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TODAY! Today was the event for the 20 finalists of F&N's competition! Prior to this, I had to interview the finalists and prepare news releases and such. So today, everything pretty much fell into place juuuuust nice. :3

The venue was in Sunway Pyramid, so, knowing how the traffic is over there, we all decided to come early to set things up.

The stage~

The blowing chamber on stage~

The other area (part of the competition)~

The slaves~

Mei Cher and my boss, Kak Ina~

Me.

So the competition went like this. They have 20 finalists, and well, to be fair for these 20 finalists, F&N came up with a lil' Amazing Race-like competition for these contestants.

The finalists~ (apparently, only one noticed my camera)

So they grouped together the finalists in 10s (when the emcee called out the contestants, he read out the interview notes I typed out the other night! X3)...

...gave each and everyone of 'em an envelope. When the whistle blows, they're suppose to go run to Jusco (the nearest supermarket) to find their materials in there to make their teh tariks~

See how they go! =D

And once they've collected their materials, they go to the first station to make their first teh tarik using F&N's new recipe on the three layer teh tarik...or something of the sort. I didn't take a picture of that one. o.o

The first station~

Once that's cleared, they move to their next station by the stage to complete the last task: to make the perfect teh tarik according to F&N standards.

So off they work~

And if the judges say "no" (note the red card)~

They do it again until it's done. Apparently, this guy's the last one doing, and time ran out before he could perfect his teh tarik. A shame, really, he was quite fun to interview over the phone. XD

So once that was done, the judges gather around the results and count 'em off. While that went on, we were entertained by this man who claims to be the Teh Tarik King, winning 3 Teh Tarik championships. o.o

(unfortunately, I can't seem to load my video into this one. It was one heluva funny show though. XD)

And when all is finished, it was time for the announcement of the winners! And the winner is...I'll give you a hint; it's among these people here. (and no, it's not the guy there with the mock cheque, he won the consolation price)

Still can't guess? Right, I'll lessen the numbers then~

No? Well then, I'll just--

Oh my! Someone just passed out on stage!

Yes, ladies and gentleman, this man who nearly died from shock, IS THE WINNER! =D But he only won RM 25 000 instead of RM 500 000, because you see, in order to win the 500k, he has to get into the blowing chamber and grab flying envelopes. In the many envelopes flying in there, the 500k lurks within it~

So the day ends as it is~ And tomorrow, the post-mortem report BEGINS.