Geoff and Tisha - Philippines

You know what Sprity? It doesn't matter who wins the game. I would be happy who wins it. The mere fact that GT are in the final 3 for not quitting or giving up is already an achievement.

And that's their opinion. I can't do anything about it. I know to respect their opinion and I am not here to dictate them what to think because it's beyond my control. I don't also give a try.

Don't worry I am a person who respect others opinion but not racist comments or fallacy of generalization.

hi jon....this is not to hurt u...

i jus shared wat others think.... and it is not of any racism....

Everyone like tisha..... some incidents as shown in the race made them against geoff...

i know that we cant change it....

the post i have posted is jus a sharing .... not to hurt anyone...

Dont mistake me....

I know you misunderstood my statement Sprity. Why don't you read it again.

hmmmm...my bad......

Jon do u have any idea about TARA4 audition...

go go go GT!!!!!!

All the best.........

good luck :)

go go... Geoff n Tisha...goooo

congrats geoff and tish for the 2nd place...!good jod guys!

The 'Amazing' experience
By Jerry Donato Updated November 21, 2008 12:00 AM

Tisha Silang and Geoff Rodriguez showed the Pinoy’s mental agility and physical strength in the season finale of AXN’s The Amazing Race Asia 3 by placing second to eventual winners Vince Chung and Sam Wu of Hong Kong. Malaysia’s Tania Khan and Ida Nerina arrived last in the pitstop.

Team Philippines has been consistently placing in the Top Three slots for two consecutive seasons. Last year, Marc Nelson and Rovilson Fernandez placed third. They still hold the record of having the most number of pitstops won by a team in the history of the reality TV show.

Tisha and Geoff started on the right foot by placing second in the take-off point, Bangkok. Then they slowed down and faltered in the succeeding challenges. The couple was back in the race in Hong Kong and found their momentum by topping two pitstops in the Macau and India legs.

Although the race was confined to Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macau, India and Oman, season three was the toughest because of the daunting fastforward, roadblock and detour tasks like performing the dragon dance, eating exotic street food, ascending to the Macau Tower and traversing a canyon. That’s why Tisha and Geoff cannot help but also celebrate their own victory.

“It’s true,” confirms Geoff of RP Team’s placement on the show. “We came second and hopefully Pinoys will come first in season four.”

“We were so close to winning,” says Tisha. “(What transpired) was out of our control.”

How did the Hong Kong boys who incurred a four-hour penalty from the “traverse a canyon” challenge take over?

“We got the wrong taxi driver,” shares Geoff. “It took us 36 minutes before reaching the final pitstop.”

“The driver never knew where it was,” adds Tisha.

Besides, the teams waited 10 hours to take their flight from Oman to Thailand. Thus, the four-hour penalty of the HK boys lasted and they caught up with the two other teams.

“I’m ecstatic,” says Tisha of the results. “I never expected to get ourselves to be this far in the race. We thought finishing fifth was already okay.”

“We were pressured in the beginning of the race,” adds Geoff given the performance of Marc and Rovilson last year. “It was on my mind all the time. But I never knew I would do this (the race) day after day.”

During the race, Tisha and Geoff had arguments which according to Tisha are common among couples. The two, however, assure their fans that “they are still together.”

Asked what are their plans that The Amazing Race Asia 3 is over, Geoff replies, “I will continue doing hosting. But we will see. I can’t really say what to do since Amazing was just a day over.”

“I’m not going back to showbiz,” says Tisha. “I will still do hosting and modeling. I’ll be in Canada next year to resume my studies (dental hygiene) and to take care of my dad.”

Last night, the couple graced the The Amazing Race Asia 3 party at the Centara Grand Hotel, Bangkok. They also received 40-inch Bravia flat TVs, playstations, a trip to Hong Kong, plus $1,000 each.

“It’s life changing,” says Geoff of his Amazing experience, whose game plan was to stay in the race and not to get eliminated early.

