as we don’t have the privilege of cable television at home, i have to download things i watch. one of these is amazing race. ‘been watching the american version before, and of course when the asian version came out, i added it to my download list.
nothing much to say about the first asian race as in the first two eliminations, both 2 filipino teams were booted out. in the second race, (which i just finished seeing this morning) it’s more exciting because a filipino team (mark and rovilson) really showed big chance of winning. if i’m not mistaken, they won 8 out of 12 pitstops (that’s 2/3 of all), of which seven are consecutive, and never came in worse than 2nd save for the last race. unfortunately, the last challenge was badly done by rovilson, which ultimately ended their chance of winning.
although their celebrity presence is all throughout the show, like they seem to have scripts when reaching the pitstops, a lot of times they talk to the camera or they wore some kind of distinctive clothing prepared for the race, it was very nice of them to be proud of the philippines, carrying the flag until the end despite their clear knowledge that they ended 3rd.
and having said that, being proud of our country is one of the most thing we lack exercising; and at the moment, the last thing we could logically do.
