Pinoy Big Brother

I’ve been a big fan of Pinoy Big Brother Reality Show in ABS-CBN… from the time it was initially aired from Season 1 until now… watched closely the plight of my favorite housemates, like Kumander Nene and Karate Chick Gege to the Sassy Girl Beatriz.

At first, it wasn't quick for me to realize what values it try to teach the viewers. 

What positive I see in PBB?

1. “Mirroring Ourselves”

It has become an effective tool to self-re-assessment.

Who among the housemates can you relate yourselves with?

What positive and negative attitudes you think you have that when opened out and dealt with other housemates would yield the best and not-so-good results?

1. An extra push to help and be aware.  Sometimes we’re not aware or we’re trying ourselves not to be aware of what has really happening outside.  It gives us a push, somehow, to extend our help… not just in voting for the favorite housemates but on the tasks that require outside help from the viewers.

1. Attitude check

What’s admirable and what’s not admirable?

What deserves an applause and what deserves a kick?

1. We sometimes become too judgmental of the housemates behavior and reactions inside but we are seeing ourselves… and who sees us while we’re giving such nasty comments about them… another Big Brother in the person of God.

       This reality show demands us to become open-minded at people’s diversity.  Remember, each of the housemates, represent a larger set of people outside the house.  Many of us are like Mickey, or Gee-Ann, or Wendy, or Beatriz, or Ate Raquel or Franzen or even Jason or Keanna.

It helps us to develop a heart full of love and understanding at each of the housemate’s mistakes and shortcomings and triumph at each of their victories, be it little or big.

      This is what reality show teaches us.  SEE THE REALITY!

And if you can’t resist the not-so-good that’s happening inside, then do something good to change it outside.

We are all housemates in a much larger PBB House of God…

Someone sees us and saddens at how we deliberately react at other people.

Someone sees the goodness, the strengths and weaknesses, and the funny lil toinks in us.

Yet… continue to love us.

At the end of the season, it’s not just the Big Winner inside that wins, but all of those who learned the value that this reality show wishes to extend to us.

The Big Winner is US.

It's not just who we put on top but on the kind of attitude and the kind of personality we let ourselves win! 

And my appeal to PBB Management is not to distort the values that the show extends in exchange of higher ratings and profit.

There’s good and beneficial in your show which you, yourselves, are not aware of it.

Don’t fool the viewers.  Respect them as they have respected you in several seasons that you have aired PBB in the Philippines.  Make them feel that PBB here is separate and different from the PBB around the world.

It has credibility.

It’s a triumph of the people.

It has a heart that cradles the best!

Don’t make them feel as if being fooled by distorting the events and hiding what is supposed to be shown and be proud of.

Make it real. Don’t put magic into it!

It’s a REALITY SHOW not REEL-ALITY.

Think of the good for the great number of people not just of your own.

Always bring the admirable winner on top of the house…

We’re bringing it proudly to all the nations in the world. 

This is what you do.  This is what the housemates do.  This is how we see it.  This is how other people see it.

Get it right, Kuya?