The Amazing Race Asia 2

The second season of The Amazing Race Asia or TARA is back!! Yayyy!!! You can bet I'll be glued to this show premiering in November on Astro's AXN. I was rooting for the 2 gutsy Malaysian girls, Zabrina and Joe Jer so I was indeed happy for them being the inaugural winner!! Malaysia Boleh...

There are 2 teams from Malaysia this time around, both are women powered! Girls rule... hehehe!! The first team is an all sister team, Pamela and Vanessa... the sisters of Akademi Fantasia 1 winner, Vince. They call themselves 'The Strong Chongs!'. The next team comprises of two dancing moms, Ann and Diane.

I enjoyed the first season so much, loved the challenges, the twist, drama, the bickering between the teams. My favourite besides the winning Malaysian girls were definitely the comedic duo of Howard and Sahran! The not-so-liked couple has to be Andy and Laura... grrrr...

I'll be supporting both Malaysian teams but they're not my favourites yet. As the show progresses, then I'll be able to decide then:) Look out for the 2 male models from the Philippines! A majority of the contestants are celebrities... eye candy maybe? Let's hope not.

Updates:
*Premieres on 22 Nov at 9pm!
1st leg - Singapore (cross over one building to another, 181m high) & Philippines (challenge was to eat 8 Balut eggs!)

• Pamela & Vanessa, The Strong Chongs from Malaysia won the 1st Pit stop! Malaysia Boleh:)
• Rovilson & Mark, from the Philippines in 2nd place
• Ann & Diane, Dancing Moms from Malaysia in 3rd place:)

Phillipines
2nd Pit stop

• Rovilson & Mark in 1st place
• Paula Taylor & Natasha Monks, Thailand in 2nd place
• Ann & Diane, Malaysia in 3rd place
• Pam & Van, Malaysia in 4th place
• Edwin & Monica Lo, Hong Kong was the 1st team to be eliminated!

Hong Kong & New Zealand
3rd Pit stop

• Rovilson & Mark, 1st place
• Team Singapore, 2nd
• Ann & Diane, 3rd
  
• Paula & Natasha, 4th
• Filipino Couple, 5th
• Daichi & Sawaka from Japan, 6th
• Pam & Van, Malaysia in 7th (they lost valuable time because they were involved in a minor accident)
• Sophie & Aurelia, 8th (I pity Aurelia, she's really a sweet girl... she always gets scoldings from her team-mate)
• Kinar & Brett from Indonesia were eliminated. (They didn't complete their task)

New Zealand leg (Exciting race with many interesting places)
4th Pit stop

• Rovilson & Mark, 1st place
• Team Singapore, 2nd
• Paula & Natasha, 3rd
  
• Ann & Diane, 4th
• Daichi & Sawaka, 5th
• Pam & Vanessa , 6th
• Filipino Fighting Couple, 7th
• Sophie & Aurelia , from Hong Kong were eliminated. They also didn't complete their task.

Japan Leg (No pitstop)
The race continued to South Korea!

South Korea Leg
5th Pit stop

• Rovilson & Mark, 1st
• Collin & Andrew, Singapore - 2nd
  
• Henry & Terri, Philippines - 3rd
• Pam & Van, Malaysia - 4th
• Paula & Natasha, Thailand - 5th
• Ann & Diane, Malaysia - 6th
• Daichi & Sawaka, Japan was the 4th team to be eliminated.

South Korea Leg
6th Pit stop (No elimination)

• Rovilson & Mark, 1st
• Collin & Andrew, Singapore - 2nd
• Pam & Van, Malaysia - 3rd
• Ann & Diane, Malaysia - 4th
• Paula & Natasha, Thailand - 5th
  
• Henry & Terri, Philippines - 6th

Germany & Czech Republic
7th Pit stop (Pre-determined Non Elimination Leg)

• Rovilson & Mark
• Collin & Andrew
• Ann & Diane
• Paula & Natasha
• Pam & Van
• Henry & Terri

Czech Republic
8th Pit stop

• Rovilson & Mark
• Collin & Andrew
• Ann & Diane
• Pam & Van (Van got a bit of amnesia, poor girl! Must be due to the awkward plunge during the 10 metre platform dive)
• Paula & Natasha
• Henry & Terri (5th team to be eliminated)

Hungary
9th Pit stop

• Collin & Andrew
• Rovilson & Mark
• Pam & Van
• Ann & Diane
• Paula & Natasha

Hungary
10th Pit stop

• Collin & Andrew (Won the Fast Forward, skipped all tasks and went directly to the Pit stop)
  
• Rovilson & Mark
• Pam & Van
• Ann & Diane (They were yielded by Rovilson & Mark)
• Paula & Natasha (6th team to be eliminated)

South Africa
11th Pit stop

• Rovilson & Mark
• Collin & Andrew
• Pam & Van
• Ann & Dianne (7th team to be eliminated)

Team Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia made it to the final leg! Hooorraaayyyy :D

Singapore
12th Pit Stop (Final)

• Congratulations to Adrian & Collin from Team Singapore for winning TARA2!
• Kudos to the Malaysian girls, Pamela & Vanessa for taking the 2nd spot :)
• I'm sad for Rovilson & Mark, they stumbled at the final leg... but you guys were definitely entertaining! I'm gonna miss you guys antics.
  

Moral of the story: Learn your flags... you could win USD100,000.000 like Collin and Adrian did!

Thanks everyone for reading my post. It has been an amazing journey with The Amazing Race Asia 2... see you at the next Amazing Race Asia 3!