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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Update here: Why Did I Follow Lola Techie Again?
I used to be a fan of Lola Techie on her Plurk right after the Bayantel ad has aired on ABS-CBN shows. I was pretty sure that time it was purely promotional and the grandmother figure is just a fiction. Yet, I still decided to follow her at least in Plurk to feel how good the portrayer is in building the Lola Techie character.

Her first pokes are enjoyable. The same bitter-lola comic was still there while she’s keep on bashing her used-to-be-favorite grandson, JR. But the next plurks become boring as she keeps on asking what’s on our lunch or dinner (so her new grandsons and granddaughters would replurk back) and her continuous segue on ABS-CBN shows. I really don’t need ‘em because I really do watch ‘em.

More reasons why I unfollowed her -

• I’m getting tired of muting her plurks when her new grandsons and granddaughters are still on the hype. Lola Techie is receiving 50 replies at average.
• She’s taking Facebook quizzes and applications and posting it on plurk! I’m keeping those type of statuses away from my news feed. And there you go! She’s now spamming my Plurk.
• The trend is that she might have her own blogger event! Knowing her followers are mostly Pinoy bloggers.
• And since Lola Techie is an imagination, I hope her creator should have been packaging her into more techie person. The reason I enjoyed Inday, ang Sosyal na Katulong, is that she and her manager are successful in leaving the audience with their nose bleeding. It should have been more Lola Techie if she had plurked that she’s able to secure a wireless router, to remove a virus from a computer, to use the Konami code and some other geeks stuff. Sana nilubos-lubos na nila.

Yet, I wish I can meet the superstar in person. Maybe in Coffee Bean, while she’s wirelessly surfing. But it might not happen. The diva is into wired DSL connection.

P.S.

Lola Techie,

Please add me in your mafia.

Your prodigal grandson,
Don Nazty.

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Another news item that has spun off from Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton boxing fight is the recommendation of Department of Health and Malacanan to delay Pacman’s homecoming and for the whole team to self-quarantine due to possible A(H1N1) flu human-to-human transmission.

This was also picked up by some spotlight-stealer congressmen and senators to impose self-quarantine of officials that flew to Las Vegas to catch the Battle of the East and the West live. Self-quarantine will last for at least 5 consecutive days.

*Achoo* Ang O.A. Ok. It is given that they are possibly the next carriers of the flu virus. But then again, like the clean water of La Mesa watershed flowing to Manila downstreams and channels, it becomes contaminated at the end. What I mean is that even when they come clean out of their quarantine boxes, from that place to NAIA, how many people Manny Pacquiao and his team would be allowed to come close to the world’s greatest boxer? There would be a lot of interactions and possible human-to-human transmission. Pacquiao may not have it but the fans may carry the flu virus.

Everyone’s being thermal scanned. Even President Arroyo’s temperature was captured recently. So what makes the other passengers boarding to Manila exempted from self-quarantine and their thermal scan results simply suffice? If Team Manny Pacquiao fails and rings the alarm, then postpone Lito Atienza’s and General Santos’ salubong. Want another OA option? Close NAIA.

While the fight took only less than 7 minutes, others is continuing the second round with more rounds of brawls and actions in the form of noisy (less of a sound) issues and controversies. And I’m guessing the network that will exclusively cover the next fight, presidentiables convincing Manny as running mate, and Manny’s tax are coming as the next rounds.

Pauwiin na si Manny! Spread balato minus the virus.

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Martin Nievera’s public apology for his different and untraditional rendition of Lupang Hinirang during the recently concluded and much celebrated Manny Pacquiao – Ricky Hatton boxing fight is not necessary. Or at least, I don’t oblige the Concert King to say sorry to me about his performance.

