Bangkok Post article (Amazing Race)
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TOUJOURS UN SOURIRE POSITIF
BANGKOK POST (THAÏLANDE)
www.bangkokpost.com
PAR KRITTIYA WONGTAVAVIMARN
Date de publication: 20 FEB 2008
“Oh gosh! It's so much fun here”, Paula Taylor a déclaré. elle sourit,Elle rit, elle a posé pour les caméras. Il a été 8 h, à l'Indochine à Singapour, où la saison amazing race asia 2 partie finale a eu lieu jeudi dernier, et Taylor a été de voeux et des caresses des amis et des membres des médias locaux et internationaux.
“En fait, je suis une personne très timide,vous savez,surtout quand je suis devant une foule, mais je m'amuse ici avec tout un groupe d'amis proches de The Amazing Race. Je pense que nous avons formé une spéciale,amazing obligataires. Oh!…Je suis si heureux!”
Taylor could not achieve her dream of winning the race, but when it comes to a positive, can-do attitude and, Bien sûr, her signature happy, sunny smile, perhaps fans of this reality competition series will agree that this 24-years old is a camp from the first leg of the race to the final pit stop, teams were thrown into challenge that targeted their deepest fears-from traversing high towers, 80 floors above the ground and bungee jumping, to driving for hours through strange cities.
During the various nerve-racking demand in of the 11 épisode, Taylor and childhood friends Natasha Monks displayed resilience, optimism and will power.
Taylor showed Asian viewers that she was a racer with joie de vivre, and she maintained an upbeat light-hearted approach to reaching the pit stop at each leg of the race.
The race she says was not any different from her life, she deals with roadblocks along the way positively and patiently.
“I’m genuinely a happy person. I like having fun and I’m just happy about everything”, said the anglo-thai racer, who was raised in Australia and who finished fifth in the race. “If I have a bad moment, the best way out of it is to brush it off, and that makes me stronger so i try to be positive all the time and smile a lot, it return people smile back and that helps me stay positive therefore making life much easier.”
In the past six years, Taylor has been one of Thailand’s most recognizable faces. An accomplished veejay for channel [Dans] Thailand and
presenter for renowned brands like lays,canon and singha. Taylor has graced the covers of hundreds of magazines, and has acted in many television programmers and movies, including the thai romantic comedy ruk jung (Mémoire), in which she co-starred with Ratcphoom “film” Tokongsup.
With a wide-ranging career in the entertainment world, Taylor,who has also won seventeen magazine’s teen choice awards for five consecutive years, has proved that her abilities go far beyond just charm and a pretty face. She is like a chameleon, and the enjoyment she derives from her career from her passion to see the world, dit-elle.
“I love traveling, meeting new people and learning new languages and cultures. Now I’m trying to take baby steps, expanding my horizons, both personal and career-wise” dit-elle. “Time passes so quickly and there are so many things to do in this world. I want to make each minute count and be happy every minute doing the thing i love.”
Her career started almost by accident, dit-elle. Taylor lived a “normal life” in Australia until as a 13-year old she visited Thailand for a holiday and was spotted by a modeling agency. Though she appeared in a
few TV commercials, the star however had no chance to shine-until she
was 18-year old and became a commercials model in the Philippines, Hongkong, SINGAPOUR, Taiwan an China, she achieved local recognition when she acted in the Thai romantic comedy film sex phone and the lonely wave, with Kavee Tanjararak, known to his fans as beam from the pop band D2B.
“I never knew i could actually make a career out of it, I was just an ordinary girl-going to school, travaillant à temps partiel dans un restaurant de ma mère et à traîner avec des amis. I didn’t grow up of such glamor but now i can’t imagine myself doing anything else, it’s just so right to me”, said Taylor.
“So far the entertainment path has been really good to me, it gives me independence, experience, and opportunity and at the same time, wow, I can pay my bills!” Elle rit.
Rather than talent and character, the entertainment industry is in arguably associated with appearance, social status and even education. At the beginning of her full-time career in the industry six year ago, Taylor was held in contempt for finishing only high school and she has no plan to study further.
Her reply to this criticism is simple:”I believe that we can choose our own path. I respect other people’s opinion but it’s not the path that i would choose for myself not now though” dit-elle.
“Having a diploma is quite a big thing here in Thailand and in other Asian countries and it’s right, it’s a to big thing. But I know so many people who got degrees in marketing or medicine, but ended up being artists. I think knowing what you want to do in life is more important than getting a degrees. One day I would love to go back to school and just take some intensive courses-things I really need to know, not thing I’m forced to do. I simply love to be true to myself and to do what I enjoy.” she said.
À ce jour,, her highest achievement and greatest gratification has been amazing race asia 2, and at the moment she is busy traveling around southeast asia to promote the program, Taylor. However she said that she never sets career goals for herself.
“I just like to work and travel and never had I expected that I would be famous. En fait, I just work to survive day by day. I don’t force myself to work, though some people have a goal that they to do two or three series a year but i don’t because I don’t want to put pressure on myself to accept any job or to make myself doing something. I like to pick my own path, my own decision.”
“Sometimes money isn’t worth it but peace of mind is a worthy aim. So I have to be picky sometimes for my peace of mind. I need to recharge myself and make time for friends and family. You can’t make the whole world happy but most importantly, you have to make yourself happy” dit-elle.
And the charming racer must have been truly happy at the finale party, where she didn’t stop smiling and chatting with people. “Oh I really loved the race-it was amazing fun! It was the most amazing experience of my life and I enjoyed every minute of it. It’s something that I wouldn’t hesitate at all to do again. I’m thinking of cutting my hair, changing my hair color and changing my name. And I’II enter again!” Elle rit.
