to the finale. Martha the HK chick also didn't stand a chance, even if she spent all that time before the finale training in Thailand with Tony and Garry. And to be fair, she was also about the same size :P

The finalists' video packages were entertaining - trust the wives to make it more so. It was funny when Carlo's wife asked what happened to her teddy bear cos she now has an action figure, haha.

In the end, the real battle was between the Philippines and Indonesia with Carlo and David, which seems pretty close until David burst through the paper and I was like, "oh shit - the guy was so manorexic, he wins for sure", albeit looking worse than Carlo, who's still healthy looking.

The major downer for me was David winning the cash and the car (I wonder if they're actually shipping it to Indonesia?).

He looked so gaunt and scary there's no way that how he got there can be healthy. Quite frankly, I can't wait to hear that he's put back half the weight later down the road and when he finally gets back to work because he took leave to train 8-10 hours a day (which is not realistic) at the gym before the finale. Out of all the finalists, Carlo was the only one that didn't take a leave of absence from work for the finale and made the most of his limited gym time. Good man. I'm not the only one who wanted Carlo to win.

Speaking of Malaysians, the only Malaysian that won anything on that finale was one of the at-home contestants Zenny, who won USD12,000, as well as her trainer, who got a trip to Gold Coast, Australia (Air Asia for sure) and $1000 spending money. Nice.