Oprah's Big Give

Hi,

I came across the show in the NTV7 on Tuesday night 8.30pm when trying to check on the election result of Permatang Pauh yesterday. I guess this is really a coincidence to find a good TV show.

The show was called Oprah's Big Give. This is a very innovative and beneficial to the community. It's putting a new twist to a normal reality show where it's encouraged giving rather than getting. In this episode, all the contestants were given USD100 000 to spend on to help with the community.

The catch is you can't give the money out directly and secondly you can give up to USD500/person or USD10000/charitable organization/foundation. There's a time limit of 12 hours for that task. If you think it's easy to give out that sum amount of money, think again. In the end, only 1 contestant was able to give it out all away.

Viewers were shown how each contestant trying their best in giving out the money they received. Most of the time the people are indeed skeptical initially since there's just too good to be true. But once they know that it's for real, people accept it graciously. We would say it's truly heart warming event when seeing people really touched by their kindness.

We truly wish that similar show can be done in Malaysia. There's a lot of people indeed need help and nowadays the inflation are more than 20 years high. It would really make the difference to the world.

The contestants will be eliminated by a panel of judges via voting. This is different from the The Survivor where contestant trying to vote someone out. Judging criteria includes creativity and effort performed throughout the challenge. There's even Jamie Oliver as a judge too.

In conclusion, the world truly need more random act of kindness... let's hope it continues on to Season 2...

If you seriously would like to know more, you can check it out here.