Tough leg for The Cuties

This race is crazy or what?

Nothing is impossible in TARA. From 1st you can ended up last. From happy couple to struggling-to-keep-the-relationship couple. You can also get bad luck continuously but arrive 1st at the pit stop, or you can get bad luck continuously where you can't even complete a task.

In the 5th leg of the race, teams started off from Taipei City Hall Square and headed to Sony Style Store in Sogo for their task. They must find the correct disc from the 1,000 Blu-ray disc to get their next clue. Some teams were lucky to have found the disc in a short time but others spent hours and hours to find it. Sam & Vince found the disc 1st and got their next clue and Fast Forward task. They decided to check the Fast Forward and surprised to find out that they would required to have a tattoo each. But, for the sake of the race, they did the task, the one and only Fast Forward in this race. Because of that, Sam & Vince became the 1st team to arrive at the pit stop which was at the Taiwan Astronomical Museum.

Other teams made their way to the Taiwan Coal Mine Musuem and faced with a Roadblock. A member from the team must dig out 100 kg of coal for a souvenir. It got pretty hard and frustating because they didn't know what they were digging for. Finally, they found the souvenir, The Amazing Race silver coin, and got their next clue which was a Detour.

In Detour, teams must choose between Pick or Pail. In Pick, teams must drive to a local mall in Taipei and retrieve 3 soft toys from a game machine. While in Pail, teams must head to the Grand Tong Temple and collect a bucket of water. Then they must cart the bucket up the hill and deliver it to a monk. All the teams chose Pick while only Ida & Tania chose Pail.

All the teams then proceeded to the pit stop with Henry & Bernie in 2nd place, A.D. & Fuzzie 3rd, Geoff & Tisha 4th and Ida & Tania 5th. Mai & Oliver, who still haven't got the right Blu-ray disc at the Sony Style store, were forced to leave without completing the task as the mall was closing. With the clue, they got a help from a taxi driver to guide them to the coal mine. But bad luck struck again as the taxi brokedown halfway on the road. They decided to sleep in the car and completed the task the next morning. But early in the morning, Allan knocked on their car's window and announced that they have been eliminated as all the teams had arrived at the pit stop.

I must say, I felt tired watching the teams completing the tasks as if I were the one who was doing them, it were so physically demanding! If I, who were a TV audience, can get tired (not to mention frustrated) just by watching at them, imagine how must they have felt. So because of that, I salute them for all their hard work and effort.

I wonder what crazy things would happen in the 6th leg of the race.

Here they come Taiwan!

Hi guys, I'm back from my holidays! So here is the recap of The Amazing Race Asia season 3 episode 4.

And so they went to Taiwan.

In the beginning of the leg, the teams learned that they must fly to Taipei, Taiwan. So off they went to the airport only to find out that it was closed. All the teams spent their night at the airport but Ida & Tania decided to go to the hotel lobby. Wow, classy! Anyway they didn't missed the flight and all the teams flew to Taiwan via Ho Chi Minh.

In previous leg, all they need to do were take a cab or they were provided a driver (and just navigate the way) but now they need to drive a marked car and find their way. And so they made their way to the Detour, and ,must choose between Shoot It or Shape It. The busy road of Taipei and confusing road signs gave headaches to the racers but finally they manage to arrive at their destination...except for Niroo and Kapil who were kinda late because they got their car key stuck at the ignition. I wonder what happened?

All the teams picked Shoot It except A.D. & Fuzzie who picked Shape It. In Shoot It, teams need to shoot a picture with a Sony Cybershot digital camera in the Miniatures Museum without knowing what to shoot at. Their only clue, they will know it once they see it. It turned out to be a super-mini (seriously!) miniature of The Amazing Race clue envelope. While in Shape It, teams must go to Raohe Street Night Market and solve four sets of figures using a large tangram set. A.D & Fuzzie sure made it looked easy.

Then, they must drive to the Institute of the Blind for their next clue. Once there, they learned that their clue was written in Braille. One member of the team must read the Braille clue while the other decodes it. Henry & Bernie were having problems with the clue and they spent quite some time at the institute. Meanwhile, Sam & Vince got the special clue envelope and present the institute with a US$20,000 donation.