What did Tisha learn from the experience?

“That I can really do what I set on my mind,” she replies.


SOURCE: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=417128

Geoff was especially friendly and very gracious
Written by Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo(stella-arnaldo.blogspot.com)
THURSDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 2008 23:35

I’VE been enjoying The Amazing Race Asia these past few weeks. I never used to watch the original US show until the Asian version was first aired three years ago. v I’ve found the last few episodes especially super fun because I never expected the Philippine team to end up in the finals again. The two contestants,


Tisha Silang and Geoff Rodriguez, may not technically be Filipinos by citizenship, but have managed to represent the Philippines quite well. Yes, despite the sometimes-annoying behavior of Geoff, which makes me want to scream at the TV sometimes to tell Tisha to lose him. Hahaha. That’s reality TV for you. (Actually, when I met the couple at the launch of Dinelli, a new deli on Timog Avenue on Tuesday, they were as sweet as can be. Geoff was especially friendly and very gracious. Both were extremely tight-lipped about who won the race, but appeared delighted to accept our good wishes just the same. By the time you read this, the season finale would have already been shown and I am hoping the pair actually did win.)

I find this season particularly interesting because the challenges have really been extremely difficult and lengthy (like the trip through India) that, as a viewer, even I feel exhausted just watching all the teams go through their paces and collapse from sheer physical and mental fatigue.


SOURCE: http://businessmirror.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2256:something-like-life-when-did-we-become-afraid&catid=32:life&Itemid=68

Look at bright side, team ph's graph has been continuing to rise since season 1; from 9th to 3rd to 2nd and the only way it can rise next season is if team ph wins!

Congrats geoff n tisha.....

we are going to miss u.........

SOURCE:
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/you/super/view/20081121-173628/One-heckhack-of-a-ride

One heck/hack of a ride

By James Gabrillo
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Last updated 20:22:00 11/21/2008

BANGKOK,
Thailand—Geoff Rodriguez and Tisha Silang are exhausted. It’s four in
the afternoon and the couple just arrived in the city after missing
their flight last night.

“Oh my God” were the first words out of
Tisha’s mouth when she entered the hotel room where I was waiting for
them. Geoff looked like he just wanted to lie down on the bed.

“When
we finally stepped inside this hotel, we were expecting to see Allan
(Wu, the host),” Tisha says. “And he’d tell us, ‘I’m sorry, you’re the
last team to arrive.’”

I could imagine how stressful it was to
find an airline that could take them here, in time for the finale party
of “The Amazing Race Asia 3” where all the teams reunite and watch the
final episode together.

What an irony that on the very day that
their “Amazing Race” journey would end, they’re still racing—scrambling
to get into the fastest flight, rushing to get a cab, dashing to reach
their destination.

To settle for second

Seven countries,
11 cities, 21,000 kilometers of mad adventures—and for the Philippine
team, the final outcome depended on a Phuket taxi driver.

Unfortunately
for Geoff and Tisha, the cabbie had no idea where he was going to take
them. This tight spot proved to be the most crucial of all as the
couple was left to settle with the second-place badge, finishing behind
best buddies Sam Wu and Vince Chung from Hong Kong.

“Thirty-six
minutes and 11 seconds behind, dude!” Geoff screams with regret. Since
he entered the room, he’s been manic, anxious, all over the place—you
could tell that he’s upset and yet you can’t deny the little glimmer of
excitement in his eyes.

“It hurts that this whole time, people
would come up to us and say, ‘I’m sure you guys won!’” he says. “It
feels bad to have let everyone down.”

Winner takes all

Tisha
shares, “It feels especially—what’s the word?—poignant that we’re
celebrating the finale here in Bangkok, exactly where this whole race
started for us.”

When champs Sam and Vince entered the room
earlier that day, it was the total opposite. Vince’s eyes were red.
This guy didn’t get any sleep, I thought. Yet like his teammate Sam, he
was unusually bouncy.

