Archives for June 2004

I haven’t written much about BB4 lately probably because I’m really bored with it. It’s so predictable with who is being evicted – and I must say that I don’t vote cause I don’t want to line their pockets with 55c each time I vote so my apathy could be part of the problem. It was really obvious that Violetta would be evicted last night in the Intruder eviction. I guess it’s different being a housemate and putting up with her but from a viewers point of view she should have stayed and Monica should have gone. Nearly all the other housemates shit me except for Paul. I hope he wins it. If it comes down to a 3 way contest between him, Catherine and Ryan I will be voting for Paul to win the contest.

A while back I summarised my feelings for the housemates.

– Paul is on top of my favourite list because he does say what he thinks – he comes across as honest.
– Ryan is obviously a BB favourite – winning the football thing. What is it about Australia and sports?
– Ashalea – plain annoying and playing dumb. Saying she’s a target when being nominated. Darling, everyone has to be nominated – why should you be any different?
– Bree – Come on girl, let us know your true feelings about Ryan. You do like him so don’t bother trying to hide it as it just makes you look like a liar.
– Monica – seems ok but I’d like to see her do something to make me like her more.
– Wesley, Trev and Catherine – who are they?

A little while ago I wondered if the BB4 housemates read or were allowed to read books they’d brought into the house. I posted to the BB4 forum and asked this question and only got one response saying they thought so but just hadn’t seen anyone reading this year. My question was answered for me on television last night during the BB4 nightly show when the narrator said something like, ‘Without books and tv in the house the housemates….’. Perhaps the Big Brother team read the forum and answer questions like this in the nightly show or whichever show is appropriate for the question asked. I know last year books were allowed in the house as I remember Chrissie reading books.

Watching my fourth season of Australian Big Brother I’m interested in what the housemates do to pass the time away, given that they don’t always have set tasks. One thing I’ve noticed in comparing this year’s season to last year is that I have not seen anybody read a book. Are they allowed to bring books into the house this year or is it just that nobody is a reader? I would go absolutely insane in the house, or anywhere for that matter, if I could not read. I have things to read all over the place. On the kitchen table there’s the paper from last weekend or the weekly free paper and maybe some junk mail. I have at least one book on the go in my bedroom that I read before I go to sleep. My ex-boyfriend was not a reader and he could not understand why I liked to read so he used to deride me for reading and for my choice of books (mainly thrillers).

Back to do the BB housemates read? I’m going to post to the BB forum and see if anyone can tell me.

Have had a pretty quiet weekend for a long weekend. Saturday evening has been the only time that I caught up with friends. I had two friends around for dinner and made a roast beef with home-made gravy which I’ve never made before – the gravy that it. It tasted great but there wasn’t much of it. I think I could have watered it down a bit more. I even made a pavlova as I had some egg whites left over from my moussaka I made earlier. We all had far too much to drink; gin and tonic, red wine, some strong ale and chased with a Coopers Pale Ale and coffee and water. I felt pretty bad yesterday and as the weather was miserable it was easy to stay inside after venturing outside to get some hot chips and a video – Monsters Inc for myself and Jaycee Junior. It’s now his favourite video. Hopefully it won’t be too much of a wrench for him when we have to return it next Sunday.

After gladly putting Jaycee Junior to bed I settled in to watch Big Brother eviction show where Merlin got evicted which was pretty predictable. I think the ones that generally go are the ones that are shown the most during the week after they are nominated. Merlin was shown a lot because of his discussion about nominations and receiving two strikes. Of course he did his free the refugee protest as he was walking down the gangplank at the stadium towards Gretel and refused to speak to her. I think he’s a big hypocrite for doing this protest as if he felt that strongly about it he should have registered to vote when he could. Even his interview with 2UE this morning was pathetic when he was challenged about not being Australian – he just kept reiterating the fact that he is Australian because he’s lived here for some time and feels very strongly about this country. I don’t think he thought through the consequences of what he did last night and how it might go. Of course lots of people are going to ask him about his protest but apart from what he did last night what’s he going to do? I wonder if he will actually do the cause any good or just give people the fuel they want who are pro refugee detention.