After that, teams had to face a difficult Roadblock...eating a large bowl of stinky tofu! Seriously, just looking at Ida, Oliver & Tisha completing the task made me wanna puke. I even wonder if the cooking is Halal. Anyway, Ida managed to finish it and Tania & her became the first team to arrive at the pitstop, which was at City Hall Square in Taipei. Sam & Vince were 2nd, Mai & Oliver were 3rd, Henry & Bernie were 4th, A.D & Fuzzie were 5th (they can also be considered 4th if u ask me since they team up with Henry & Bernie in finding the pitstop) and Tisha & Geoff were 6th.

Kapil did not complete the Roadblock task and Niroo & him made their way to the pitstop. Since they were last to arrive, so Niroo & Kapil were eliminated from the race.

I will recap episode 5 in the next post. Forgive me guys for taking so long to update my blog. Sorry!

Selamat Hari Raya!

Okay, here's a quick one before I go and buy food to break my last fast for this year Ramadhan.

I want to wish SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI @ HAPPY AIDILFITRI to all Muslims in this world. May Allah bless all of you and I hope we can together bring peace to this world and live in harmony with all other people with different races and religions.

I'm tired of war...don't you?

I'm taking a long break from work at the office to celebrate RAYA so I won't see you guys till maybe next week. Till then...happy holidays!!!

xxxHOLIC premieres tonight

xxxHOLIC premieres tonight on Animax (Channel 715, Astro Malaysia). I'm not sure when is the time but I think it's in the Supernatural @ 10 slot, so I think it's on 10 pm. Better check your Astro Guide (for Malaysians) to get the time right.

I'm not so familiar with this series by CLAMP. I know Cardcaptor Sakura, Angelic Layer, Chobits and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle but not this one. So I hope it's a good series like the rest that I mentioned.

Thanx to Anime Mikomi for the pic. Click here to go to that page.

Can't wait for tonight!

*Update~ Sorry, my bad. It airs on 8 pm (Malaysia time), not 10 pm. Sorry again.

There goes the Beauty Queens

Pailin, one of my favorite racers in TARA 3 (and the one I have a crush on!) was eliminated as she and her teammate arrived last at the pit stop in the 3rd leg of the race. I admire her strength, spirit, patience and everything that I witness about her and I believe she can go farther if she had a better partner. I'm talking about you, Natalie. But I guess I kinda understand how Nat felt, she did not expect the race to be this hard and she just lost her will to race. At least she still voluntered to do the Roadblock task that required her to search for old coins that represents 7 Emperors of the Nguyen Dynasty in a vast area and then arrange them in order of their reign. She did tried her hardest, if not best, to do the task. In fact she went twice to the locations where she found the coins to get the correct order but the race was taking its toll on her and she failed to complete the task. I was amazed to see how patient Pailin was with Natalie. Yeah she looked dissapointed when they were eliminated but still she managed to keep her cool. I'm impressed! Lucky Nat to have such a nice and understanding friend like Pailin. And that's why I LOVE Pailin!

In this 3rd leg of the race, the racers went to Hue, Vietnam by bus. It takes 25 hours for them to reach there! And when they arrived, they found out that they need to change a tire and oil from a jeep. Then with the jeep, they made their way to Khai Dinh Tomb for their Roadblock task, the one that I had explained above. After that, they faced a Detour and had to choose between Sticks or Stalks. They need to make 10 incense sticks in Sticks task while in Stalks task, they must thrash rice stalks to collect 2 baskets of rice grains. All the teams picked Sticks while only Geoff and Tisha picked Stalks after having difficulty in making the incense sticks.

Next, they headed to Quoc Hoc Park. From there,they need to paddle a cycle rickshaw to the pit stop at Hue Citadel. The rickshaw was definitely hard to control because all the teams were strugling with it. Henry & Bernie even toppled over on the read. What an accident. I hope they were fine. But with all the bad luck they had with their vehicle, Henry & Bernie still managed to arrived 1st at the pit stop 2 times in a row. Congratulations!

The race is getting tougher and the racers are reaching their limits. I wonder what happened in the next episode?