hi and bye kaysar!

last week, with an overwhelming 82% of all the votes cast, america chose kaysar to return to the big brother house. as julie chen says, it is a "season of surprises." hence, this sudden gimmick of putting evicted people back into the house. oh well.

this is 'big brother 6' and there was a reason why i decided not to join the bandwagon when the show premiered about a month ago. i was a certified 'big brother' addict, having survived the first five seasons. my interest, however, started waning last year.

this interest was once more piqued last week when i started reading about an evicted houseguest making a return, with america voting on which one makes the grand return. and then, this guy, kaysar (a graphic designer from irvine, originally from iraq -- i wonder how much of this factoid caused him to be selected as one of the houseguests this season) was the unanimous choice in almost all of the blogs that i visit every single day.

tonight was the first time this season that i finished an entire episode. it's crazy in that house, i am telling you. it's a house divided, and because of broken promises and lies, the people in the house are fighting each other like crazy. there's no sense of civility in the way they act when they are in front of each other. this is what happens when you get stuck with other strangers for a hundred days without any exposure to the outside world.

which brings me to 'pinoy big brother.' i've also been reading a lot about this new show that abs-cbn will start showing next month (i think). they dubbed it 'ang teleserye ng totoong buhay' or something to that effect. i hope the producers got a good mix of houseguests so it won't be boring to watch. i'm really looking forward to this show on tfc.

the differences between big brother here and pinoy big brother?

the host/s. here, it's just julie chen. i read three people will be hosting pbb -- willie revillame (huwat?), toni gonzaga and some girl named mariel. i wonder how it will eventually play up.

the nomination/eviction. here, it's the houseguests who will decide which one's evicted. pbb will ask the help of the viewing public to evict the not-so-liked houseguest (based on a nomination from the HoH, which means Head of Household).

the prize. here, it's now one million bucks. past few seasons were 500K. pbb winner gets "a million pesos in cash pot money, a brand new Nissan Frontier Titanium 3 and a house and lot in St. Monique Villais."