Team Overview for Amazing Race Asia 2

Amazing Race Asia 2 is basically The Amazing Race, minus Jerry Bruckheimer, minus the mildly part of the "midly retarded host", plus lots and lots of rice. But it's fun anyway since we all know Asians have been travelling around the globe for far longer than anybody else. As proof, the first person who circumnavigated the globe was not even Magellan, but Enrique de Malacca, probably as his private domestic helper. Anyway I'm watching Season two, and here's a quick overview of the remaining teams at the moment of writing (plus one team that already got eliminated, but I like them enough to include them)

Dancing Mums - Ann and Diane (Malaysia)

Ever get that feeling about somebody that just makes you go "what an asshole" even without ever seeing that person doing anything worthy of that remark? This team is kinda like that, but they deserve it because every week they find something to do that pisses everybody off. If they're not busy winning the leg of the race for that week, they're up and attem in shaming everybody related to them. "We are also looking forward to leaving our husbands and children for a month to win the race," Anna says in a half jesting, half serious manner. Bangup job, Ann, I'm sure your husband and kids have the same thoughts as well.

Odds they will kill each other before the race ends: 10%

Sisters - Pamela and Vanessa (Malaysia)

And I quote form the ARA website: Yes, both Malaysians realize that there is a lot riding on them to perform well, since the winners of the inaugural The Amazing Race Asia were Malaysian and also an all female team! Yeah. These two are probably one of the best reasons I watch the show. Every night I pray some sort of roadblock will force them to makeout or something. Yes, well, you'll never know. Seeing the rudimentary elements of English break down during their arguments is wellworth watching too, but that's kinda like saying you like watching porn for the plot twists. I'd still cheer for these two.

Married - Henry and Terry (Philippines)

Typical couple. Retired serviceman and native bride from hell. The guy is a navy man who underwent intense navy training, 10 years of hard service to his country in the Navy. He's built like a rock, trained for the worst - at least the worst anticipated problems in the Navy. It took only something like the biblically proportioned moving force of the moving mouth of the Filipina to turn him into a weeping pile of crumbs from his former glorious self. Pentagon officials may want to take this into consideration for their new weapons of mass destruction project. And if there's a moral lesson to be learned from this show, I'm pretty sure it's somewhere around these two.

Buddies - Marc and Rovilson (Philippines)

Let me start by asking this question: Who in their right mind would name their kid with a name that sounds like something that's better placed on the label of a medicine bottle? And who is this Rovilson guy anyway? An indonesian friend of mine asked me if he was a big celebrity here. Everybody else claims so, even though they don't really know where he's appeared before. People just kinda accepted him in complacency the same way they accepted formalin in fruits. I don't know who the hell he is, period. Anyway these guys are always leading, which is kind of okay, if you placed a bet on them or something. Otherwise it's making the show somewhat boring. Whenver there's a challenge, theyd do it in a this-is-how-its-done manner, and then leave the rest to the other teams to show how mildly-retarded people would go about the challenge.

Siblings - Daichi and Sawaka (Japan)

Incest is wincest. Kidding. I've never really seen native Japanese speaking english so well. I swear there's a pair of dubbers somehere outside the cameraview doing the talking for them. Actually they got elminated already. Sawaka is somewhat cute and sings quite well. Daichi is hmm, kinda like a douchebag - so that kinda balances it out. I'm not even sure why I included them here, but hey, JAPAN. I was half expecting Daichi to take out a magical pen at some point of the race and transform into a giant metallic dude wearing tights, always lowbatt and yelling "Utoraabeeeeemu". Sorry. Moving on...

Childhood friends - Paula and Natasha (Thailand)

I actually originally thought these two were from Australia or something, because they looked like anything but Thai. I've been around thai people. They don't look like these two - and they don't speak as much english either, unless "wa-eh-bahoo" is an acceptable english pronunciation of "waterbaloon". I'd complain about import players but I remember we have a black import in our teams too so I guess it's kind of okay. Next time though I'd like the Thai teams to be a bit more representative of their country. Like we have mail-order brides, they can have hookers. I'm not saying these two are hookers. I'm just saying there's a lot of them in Thailand.

GYM Buddies - Collin and Adrian (Singapore)

What the hell is gymbuddies anyway? More than friends, less than lovers, tied together by spotting and showers? I'm not really sure, and I'd rather not think about it too much. I also kinda feel sorry for these guys, right now and for the past six legs their sole objective is to catch up to Marc and Rovilson. Want to see a geniune look of a pissed Singaporean? Look at their faces everytime the finish second at ever leg. I got nothing more to say about these guys, since I find them boring. If not for their funky Russ Troll haircuts I probably wouldnt even have noticed. As a sidenote, a friend of mine says, "If ever Singapore decides to legalize samesex marriage, they know where to look for models."