Culturally Preconditioned

Oh my heck. Where do I start? I have never had such major deja vu till I watched the episode last night. If any of you would recall my previous post of 2006 In Review :

” The Amazing Race : All Star Spoiler

No, I will not mention actually mention the spoilers here, but with the help of a friend (who I now owe a firstborn to, and) who tipped me off that The Amazing Race All Star was going to be shot here in Malaysia, I had personally managed to gain a hands on, first hand experience in watching The Amazing Race All Star being filmed. There is so much more to say on this, but … for reasons that I can’t really say right now, I won’t. You’ll just have to wait till April 2007, but believe me, you would want to watch this All Star series. Seriously. But that was the single most best Sunday I’ve ever had in my entire existence, and I’m not even exagerrating. Stay tuned, folks. “

Well, that episode, my friends, aired last night! Following a tip off that they will be shooting, we had managed to squeeze some info as to where they were possibily shooting and on what day. It was on a Sunday, so thankfully, I didn’t have to take the day off (you bet your ass I would, if it was on a workday.. work.. pfft!). Anyway, we managed to track down exactly where they were going to be.. at Batu Caves. We actually reached there before 6 am! The sky was still dark, but lo and behold! We saw people trudging camera equipments around. After several hours of waiting (and pretending we were innocent bystanders who were there to ‘exercise’.. LOL yeah right), we finally saw the teams coming in!!

* for pictures marked with asterisks, you can actually see the footage on the show

Batu Caves

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http://www.izadsyah.com/taras/cluebox.jpg

Charla & Mirna

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http://www.izadsyah.com/taras/1-03.jpg (they’re halfway up)
http://www.izadsyah.com/taras/1-04.jpg (they'’re coming down) * (tv camera view from the top)
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Danny & Oswald

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Dustin & Kandice

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http://www.izadsyah.com/taras/3-002.jpg

Bitch & Bitch

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Exciting, no? Aaaaanyway it was a really covert operation, we had to spy and listen really hard to know where they were heading next. We didn’t want them to get suspicious or anything. There were several of us in the ’spoiling crew’, so we had to delegate our ‘trailing’ tasks among ourselves. We only managed to follow a couple of teams.. but thankfully, Shah and another friend managed to follow them to the cookie detour (no prizes for guessing who shouted “Go Charla!”.. LOL. That wasn’t me by the way) AND the batik detour. (This part of the spoiler operation was not covered by me, personally as I was still waiting for the other teams at Batu Caves)

The final detour, was kind hard.. we only heard hartamas but wasn’t sure where, so that took us quite some time to search.. till we found the TAR Cluebox at the playground. YAY! So, me and other spoiling buddy Kim just hung around there. We didn’t take any pictures, as it was a residential area (unlike the public touristy area at Batu Caves where everyone was taking pictures). By the time we were there, Mirna already started the roadblock and the Beauty Queens already went off.

I managed to walk slowly to Charla.. and managed to say a couple of stuff.. (”Hi.. how are you doing.. you guys are doing great bla bla bla).. until a particularly unfriendly production crew member came forward to me and shushed me away (Please step away please.. no.. no pictures please… HELLO.. I wasn’t even holding my camera then *rolleyes*) so we went away and waited down the hill to watch them jual “Suuurat kabar laaaaamerrrr” LOL.

Kim and I were bickering with each other “should we help them.. i want to help them.. for fucks sake it’s charla and mirna… i really want to help them… but are they going to let us help them.. bla bla labia bla”. Then.. suddenly out of the blue moon (LOL I love this saying).. Kim basically ran out to Mirna and asked “Can I help???”. Uhuh.. that shameless bitch! Basically that’s what you people saw last night. And Mirna obviously said :

Tak malu betul perempuan ni (but I’m actually just jealous she got more camera time than me. LOL) !!! So we actually got to help Mirna push the cart up the hill!

LOL… Never have I imagined actually being able to take their pictures at Batu Caves, let alone participate in an actual Amazing Race roadblock… AND actually was able to help my most favourite reality contestant EVER!!!!!!!! I must the luckiest bitch on Earth that fateful day on December 10th 2006. Sundays has never NEVER been the same again.

Anyway, after we finished helping her, she made us clap our hands, do a little cheer and an embarassing little victory jig. Oh my heavens. You know typical crazy Mirna stuff? I am thanking all my stars that little fucking scene did NOT make the air in the episode last night. If it did, I will never be able to show my face in public ever again. Like.. ever.

After that was done, Charla and Mirna had troubles finding a taxi because like.. mana ada taxi lalu playground tengahhari buta? This little behind the scenes did NOT make it onto the final cut. Basically the other girl who helped Mirna tried calling for a taxi but, you know lah.. taxis in KL.. they don’t want to take you unless they know where heading (at that time, Mirna was still finishing up some tasks and hadn’t received her clue).

So Kim and me basically sped off in my car, to the nearest Petronas station where there were loads of taxi queueing up for gas. Kim got out of the car and begged a few taxis to come with us. After getting verbal abuses from two of the fuckers, the third taxi driver finally agreed to help, so Kim got into the taxi and they headed to where Charla and Mirna were waiting (I followed behind in my car). They didn’t show Kim get out of the taxi for Charla and Mirna last night, but we did see Mirna’s goodbye advising her to “stay in school and win lots of medals”. OMGWTFLOL.. stay in school.

Bloody attention whore. Smiling some more. I should be the one on tv goddammit! And you’re right, you really shoulda won that earrings. LOL (I’m still very very jealous one, can’t you tell?).

Well basically that was our mini TAR experience. It was awesome.. and unfuckingbelievable. It’s like any TAR fans dream come true. And the hardest thing was, we couldn’t really share this out with people and have been holding this back for the past FOUR months! So watching the show last night was a huge relief.

And LOL and we just sent in our TARA2 audition video and application today! With any luck, they might recognize us (or at the very least, that bitch KIM *grumble* *grumble* from the episode last night). And don’t even ask me about the Bobot thingy.

“Stay off drugs, stay in school, be a professional.” ROTFLMAO