Hunt the Hunk

Well yeah, one of the male pageants has been held in Thailand, it is Manhunt 2012. The place itself was held in Scala Theatre, Bangkok, Thailand. Indonesia has sent Akbar Kurniawan and he is the first runner up of L-Men from D. I. Yogyakarta, a brand of protein milk for men. He was competing with more than 50 men around the world to get the title of Manhunt International 2012.

Here are some of Akbar’s photos...

(Indonesia arrived and took photo with Taiwan, Macau and Bolivia)

(The Indonesia's national costume)

(Indonesia took photo for the sponsor: Aussiebums)

(Akbar with the grand final swimsuit)

The contestants have gone around Thailand such as went to the temple, fish market, etc...

They had to attend the orientation days, photoshoots for sponsors, rehearsals, fitting, press sessions, etc...

Here are the contestants...

(Albania: Greit Collaku, 18, 190 cm)

(Australia: Lee Stramkowski, 25, 187 cm)

(Bahamas: Drew Palacious, 23, 187 cm / He got the title for Mr. Personality)

(Bolivia: Diego Soto Arce, 26, 194 cm)

(Bosnia: Tarik Subara, 18, 190 cm)

(Brazil: Marcio Lusardo, 28, 188 cm)

(Bulgaria: Daniel Georgiev, 18, 185)

(Cambodia: Sary Phanith, 28, 181 cm)

 (China: Liu Mingxiong, 30, 185)

 (Costa Rica: Jorge Suarez, 22, 184 cm)

 (Czech Republic: Adam Klavik, 22, 191 cm)

(France: Guillaume Reydel, 25, 180 cm)

 (Germany: Cedric Pick, 25, 182 cm)

(Hong Kong: Guo ChuangTao, 20, 188 cm)

(Hong Kong got the Best National Costume)

 (Indonesia: Akbar Kurniawan, 24, 180 cm)

 (Iran: Farhad Mosaffa, 23, 184 cm)

(Japan: Shintaro Kato, 21, 181 cm) 

(Lebanon: Elie Najem, 19, 184 cm)

(Lesotho: Pubern Padayachee, 27, 184 cm)

(Macedonia: Martin Tasevski, 24, 189 cm)

(Malaysia: John Tan, 23, 183 cm)

(Mexico: Alejandro Hererra Garcia, 24, 190 cm)

(Mongolia: Bilguitei Buyankhishig, 21. 183 cm)

(Nepal: Sanish Sgakya, 23, 187 cm)

(Nigeria: Stephen Bakare, 30, 193 cm (I couldn't find his official photoshoot with Haruehun Airry, so I picked his photo on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=254154544694024&set=pb.231491186960360.-2207520000.1352999512&type=3&theater)

(Panama: Henry Rodriguez, 23, 190 cm)

 (Peru: Dany Pena, 23, 186 cm)

(Poland: Nical Danilewicz, 23, 188 cm)

 (Portugal: Arthur Barbosa, 20, 182 cm)

 (Romania: Andre Malaescu Dumitriu, 25, 180 cm)

 (Slovakia: Karol Maly, 24, 184 cm)

(South Africa: Armand du Plessis, 23, 185 cm)

 (Spain: Miguel Arce, 22, 185 cm)

 (Sri Lanka, Madura Peiris, 23, 186 cm)

(Taiwan: Fu Sheng-Chieh, 30, 183 cm)

(Turkey: Bugra Tugrul, 20, 188 cm)

(Vietnam: Huan Nguyen, 24, 185 cm)

(Vietnam's national costume got the first runner up place)

And the top 15 are...

(Venezuela: Jeyco Estaba, 28, 188 cm)

(Veneuela's national costume got second runner up place)

(Thailand: Mookkapon Posakabuth, 27, 182 cm)

(Switzerland: Lavdrim Sylejmani, 24, 186 cm)

(Latvia: Ivans Jevstignejevs, 24, 189 cm / He got the title for the Best Runway Model)

(India: Arry Dabas, 26, 186 cm/ / He got the title for Mr. Photogenic)

(Greece: Thomas Gabriel, 22, 182 cm)

(Dominican Republic: Joel Perez, 23, 183 cm)

(Denmark: Alexander Bach, 25, 185 cm /  He got the title for Mr. Friendship)

(Colombia: Jorge Perez, 21, 185 cm)

 (America: Andres Giraldo, 22, 180 cm)

Before we head to the next top 5, let us see the snap shots of the show...

 The 5 left and the countdown to the Manhunt International 2012...

The fourth place goes to...

(Singapore: Jason Chee. 24, 180 cm / He got the title for Mr. Internet Popularity)

The third place goes to...

(Puerto Rico: Jimmy Perez Rivera, 21, 188 cm / He got the title for the Face of the Year)

The third place goes to...

(Macau: Martin Wang, 25, 188 cm / He got the title for Mr. Physique)

 The second place goes to...

(Sweden: Bo Peter Jonsson, 28, 191 cm)

Before we know who is the next brand new Manhunt International, I would like to introduce you to John Chen Jian Feng, the last year Manhunt. John is from China. He is 23 years old and his height is 188 cm.

   

The Manhunt International 2012 goes to...

(Philippines: June Masacaet, 29, 185 cm / He becomes the face for New Urban Male)

In my opinion, June deserved to win. He has a lot of experiences in modeling world yet he has a charisma besides his good looking and great body which he is not too thin, not too big, not too tall and not too short. I also love Peter and I believe the judges must done their hard and long deliberation to choose between Sweden and Phillipines, because both of the have that kind of Manhunt International face. Congratulations June!!!

As the winner of Manhunt International, June had the opportunity to take photos with Haruehun Airry and the results were great!!!

I wanna share my experience when I gave comment about Albania's photo and there is a quite interesting incident.

Fans can be as the mirror or the reflection of their idol. However, there is also another incident about fans and it happen to Haruehun Airry.

Words can lift us up or maybe it can bring us down and fans will do anything to stand up for their idol but somehow their way is just wrong. Talking about fans, Akbar from Indonesia also has his own problem to deal with his position and his fans, especially gay fans. When you are talking about modeling and you are active in it, you have to know the deal that you are as the public figure and as the public figure you will have fans and because of fans you can be better known than ever. Modeling world is identic with gay because some of them know a lot about it. Akbar wrote some rude tweets, because some of his fans asking about his sexual orientation and assumed that he is gay. Akbar got offended and he wrote some rude tweets but not much later, he delete them. He judged gay people as the sick people and because of them, the doom is near. As we know, Akbar is the first runner up of L-Men, a brand of protein milk and he brings L-Men name, whenever he goes. I hope Akbar could learned from his attitude and I believe L-Men also has handled him. Good luck for your future, Akbar.

PS: I do not own for the whole pictures. They belong to Haruehun Airry and Manhunt International. https://www.facebook.com/haruehun.airry?fref=ts  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Manhunt-International/253742254726891?fref=ts