Toowoomba Travels, Big Blindside

Hello all,

Right now I am heading along the highway, along with all the other Easter traffic, the head up to Toowoomba for this ‘long weekend’. For clarification I am NOT driving so you can all not panic and wonder why the heck I would be typing while I am driving. Although I am amazingly multi-talented so an amazing act like that would not be abnormal for me.

I am heading up to Easterfest which is a music festival that happens every year at Easter and has awesome music, great activities and fantastic people. It is an event I thoroughly recommend you go to, yes you. This will be my 9^th or 10^th year; haven’t quite worked that one out just yet, but still, it’s long.

I’m sure I’ll ramble on about the goings on of the festival later in another blog but for now I want to talk about Survivor, just for a little while I promise. Well, it depends on your definition of little.

Last episode of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains was a cracker. Hold on, who says cracker? It was crazy. For all those who did not watch because you are either –

A) A A) Boring.

B) B B) Think you are way too cool for such an amazing show

C) C C) You had too much to do (Whatever! Make time next time!) , or

D) D) You do not know what Survivor is because you have been living in an igloo the past 20 years and it has only just recently melted due to global warming and has forced you out into the big wide world with so much as snow boots and the smell of fish on your wooly self.

Well, let’s recap shall we? It was a double tribal council where decided “Hey, why don’t we all have tribal council tonight and kick a person off from each tribe yeah?” Then the tribes grumbled and moaned and then competed in a challenge for Individual Immunity. Candice won from the Heroes tribe. Candice who? Yeah, I know right. Candice is from The Cook Islands season. The same season Parvati originally came from. She’s a bit of an unknown so it is very weird to me that she’s there, but I’m not Jeff, I don’t make the rules. Although sometimes I wish I was but that’s another story. Boston Rob won from the Villains tribe. Then both competed, representing their tribes, to gain food. Boston Rob won that one which, really, was no competition.

Russell and (I’m going to call him Bob) Bob have been having it out for each other since the beginning, fighting over who is the better player. Pretty much like cave men fighting over who is the leader of the tribe. Hold on, they are fighting to be the leader of the tribe. Russell holds the hidden immunity idol and has an alliance with Parvati and Danielle. Bob has an alliance with everyone else. So therefore Bob looks to be in control and he conjures up an idea to get rid of the idol and, in turn, see off one of the people from Russell’s alliance, preferably him. Split the vote, 3 for Parvati and 3 for Russell. Easy. Done. One of them would be gone because the 3 votes that the Russell alliance would have going to Tyson will only tie the vote. When that happens, there is a revote and that would mean that Bob’s alliance would have the upper hand.

Before tribal council Russell goes up to Tyson and tells him that he believes he cannot do anything to save Parvati and, it will be sad to see her go, but he’s going to vote for her. There’s nothing he can do to save her. Tyson agreed. He tells Russell that he’ll be voting for her too now. So therefore he decides to change his vote from Russell to Parvati.

Tribal council comes. Russell looks to use his idol on himself but instead then decides to give it to Parvati to use. This then makes all votes for Parvati not count. Votes are read. 4 votes Parvati….2 votes Russell….2 votes Tyson…1 vote left. Final vote goes to Tyson. As his torch is snuffed out Bob looks puzzled as to what just happened. Tyson, in effect, voted himself out because he changed his vote. Dumb move by Tyson. Awesome move by Russell. Great tribal council. Here is the video of the whole thing. The Ultimate Blindside.

Heroes were boring. They sent the injured James home due to his bad knee. Good move. Should’ve happened before Tom was voted out.

Now I already know the list of people who are going to be booted out so I’m not going to say much more about next episode but it’ll be great. I assure you. I apologise about the length of this ramble. I just love this show.

Thank you all for paying such good attention. I shall bring you another blog after Easterfest is over. Thanks for reading.

Peace out.

The beginning...

So when I thought of writing a blog I was bored and had nothing to do. Right now, I am currently in the middle of a busy time where 4-5 assignments are due for uni next week! Perfect time to start a blog right?

Well at a time where I am getting frustrated with uni I thought I'd take time to just type about my thoughts about random topics I am sure noone wants to read about. But first, I want to tell a little bit about me.

My name is Brendan and at the moment I am 21 and a half (my half birthday being on the 24th of December. More about that in a future blog). I live in a small seaside town on the east coast of Northern NSW in Australia. I love my sport, you'll hear more about that in future blogs. I love watching tv, especially Survivor (you'll hear about that also). I am currently doing a Bachelor of Education in Primary School teaching. Any other questions about me just add a comment and I'll try and answer them!

The two things on my mind at the moment are cricket and Survivor.
At the moment Australia are over in New Zealand and are in day 2 of the first Test. Australia already won the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy 3-2. Although it's been a great start by Aus and Michael Clarke has made an amazing comeback from all the pressure form the media after his breakup with Lara Bingle, my focus isn't really on the test series but more on the IPL in India. The IPL is a Twenty20 competition in India where different franchises buy players from all around the world for thousands, sometimes millions of dollars to play for their teams. My focus is specifically on Matt Hayden, ex opening batsman for Australia, and his new bat, the Mongoose. This bat is awesome. It looks kinda like a baseball bat with the same long handle except that it has a cricket flat at the end. Last night, he started to use his old bat and after hitting his third boundary he opted for the Mongoose. 2 balls later he hit 4 fours and a six and it was game on. Amazing talent that he has, although he has retired for some time now, he still shows he and his Mongoose still have it. He reached 93 off 43 deliveries and showed that the future of cricket will be shown through the past in Hayden. Awesome stuff. Look out for him during the IPL.

Second thoughts, Survivor. You'll probably hear me ramble on about this show a lot. I apologise in advance. I'm not going to bother explaining it to all those who have no idea what im on about but if you'd like to know here's a link Survivor . At the moment it is into it's 20th season - Heroes vs Villains. For so so long I have wanted to be on this show but, for you to be allowed to go on, you need to be an American citizen. Lame. But until they change the rules, which will most likely be never, I am enjoying seeing these Yanks put themselves in these situations. Although I accidently stumbled across spoilers and therefore know who is getting booted off and when, I still enjoy watching this great show. Genius in it's production and ideas. It was looking like this would be the final season but it has been signed on for another two seasons, possibly in Nicargua (following rumours) and rumours also speculate that if there is a 23rd and 24th then it may be in the Phillipines. Nice. This show could go on for a while!

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