Ah. Episode 6. Shows how much more sponsors are involved. This time its Caltex. They not only need to refill using Caltex petrol, but to also claim a clue from them. This guarantees that Caltex has like 6 minutes of airtime. That’s at least 12 times more from a normal commercial. Now lets wait for a Bintan Resort pit stop in Singapore and a task involving Nokia phone – probably to call someone, or to receive MMS of the next clue.

Is this enough Caltex airtime?

Like I said earlier, it pays to follow the rules. Tsk tsk. Andy, it was pretty entertaining to watch how you try to handle a policeman the “Asian” way. Too bad we didn’t have to watch you work/beg your way to pay for that fine, cos that would have been real entertaining. But unfortunately the penalty works for the beginning of the next leg. Looking at how almost every episode has some bunching before boarding an airplane/bus/train, that penalty would mean almost nothing. We’ll have to wait till next episode to find out. If the penalty stayed before they were allowed to check into the pit stop, then they would have been out (and my prediction spot on). But alas!

Speed limit says 100km/h not 146km/h

Joe Jer and Zabrina. They are always quite lucky to get ahead in the race. Somehow or rather they manage to catch up and be almost in the lead, thus arriving at 3rd place, once again. They’re the only team who didn’t win any leg of the race, though technically, they did arrive first once. They gotta get their game up if they wanna stay in. And I’d bet Joe Jer must be sulking at home now since they’ve announced her weight on air this episode. Heck, she must be really pissed since she was absent from the Malaysian teams’ advertisement (Andrew, Syeon and Zabrina were in the ad). Who does not yet know she's 61kg?

When we think of New Zealand, what will one of the tasks be? Well, duh… of course it will be bungee jumping! It wont be NZ without one. Its just too cliché to have bungee jumping as one of the tasks. All teams wanting to get on TAR or TARA should prepare to bungee jump at least once. The only surprise comes if they’re in NZ and there are NO bungee jumps. Bungee jumping in New Zealand. How could they NOT do it?

So, anyway, congrats to Beef and Beauty. Luckily beef is wearing more clothes these days, and make him seem more tolerable, though beauty is talking way way more than she did before. Its almost on the verge of being irritating. And to the Singaporean girls, you know your own mistake – just not pushing yourselves enough to win the race. No more determination. The face of defeat. They knew they were out.