When I introduced myself, they shook my
hand with a bit of suspicion—naturally wary of the whole journalistic
agenda, I thought. When I told them that I just got an exclusive
screening of the final episode a few seconds before they
entered—meaning I knew that they had won—they breathed a sigh of relief.

“All
this time, the hardest thing has been to hide the fact that we actually
won,” Sam says. “It’s good to finally let it out!” He then resorted to
jumping around the room shouting, “We won! We won!”

Both
attribute their win to a mix of luck and sheer ability. “Luck played so
much. But on the things that we could control—like our tempers—we
handled with the best of our abilities,” recalls Vince, who’s wearing a
pink shirt with the words DELAY NO MORE emblazoned in front. “The other
things, we just relied on prayer.”

“We were confident with our
abilities,” Sam says. “We went in thinking we could win this. But when
it finally happened, we were full of disbelief. I was like, NO WAY!”

Embrace the race

For
third placers Ida Nerina and Tania Khan, it’s about looking back at the
whole experience and realizing that they’ve had the best time. I
chatted with all the other teams and they unanimously pointed out these
two as the ones who had the most fun throughout the race.

“There
is just no point in getting stressed out,” says Tania, a 36-year-old
heiress in Malaysia. She entered the room in a wheelchair, still
recovering from a little accident last weekend when her right foot was
stepped on by a four-inch stiletto worn by “a girl who had too much
tequila.”

She’s also very much pregnant. “I actually didn’t know
that I was two months pregnant when I did the race—when I
bungee-jumped, ate bugs, and perspired on the desert. We wanted a
complete, fulfilling, fascinating, crazy experience—and hell yeah we
got that!”

Her best friend Ida, a popular actress, seconds her
thought. “We went to the race expecting the best and the worst,
expecting to enjoy and cry. We wanted to appreciate everything that the
race would put us through and that’s the reason why we had such a
bubbly disposition.”

Valuing it all

“People ask us what
we learned from this race and it’s not just one thing,” Ida says. “It’s
a plethora of things that make up who we are now.”

“For the
entirety of my life, I made decisions based on what my family and my
husband would think,” Tania beams. “This race I did for myself.”

These
insights ring true for our local team: “I can’t believe some of the
things that I was able to do,” says Tisha. “I’m not an extreme sports
person. I’m not athletic. But I discovered that I just have to be
determined. That will carry on with me in the years to come.”

On
the other hand, Geoff sees the whole experience as something that has
made him surer of his values. “People may have said bad things about
the way I played the game,” he says. “But I never said anything bad
about anyone. What they saw was the real me. If they can’t live with
that, then sorry. I sleep each night knowing I’ve been true to myself
from start to end.

Of detours and pit stops

For the
winning team, it was about rousing the competitive spirit and looking
deeper at one’s self: “It was an adventure and a competition. Two
things I like the most,” Vince says. “It’s a package nothing like
anything in this world.”

“This, for me, was about understanding
myself. To dig in and know what I’m made of,” Sam says. “I’m not Vince.
I’m not sporty. I’ve never gone bungee jumping. I’ve never gotten a
tattoo. The race pushed me to go beyond.”

Surely, “Amazing Race”
is much bigger than any of these people. It’s a race made up of
complexities, a zest for culture, and love for life. But more than
that, it’s a race that forces you to look at yourself and the way you
treat others—no matter if they’re your best friend or your partner or a
complete stranger from a foreign country.

“What’s a bigger
mirror than a television series broadcast to millions of viewers?”
Tisha says, hitting the target. “Hey, what’s really more important now
is figuring out what we do next after this whole thing wraps up
tonight.”

It is a few minutes before the finale party as I type this, and I think to myself, yes, the race is still on.

NEXT
WEEK: Catch the full interviews of Super with the top three teams plus
full coverage of “The Amazing Race Asia 3” finale party in Thailand.