A note to our viewers

Reality shows are amazing things, aren't they? Prior to joining The Firm, many of us contestants had different ideas about what our involvement in the show will entail.

However, prior to our joining, what we did know about reality shows - like you, the viewer who have been watching The Firm: Season 2 is that reality shows are rife with bitches, jerks, sore-losers and cocky asses who must think really highly of themselves. Come on, you've caught Fear Factor - there's always a pair of cocky asses who'd go, "Yeah, we're so gonna win that one million bucks - the other teams are all a bunch of pansies and we're so gonna kick their butts!" Then the next thing you know, said team gets dumped in a glass container full of worms, cries uncle and then they'd have forfeited their chance of going to the next level and you the viewer will be, "Memalukan diri je. Tadi berlagak besar."

But ladies and gentlemen, this is precisely what reality shows are all about. The drama, the excitement, the rivalry, the sabotaging - that is why The Bold and the Beautiful (although not a reality show) has been on-going for many, many, many season and everyone in the show is as bitchy and as corrupted as ever.

Let's face it, the viewer has absolutely no idea how a reality show works behind the scenes. In all honesty, there's still plenty of you who feel that The Firm follows a script, yes? Unfortunately for us, all the things we say are a hundred per cent true - but the things that go during the editing process, the cutting out of certain 'positive' information, the inter-splicing of that randomly caught facial expression to go with the dialogue, and the re-arranging of scenes - makes for something that is to us, a bit unreal that it makes us go, "When did THAT happen?" but if you're too hung-up on these things, all you have is stress so a lot of us just watch the show, and laugh about the 'funny' bits afterwards.

I think, the negative aspects of the show is what captivates the audience. It's like how newspapers work. Nobody buys a paper if the front page is about a hundred goats being donated to some mosque for Hari Raya Haji. You want the gore, the rape stories, the Anwar Ibrahim sodomy stories, the Mamak Gang stories - and even though you say you're damn sick and tired of these things, plenty others still buy the newspaper for these things.

If everyone wanted to be positively jolly, we wouldn't want to watch our grown-up entertainment featuring the mean bitch of a mother-in-law, the cheating husband, the money laundering boss, the pregnant high school girl, etc. We'd still be watching Barney.

Anyway, just to make it clear. None of us joined the show with the intention of showcasing our worst sides to the TV viewers all over the country. And certainly you must take note that there are many things which occur off-camera which may cumulatively end up in a result which may feature rivalry, animosity and the like happening. Then it's also too bad that when the worst moments like an argument takes place and a camera is around to capture it - you know that it will most certainly make it on the screen. The show does not tell the entire story and the viewers must also be reminded that everybody, at some point of time, will bitch about other people - except that for the general case, their bitchings do not make it on TV for everybody to listen in on and judge.

The people in The Firm are people just like you. Being on the show doesn't mean we think we are any better than you. Like you, we have our flaws. Some people are bossy. Some people let themselves be walked all over. Some people are lazy. Some people are too demanding. But you know what, so are you if you can identify the traits mentioned and match them with your selves. However, at the same time, we have our own strengths. Some are creative. Some have the gift of the gab. Some are fair. Some are confident.

Give us a bit of credit, eh? At least we had the guts you didn't have to get onto a reality show.