Eliminated

No surprises here, they were so far behind!

Detour is a choice between 2 tasks...

Ann nudged Diane and suggested to her team mate that they should choose "blow" since "they are girls and they should be better". Later the girls chose Bow instead. Thank goodness they chose "Bow", they would be so disappointed with "Blow".

Good riddance

After finding out that they will be flying to Taiwan, Nathan said he could eat some "Thai food" and meet some "Thai people" in Taiwan. What an idiot. Thank goodness they got eliminated.

Bye bye Goths

In the latest episode of the Amazing Race Season 12, Kynt & Vyxsin got eliminated. They came in last in the previous episode so they had to incur a new game penalty called the "speed bump." The "speed bump" is another additional task which only the last team in the previous round had to perform. Honestly, they did pretty well in that task and managed to catch with the Jennifer & Nathan. Both teams (the Goths and Jennifer & Nathan) raced to the next clue where a U-turn lied ahead. This is another new game concept, where a team can force another team to back and perform the task of the detour. The Goths reached the U-turn first and decided to use the U-turn against Nicolas and Donald who might have already completed the race! OK, the Goths may not have known this but their closest competitors at that time was Jennifer & Nathan - they met each other in one of the tasks (the flower garland making task). Common sense would dictate that you need to get rid of the closest competitor to you at that point in time. I am sure if Jennifer & Nathan reached the U-turn first, they would have used that against the Goths. Actually, Jen & Nathan seem very anxious to reach there first. I would! Alas, in the race to the pit stop at Mumbai, Jen & Nathan reached there before the Goths.

I like the Goths, they were entertaining but played their cards wrongly. Maybe too much sun and make up, caused Kynt to make a really stupid decision.

Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese?

Travel channel "Trave & Living" aired a reality series called "Kelly Osbourne turning Japanese". This series showed the daughter of rocker Ozzy Osbourne living in Japan - trying very hard to adapt to the Japanese culture and ways.

Suffice to say, I was quite put off by her. She is fat, ugly, pampered and has no or little respect for her host country. I think they should call this series "Kelly Osbourne turning your stomach." Things people to do win TV ratings.

Did I mention she is ugly? Osbourne is the ugly one in the middle.

Miss World 2007

I watched some of the telecast of the Miss World 2007 on Saturday. I watched the dance performance which looked rather like an acrobatics and gymnastics combined together rather a pure ballet routine. We all know how good China is in gymnastics.

Congratulations to Ms Zhang Zilin. For the first time a Chinese girl has won a international beauty contest title. Did she deserve to win? Well, she is certainly physically attractive and very tall indeed. For her customary interview, she was asked to tell something about herself in 40 seconds. She was saying if she becomes Miss World she can be a link to China and blah blah...something about Beijing Olympics blah, blah...

It really sounded like she was campaigning for herself and China in halting English. But alas she won the title. Not that it matters that the event was held in China. Not that it matters that next year China will be holding the 2008 Olympics.

We have read about fake branded goods, fake software, even fake meat from China. What kind of scandal can we expect to spin off from this event? Fake boobs (I think if this were true then she should get her money back), fake face - painted with lead paint, etc. I wonder if they will recall her if this were true.

Ukulele - I am hooked!

I just bought a Ukulele from eBay . It arrived last week. It is an Oscar Schmidt OU5 Deluxe concert size ukulele. It is very nice and absolutely in mint condition. The tuning was a bit off so I. tuned it to the standard GCEA tuning. I think I must have tuned it an entire octave too low. The strings were loose and the ukulele sounded quite bad. A day later I tried tightening the tuners again and tuned it correctly, finally! Believe me it sounded really really good. It is true what they say about ukulele, it is a lot easier to play than a guitar. I was able to come up with some tunes via strumming and following some simple chord progression. The standard chord progression I played was C, F and G7. It did not sound that bad.

Later.