Now THIS is entertainment!

Okay, now that I've vented that poison out, I can focus on the more entertaining things in life.

The Amazing Race: Family Edition. Joseph was right: The Amazing Race did lift my spirits last week. The moment I heard the theme from the show, tingles ran up and down my spine and goosebumps appeared on my forearms. However, it did not lift my spirits as much as I expected it to. Even though the Amazing Race remains, and will always remain, my favorite reality show of all time, I feel that the producers have bastardized the show enough. The Family Edition is a bastardization, don't think that there's any doubt in my mind about that. Instead of 11 teams of 2, they now have 10 teams of 4-- and apparently, instead of a race-around-the-world, it's a race-around-America. It was quite disappointing, to say the least, to expect the first clue to send them to South Africa or Chile or even freaking Canada, and see them sent to Pennsylvania, instead. Those precocious kids must have something to do with this.

Upon much retrospect, though, I decided that I still like the show despite it not reaching my level of expectation. It remains, as I've said earlier, The Amazing Race, and nothing can be more amazing. It's a show that's still going to render me immobile for an hour every Wednesday for 13 Wednesdays. That's good enough for me.

Pinoy Big Brother. Ehem. Here's another show that has rendered me immobile for an hour everyday for almost a month now. Can I just say that it's really addicting? As I've mentioned in the right side of my blog, it's a show that resurrected my faith in ABS-CBN. With GMA spewing quality shows like Encatadia, it was difficult to remain purely a Kapamilya. Thank goodness ABS-CBN franchised this show from Endemol. I have never been more of a Kapamilya than I am now.

What can I say about the HMs (housemates, to those not in the loop)? First of all, I'm glad JB was evicted-- over him and Racquel, I'd pick Teacher Racquel anytime. Not only is he truly disgusting, but his love story with Say is just puke-inducing, and the fact that Big Brother gave them 100 seconds to see each other was just FOUL. It may be technically allowable, but the producers were treading on a thin line right there. Stop it, please, let the love story end. I can't wait for Say to be evicted so that she and her Jimboy can spend time making babies outside my PBB time. I'm more interested in other things, thank you very much.

Not that I like Ate Racquel that much, either. In fact, I only rooted (rooted, not voted) for her when she was pitted against JB because, between the two, she was the lesser evil. Now that she's pitted against Cass, there's no contest for me. I'm voting (in fact, I have been voting) for Cass all the way. I don't like Racquel at all. She's not gracious in the face of victory, she's not real, and she's just not entertaining. I find Cass to be entertaining and genuine. She may be loud, but she speaks her mind. I like her.

There's one more HM I'd like to talk about before moving on: Franzen. I don't like him. Most Filipinos voted for him based on his financial needs, and that is precisely the reason why I don't like him. I don't like to vote for anyone based on their financial need. It's going to be a charity show in this case. They might as well hand the prize to Franzen. If ever he advertises this need shamelessly in the future, I'm going to buy all the Datu Puti I can get just to vote for whoever remains with him in the final showdown. (Yes, there is no doubt whatsoever that he's going to be in the final showdown.)

My final five, based on what I've seen so far (in no particular order, of course):

1. Uma
2. Sam
3. Cass
4. Nene
5. Jayson

Hmmm, come to think of it, I've decided that I like Jayson to win everything. Go Jayson!