When we walked towards the fruits section, something caught my attention. It’s the Ringo Custo Cacao! It’s more of the word ‘Ringo’ than the ‘Cacao’ itself, because it reminds me of Ringo – Cheesie, also Malaysian Dreamgirl 11!

So, I thought I saw this. Note that it’s just my own imagination/creation.

Anyway, I have just finished watching Malaysian Dreamgirl Episode 13. I am pleased that Ringo has always safe in the elimination round- have never being one of bottom 3, up until now. I strongly believe that she will qualify for final round next week.

From the photo shoot pictures, personally, I found that Ringo has appeared to be ‘cool’ and gorgeous in the later series, compared the ‘cutie’ type in the beginning. However, her personality/character still remains in the ‘cheerful’ mode, without much changes.

With 2 more weeks left before the show ends, I would really love to see Ringo creating the ‘WOW’ effects, especially in the final. Because I don’t quite agree with some comments that Ringo is brought back into the Top 12 to boost the popularity of the show (since she has a large reader base).

Ringo, you can do it! Go, Go, Ringo!

I first come to know about this programme through the blog of the popular blogger, Kenny Sia. He is one of the judges in the audition. You can find out more about his interesting opinions or perceptions on the characteristics of the girl Malaysian are looking forward to be their Malaysian Dreamgirl during the audition in the first two episodes.

I was waiting eagerly for the videos to be released after I have read several blogs about the audition, including the one by Kenny Sia, Pinkpau and Timothy Tiah. I started off by checking the Top 12 before watching the video and I found Ringo was also one of finalists. However, when the Top 12 finalists were announced, I was a bit surprised when Ringo didn’t qualify. That puzzled me. There seemed to be a ‘gap’ in explaining why Ringo is in the finalist yet in the last part of 2nd episode she was voted out. The ‘oh…… now I understand why she is in…… and that’s great news!’ came only when the 3rd episode was released. I wasn’t sure if that’s tailored to be so or there was really a ‘gap’.

After following through the first three episodes, I was eyeing Adeline, Jean and Ringo as my favorites. As the show continues further, of course with Jean pulling out due to some personal reasons, I have kind of decided to take Ringo as my only favorite, mainly due to her personality (that I learnt through the videos of Malaysian Dreamgirl). In fact, neither I know Ringo personally, nor her blog. But I got to know her through Kenny Sia’s blog, once again.

I attended the Malaysian Dreamgirl fashion show in One Utama and spotted myself in the video (episode 5). So, just in case Ringo reads this, I was there to support you, but I can’t wave at you to say ‘I am here, Ringo’ when you said, ‘I don’t seem to be able to spot my friends… where are you my friends?…’, because you don’t know me.
(Source: Screen captured from Malaysian Dreamgirl Video Episode 5 Part 3)

I have also taken some shots of Ringo on different outfits, with my newbie photo-shooting skills. Please bear with me on the photo quality that might not have been able to capture the beauty of Ringo. Please visit the Photo Gallery at Malaysian Dreamgirl website for more Ringo photos.

Anyway, I just want to wish Ringo to march further towards the end and be the Malaysian Dreamgirl. There are many of us here supporting you. We, or at least me, join your Facebook Group, vote for you via SMS, download your sexy ringtones/alert tones…etc. Go Go Ringo!

  (Thanks to Kelvin Tan for this nice banner)

We have named the mocktail MCE. If you realize, it originates from the team name (ECM). We merely just reverse it. At the same time, we have expanded MCE to also means ‘Mocktail Created by ECM‘.

Before the portluck session, I have volunteered to test out several mocktail recipes before suggesting them to the team. I spent the last weekend trying out several ‘wierd tasting’ mocktails. Since I was using pure fruit juices as the ingredients, I found out lime juice and grapefruit juice are the ‘anti-social’ type of juices that don’t blend well with the other juices, yet over-kill the tastes of the rest. However, that may be the reason some recipes use them to create the uniqueness of the drink.

The following are a few successful, nice tasting mocktails that I eventually proposed to the team members. The wierd name for each recipes is created from the nickname of my team members. And we had a User Acceptance Test (UAT) on Wednesday to select the best accepted mocktail to be made for the mocktail.

MCE Blue-Boo

MCE Yeah-Ric-Son

MCE Original

After the testing and fine-tuning of the recipes, the team concluded to ‘present’ MCE Yeah-Ric-Son during the portluck session. The original recipe for this drink was taken from one of the famous mocktail- Shirley’s Temple. However, the team members preferred a different fruit juice, compared to the original Orange juice and a bit of Grenadine juice. That fits well as the mocktail created by the ECM team.

I woke up early and went to the hair saloon near my house for a quick hair cut. Since Chinese New Year is just around the corner and it’s a public holiday for the Federal Territory, many people were ahead of me. However, I just waited for 15 minutes.

After 20 minutes of hair ‘styling’, the result is as the following. Of course, I ‘added’ more ‘style’ by wearing a sun glasses. Do comment.

Hope you will like it and visit this blog frequently.