TARA 3 in the Media

Two teams from India...........Yahoo.........

Two teams from India...........Yahoo.........

oh, i can't wait..

Ida Nerina is representing Malaysia? thats really unexpected..

ida nerina??
wow!

hope MALAYSIA win!!!!
go ida nerina!!!

wow... i can't wait to watch TARA 3!!

I'm so excited now!

OMG!!!!

all are mactors!!! Only team Singapore is not mactor.....LOL

Good luck ladies....no matter how far they go.....I still proud of them.....

I have updated my blogs and I talked about the 10 teams. If you want to read, go to www.jonlover.blogspot.com

visit my blog too...

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i really can't wait..

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20080824-83932.html

The Amazing Race Asia continues
by CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo
Tuesday, September 9, 2008

It’s that time of the year again! The Amazing Race Asia is definitely on. An early teaser showed the familiar clue box on top of a sky-high rock formation, host Allan Wu rock successfully climbing up to it, and declaring Season 3 as “the toughest race ever.” To stir up enough excitement for the September 11 premiere on AXN Asia, we’re now being treated to promotional spots powered by a ten-team stream of adrenaline rushes in the form of do-or-die scenarios.
Just like in the past TARA seasons, this year’s teams are made up, expectedly, of a handful of beauty queens and a lot of media personalities. Thailand has two teams this year. This season’s tag-team beauties are Natalie & Pailin, with the latter being Miss Universe 2005 (representing Canada) and the former being her runner-up (representing Thailand). The other Thai team, however, doesn’t do so badly in the looks department either. Best buds Mai & Oliver are both models, although Mai’s making a name for herself in acting too.
India also has two teams competing, both with a touch of showbiz. There’s Neena & Amit. A former flight attendant, Nina’s a model and artist, while her cousin Amit is in real estate. Their relationship is more like brother and sister, so we can expect a fair share of family bickering. And speaking of family bickering, we can also expect some of that from the other Indian team, Niroo & Kapil, who are father and son respectively. Niroo is an actor-slash-director, while Kapil is an actor-slash-human-resources-executive. Kapil admits to having a short fuse, which he intends to keep under control as he races around the world with his always-in-control dad.
Representing Hong Kong are Sam & Vince. A university lecturer, Sam is apparently a genius with words, ranking as one of the top players in the online word game Prolific. Vince, on the other hand, is a primary school teacher turned comedian and host. The two are best friends, and with one of them a funny man, I’m pretty sure we’re in for some laughs.
William & Isaac are brothers from Korea. William is a sports television host, while Isaac is a sports agent who claims to be the biggest fan of The Amazing Race Asia. This is the first time a Korean team is joining, so I’m looking forward to what the brothers are going to bring to the table.
Making up the first half of Team Malaysia are Ida & Tania. Ida, an actress, and Tania, a property developer, are hot and successful power women who are obviously in the prime of their lives. Both are well traveled but neither has backpacked before, so it would be interesting to see how they will manage themselves as they run around the world in the toughest race ever. Also representing Malaysia are brother and sister Henry & Bernie. Older sibling Bernie is a chef, while Bernie is a TV host and actress who hosted Project Runway Malaysia last year.
Running for Singapore are long-time friends A.D. & Fuzzie. A.D. is a freelance writer-slash-director, while Fuzzie is an English teacher. What makes this team interesting is that they’re going to rely more on brain than brawn, being that they’re perhaps the most “un-physically fit” team, not just this season, but ever. In fact, Fuzzie had to lose some weight to prepare for the race. They’re undeniably this year’s underdog team, so they’ve got my second vote.
However, my real vote, as always, goes to Team Philippines, this time made up of sweethearts Geoff & Tisha, who are both media personalities. Geoff Rodriguez, a model, was a one-time actor, while Tisha had her fair share of media buzz when she had to relinquish her Bb. Pilipinas crown in 1998 because of nationality issues, and then, later, when she became the girlfriend of Paolo Bediones. Both are buff as hell, and they seem to have a steady and strong relationship that could help propel them to the finish line.
Let the race—and the wearing of funky nationalistic Pinoy shirts—begin!

tara 3 tv promo, well done, it's really amazing

nice vid

At Large
Over-the-top reality



By Rina Jimenez-David
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:18:00 09/14/2008

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MANILA, Philippines—Reality shows rarely appeal to me, for on the whole I find them boring (that’s why we watch TV entertainment shows, after all, to escape from our boring “real” lives). But I make exceptions of shows that are over-the-top in concept and execution, involving high-strung folk engaged in endless intrigue and drama.

