Bahay ni Kuya will open its door once again for the newest housemates of the third season on Sunday, October 4. Seven months ago before this Double Up came out, I lined up for the audition (super-related post: World Peace series). That time, it’s a choice between shifting career or finishing graduate studies. Direk Dyogi rejected me as a housemate (wahaha) while the Department of Computer Science accepted me as a full time graduate student.

Meanwhile, last week, I was interviewed by Qtube, a Q Channel 11 show that features the hippest online. Not because I’ve developed a web application from our university laboratories but that’s for my Facebuko site, for being a popular tambayan of Pinoys.

Popularity – I’ve dreamed of It inside the Big Brother’s house. I hoped for a fame that could influence a lot of Filipinos to do things for the country. I like to be an advocate heard more than to be an actor applauded.

And Facebuko has given me that chance. Yes, fame – but apart from it, a voice to a crowd. Few of its posts were relevant to social issues such as the upcoming 2010 elections. Someone has just interpreted my Info Ad Nakikita, a satirical ripoff of Hinahanap-hanap Kita to info commercials of presidentiables. We’re hoping that this gets to a larger audience. Also, recently, I’ve pushed the jokes aside and published a list of how to help Ondoy victims. Some readers reposted the list in their blogs or linked back to through their tweets. Facebuko has indeed have a reach and we use this to reach out in a way.

I’m experiencing something not as big as Big Brother but I’m already contended. Sabi nga nila, kung hindi uukol, hindi bubukol. Pero pwede rin pa lang bubuko.

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