Who will be the first Malaysian Apprentice?

Let flashing back to the first time I knew how the reality game, The Apprentice, in the middle of 2004. On my first sight I watched the preview for the next episode of the Apprentice season 1. I saw the contestant, or we can refers as the candidates, seemed with a variety of their crazy expression. They acted look like: exited, laughing, and while the others show disappointment. For me, I exactly don’t understand what they were actually doing. It such a blur imitation for me about the gameshow. Suddenly, many thought running in my mind. What are they playing for? How the game-play was running?

Later on, I’d questioned to my mom about this reality-game-show. The answer is the game is similar to SURVIVOR (in fact, both were directed by the same person, Mark Burnett) But the differences are the host might say “you’re fired” to eliminate the candidates (contrast to “the tribe has spoken” in SURVIVOR). And the candidates were having luxurious life in the concrete jungle, with all their needs. For the game-play, basically is just not much different to SURVIVOR series. In each one-hour series, each candidate in teams get a main task. If one team won, they’ll get something surprising. While, the loser team, one (or even two) of the team will be fired. A man with all h has, a multi-billionaire real-estate owner, Donald J. Trump, the only person who has the full-power to fire someone.

And that’s it for the intro for my brainchild of the Malaysian Apprentice below. Blog is the place to write anything. But, don’t just copy n cat.

In the new millennium era, Malaysian television’s watchers are demanding more excitement, thriller, high stakes, heart-stopping action, and sexier and, of course, more cash in the incoming gameshows. Now we can say that it’s not enough to say that commercial entertainment has to be just music stuffs and movies or gaming. We may like to see controversy, conspiracy, criticism and tactics. That’s why TV reality show was tremendously growth in the international TV broadcasting. As the result, I just want to mention local programs here, we can be proud of Explorace, Malaysian Idol(MI), Akademi Fantasia(AF), Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Nescafe Kick-Start, Aspirasiku, Malaysian Top Host and more (which are not so popular). And the number of the TV reality shows will grow time by time.

Nevertheless, I’m sick with the SMS concept TV gameshows especially AF and MI, which the viewers have rights to vote the contestant. In my opinion, it is just wasting money, and the rate per SMS is about 50 cents, quite high. Vote for nothing. On the other side, for what we want to produce a lot of singer. But it depends on personal preserve.

As the alternative for that, it’s better to create people whom can give benefit to nation, races and religion. For instance, in business and career arena, we’ve Nescafe Kick-Start (for now as I knew). Perhaps, it’ll open Malaysian eyes, at least a bit, to see Malaysian citizen are also have their terrific ideas or concepts in making something new. Moreover, we also want to create people who can manage one big company after undergoing the ultimate job interview. Yes, what if Malaysian TV producer create something like The Apprentice series.

The main idea comes by. The points might seem less than the intro.

Looking forward, we may absorb The Apprentice’s concept into Malaysian and local environment. Have you wonder what it will be? Who will be the Malaysian Trump? Frankly, it’s hard to figure out as Malaysia is a third-world country. But why not just give a try to make it true, or at least just a rough plan.

The title - I prefer with The Malaysian Apprentice. Kalau bahasa Melayu bagi nama ‘Oh Pararintis’.

Language - dual-language (Malay + English)

The games - sell own newspaper, milk, cheese… create art, music, promotion… and lots more, you name it.

The host - I prefer … maybe Mr. Jalaludin Hassan. Or somebody who have their own successful business such: Mr. Yusof Haslam, Mr. Bukhari…

How to fire – we can say “mat… kamu dipecat”

The candidate – 8 persons in one team and they will be 2 team.

The prize – must be so irresistible, big cash or a good position in a company.

Thanks for reading this article, more to be updated in future. The writer doesn’t have any relation with Donald Trump and any others TV company. Please give a comment.