An old favorite and perennial Emmy award winner is “Amazing Race,” but lately, especially after its second season, I’ve found that the “Asian” version holds more appeal. Apart from the fact that there are Filipino racers, thereby hiking up the interest factor, I find it refreshing to “see” the world, or at least the destinations where the racers are assigned, through Asian eyes. One of the things which riled me while watching the original US version was watching racers, most of whom come from the United States, encounter the Third World and pass judgment on the people, places, scents and food they were meeting for the first time. It struck me as simply astonishing that in this globalized world, some folk could still be so sheltered and parochial as to be gobsmacked by poverty, squalor, flies, near-naked children and unfamiliar food. Why join The Amazing Race if not to see the world and all its splendors?

With many of its racers themselves coming from the Third World—save maybe for Japanese, Singaporeans and Koreans—The Amazing Race Asia (TARA) shows a more harmonious meeting between the racers and the places they are visiting. There is less “exoticizing” of poverty and less condescension from the racers, though this isn’t always the case.

During the inaugural episode of the third season of TARA, the first challenge was to find a food stall in a public market in Bangkok and there each team was expected to finish a bowl filled with, uhhmm, exotic ingredients, like fried beetles, locusts and assorted insects. I thought that since the racers were all Asian, or married to Asians, or living in Asia, everyone would find this challenge a piece of cake. Asians, after all, are known for “eating everything,” and possessing iron stomachs.

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BUT I guess the younger generation has truly been “Westernized” not just in dress and manner but in their diet as well, as many teams couldn’t seem to get around to biting into the crisp shells and wriggly antennae and, once ingested, keep them down.

My own children, who are both young adults, couldn’t help exclaiming “yeecchh!” with each mouthful of critters. When I told them how much I loved eating camaru, the field locusts that are caught in nets spread over rice fields and then prepared adobo-style, they looked at me like I was Hannibal Lecter.

Another sort of “culture clash” surfaced in the next challenge which involved teams cleaning up dirty tourist buses. A team from Malaysia, composed of an actress and a “socialite-heiress,” was particularly annoying. At one point, the socialite was mopping the bus with a vengeance and uttering under her breath: “My maid would be so proud of me!” Noblesse oblige, indeed.

It’s a point of pride among Filipino viewers that the Philippine team, former beauty queen Tisha Silang and her boyfriend Geoff Rodriguez, placed second at the end of the episode after a well-fought race that they played with integrity. This, after the local team in the last season: Marc Nelson and Rovilson Fernandez, consistently ended up in first place in every episode (though they finished third overall) in the last season, winning over new fans.

This year’s version is said to be the most grueling race ever, and I for one look forward to many exciting shows and amusing confrontations.

oh wow! Ms Rina Jimenez-David is also a TARA fan! cool!

very nice review by ms. Rina Jimenez

La la la, Benj and Sio-Mai know the writer?

“Tisha is the most competitive girl I know. That’s probably why we
gel together. We push each other to greater heights,” Geoff admits.


Says Tisha, “What I love most about Geoff is that he can drive me to do things I never thought I could accomplish!”


Even their courtship was a competition. “What attracted me first to Tisha was the fact that she didn’t like me,” Geoff explains.

Complete opposites, Tisha and Geoff balance each other. Hopefully, that would work to their favor.


“Tisha doesn’t get mad. I am the one that’s always mad and stressed. She has to worry about calming me down,” Geoff confesses.

Gearing Up For The Race

Tisha believes that it would take an equal balance between physical,
emotional, and mental strength to win the Amazing Race. It is also a
plus that she is happiest under the sun, as most of the challenges are
outdoors.


“I took a crash course on driving a manual car and I got a LASIK eye surgery,” she says as last-minute preparations.

READ HERE IN FULL: http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Health%20And%20Family&p=49&type=2&sec=41&aid=2008100655