After ABS-CBN 2 announced that Pacman knocked down Hitman just before the second round ended, I was eager to catch GMA 7 delayed broadcast as I anticipated Martin singing our national anthem believing the premier singer would not screw up. (Of course, WWE superstar Batista escorting Pacquiao also excited me.) Blame the poor streaming of television signals that it appears he’s singing out of sync with the tempo. I was only unease at his latter part of the song where the usual singers belt it to high notes. The next day, it was like that I’m wrong to pre-assume that Martin wouldn’t end up controversial like the past Philippine anthem singers Manny Pacquiao had personally chosen and requested.

We can play Simon Cowell, Ryan Cayabyab and Jose Javier Reyes role in bashing this idol with the singer’s flat notes. However to place legal moves against Martin Nievera is hitting him under the belt. It’s like accusing him that he stood up in front of the whole world and just played (as in laro) the national anthem. He didn’t ask for it. He was humbled that Manny selected him. He actually wanted Filipinos to be proud Pinoys through his song. I didn’t felt like Lupang Hinirang was disgraced. The worse that I wouldn’t take is when someone let’s say a telenovela superstar who only sings novelty songs is chosen to sing Lupang Hinirang.

By the way, I saw at the end credits that the grumpy National Historical Institute approved something in the segment. Is it for the rendition or for the several appearances of Philippine Airlines?

As my final verse, please stop this kind of (c)rap. It was like every Manny’s fight that uncontented spectators jab singers. Don’t let the time happens that no single Pinoy singer is even courageous and courteous enough to sing Lupang Hinirang because no matter how hard and good they try, in th end of the song, it doesn’t even matter. Ano kayang ligaya ng mga nang-aapi? Ang mawalan ng singers ng dahil sa inyo.

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Why did Pinoy Big Brother let the televiewers and supporters of Jon continue voting for him? It’s because the show wanted its audience to witness his forced eviction for (tampered) TV ratings and for them to have their 30 percent share of the text votes Jon has receiving since last week. They could have announced it earlier.

Yet, I welcome the rest of Kuya’s explanation.

Here are my other cents on Jon’s forced eviction:

If viewers will notice, all of the remarks for the remaining housemates delivered by the host Toni Gonzaga pertain to Big Brother as the Kataas-taasang Kagalang-galangang Kuya over housemates. Of course, this is his show. Contestants should succumb to him. So, from that moment, you would know that Jon shall be evicted forcefully. We witnessed how justice is practiced by Kuya and Endemol, the owner of the Big Brother, with their set of house rules as they evict Jon. Rules are rules. They are made to avoid chaos. Forced eviction overrules Jon’s Head of the Household immunity (although HOH was only brought up because of Kuya’s Last Alas or last ace on the second attempt for a face-to-face nomination. We then witnessed how powerful Kuya is over the televiewers.

Bottom line is that Jon has violated several major rules which one of them is influencing the vote of other housemates. But again, as if only the first paragraph of this post was considered, then there would be no flaw on this action. Also to end the show with a louder bang, they should have released the percentage of the votes received by the Final Five which I believe favored Jon. Otherwise, PBB could have think of the easy way out of this mess – Jon received the lowest number of votes. But I guess, it’s not.

Next step for KKK or simply Kuya, he should punish also the remaining Celebrity Big Four for being accomplices of the controversial crime especially for the strong contenders on being Big Winner, Ruben and Gaby, for not being honest on their nomination. They, including the couple Will and Riza, should suffer physically and emotionally to bring out the Big Winner traits in them.

Kuya is right in saying that nomination doesn’t mean the nominated is not loved by the person that nominates. The remaining four just shows how scared they are on what the people outside would think about them. Screw Wendy Valdez and Big Winner Bea Saw on their confrontation after the face-to-face nominations. Perhaps this season’s Final Five have badly foresee that.

It was bad for me to see the last part of the program where voluntary and forced leavers Mcoy, Ethel, Baron and latest evictee Jon imprint their feet on the Celebrity Walk of Fame. They could have been my Big Four. I love rebels for a cause because I am rebel too.

And for the last one rebel standing (for her rights), go for gold, Gaby! GGG!

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