Culturally Preconditioned

This is going to be a short entry cause (a) I have to be at work again in about 2 hours time (b) it is yet again a Non-Elimination Leg (c) Eric and Danielle are still in the race.

The teams started off this leg by travelling to Macau by ferry from Hong Kong. Even though the were the first to arrive at the pitstop in the last leg, they had already spent all of their money (I blame it on the asshole at the gas station in Hartamas who sold off the newspaper at over RM300). Oswald had one of the funnier lines of the night : “Are we allowed to prostitute ourselves in the race?” LOL

The teams had to retrieve their clue from a rickshaw guy and then had to proceed to Macau Tower to do the world’s highest sky jump (an over 500ft drop from above the tower). Now, this is the shit I’ve been talking about. You get on Amazing Race, you get to do all these awesome sort of challenges (as much as I loved the Malaysian leg, the challenges in Kuala Lumpur pretty much sucked major ass).

There was a cautionary memo that there was a Yield ahead. Since the Beauty Queens had already used their yield on Eric and Danielle, they weren’t able to use it again. Danny & Oswald proposed that they will use Yield on the BQs behalf. The BQs can choose who they wish to yield, in exchange for some cash that Danny & Oswald really needs. The BQs chose to yield Eric & Danielle, yet again. These two are eeeeevil bitches. But I like it! And especially so that they yielded the same fuckers again.

Anyway, they all got bunched up quite closely because the hours of operations was at 11 am. Eric and Danielle got pissed. More so Eric. Anyone get the feeling like they’re watching a little boy who was denied of his Koko Krunch at breakfast? Yeah, me too. Very mature, there Eric.

They next had to find a clue at the Lou Lim Ioc garden, which then led them to a detour between (a) noodles - where they had to use traditional methods to make the noodles, or (b) dragon - find a dragon head and drums and carry it to the dragon boats on the race. All teams with the exception of Danny & Oswald did the noodles challenge and breezed through it (except Schmirna). The challenge looked like a lot of fun, but the bouncing on the pony sticks did look a little suggestive. And ewwww to Charla with her shoes on the table where they rolled out the noodles.

Karma’s a bizzle and that was evident when Danny & Oswald, gets a sucky taxi driver who drove them to the wrong place, and then they get lost on the streets trying to find the dragon boats on the lake. That was kinda painful to watch. They were in first place. If I ever get to be on the show, I will pray my damn hardest not to be cursed with an idiotic cab driver.

Teams had to find the Mini Moke, sort of a rickety buggy car and drive themselves to the pitstop. Mirna being Mirna, had to drive the mini moke up a curb. LOL. I was expecting her to throw a TyraTirade when the vehicles behind her started honking, but surprisingly she didn’t. Unsurprisingly, however, a lot of the locals came over and helped them.

In the end, all teams made it to the pitstop which was on Taipa Island. The order of arrival at the pitstop : (1) Dustin & Kandace (2) Eric & Danielle - who then had to incur their 30 minute penalty for being last on the previous non elimination leg - this pushed them to number (3). (2) Charla Mirna. and finally (4) Danny & Oswald. Luckily for them this was a non-elimination leg.

Now, I LOVE the fact the Danny & Oswald were saved from elimination, but what the fuck was up with two back to back non-elimination legs? That means that Eric & Danielle, who were ‘marked for elimination’, wouldn’t even get eliminated if they come into last place again. What bull is this? Anyway, I’m glad the Chas are still in this. Oh well.

Oooh.. and I’m sure a lot of you have seen this
Nokia’s Wireless Adventure (KL)

I guess this might be the next closest thing to The Amazing Race, eh? (except for Explorace, but since I’ve boycotted local tv channels except for ntv7’s Deal or No Deal, that doesn’t count)