Oh (Pinoy Big) Brother !

I was been on forced hiatus for nearly two months now. "Forced", you ask? This is because my previous web host disappeared without a trace, taking all the pictures and templates with it. Looking for a free webhost without ads and other attached dubious terms and conditions are hard to find nowadays.

Luckily, I have found another web host. But it has a thing attached to it. Everytime you go to this site, a website with advertisements pops out as well. This is better than a big banner ad on the top of the page which destroys the look of your site.

Apologies for the meantime if that pop-out website annoys you. Lesson learned: There is nothing such as a free lunch. You want to have a site on the net? Then you have to pay it. I am now saving money to buy my own webspace and buy my own domain name. Hopefully, I could establish a www.projectmarooned.com. Ha! If wishing could make me so.

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Everyone in my family is hooked into watching Pinoy Big Brother. Even my father, who is the type who doesn't watch programs with Filipino as the vernacular, is suprisingly addicted to it. I caught my father so many times in the living room, staring blankly at the television set and watching scenes unfold on that program.

I don't have the right to comment anything on the program, mainly because, I don't have the luxury to watch it. My work begins at 10:00 pm, and I have to leave the house by 8:00pm or surely will be late. I never watched any episodes and the only thing I know about it is one of the contestants was a FHM cover girl.

Don't get me wrong, I know how Big Brother, per se, operates. I am familiar with how it works... but that is the Big Brother in U.K. Now, a Filipino Big Brother? And ABS-CBN calling the shots? Then that will surely be different.

Anyway, one thing for sure, Filipinos are hooked into it. Everyone is thrilled about it (well, of course, except GMA 7 and their teleserye that coincides with it, I gather that the PBB ratings are eating them alive).

Pinoy Big Brother is everywhere. On TV, on magazines, even the neighborhood manangs now gossip about them instead of gossiping about their usual neighborhood targets. Everywhere I go, I always here the Pinoy Big Brother theme by the band Orange and Lemons. I wont be surprised if I hear a disco remix of it.

Now, everyone is into it except me, mainly because of my ignorance about it. Now can anyone tell me what's going on?!