Since typhoon milenyo, I stayed away from local primetime TV. However, you aren’t residing in the Philippines if you do not know the major TV networks’ (ABS-CBN and GMA-7) rivalry. Here, you are either a kapuso or a kapamilya.

These days, GMA-7 is into fanta-seryes (fantasy-story TV series) while ABS is into sine-seryes (old pinoy drama movies turned into TV series).

The thing is, here in Sorsogon if you are using the normal outdoor TV antenna, ABS-CBN’s reception is better thatn GMA-7’s, making most households kapuso by default.

When our satellite TV broke down last month, my family had no choice but to watch ABS-CBN shows via the antennaed TV. But prior to that, two TVs are hooked to the satellite TV’s decoder box, with the other TV still connected to the antenna because in cases that some of us (mostly me or Raine) is watching something else on satellite TV, the rest can still watch teledrama over ABS-CBN.

However, by the time the decoder box was fixed, my guys resumed construction of the house (mainly the roof) and so the antenna has to come down. Now I am outnumbered, they are all watching the teledramas of ABS-CBN! :-P

Except for Sharon on Sunday nights, I do not really care what are playing these days on ABS-CBN or over at GMA-7 for that matter. Especially now that I can get online at home, my family can watch ABS-CBN shows to their hearts’ content.

(Yun nga lang, I can hear everything in the background while I work at napupuyat ako kasi I can just have the TV to myself after Pinoy Big Brother.)

At least until tonight…because I watched the premiere of “Walang Kapalit”: ABS-CBN’s latest teleserye offering staring Piolo Pascual and Claudine Barreto. Well I couldn’t really resist, there’s Piolo in there. He he.

Besides, Nerissa Cabral story (Hindi Nahahati ang Langit) old movie, Christopher De Leon-Lorna Tolentino starrer, early 80’s. LOL! That’s the genre, my genre.

Probably a good genre if they’re repeating it on TV these days. Much the same way that old songs are revived into new versions. Must be good. Or they can’t make good new ones?

Reminds me of arguments with my 19-year-old bros: about who originally sang what song. Wala lang, I felt so old. He he.

Seriously, Piolo and Claudine was so good together in the movie Milan. I’ll probably watch Walang Kapalit to the finish, not only because i want to finish what I started (anyway, alam ko na naman ang magiging ending eh!), but Piolo is just so pleasing on the TV screen. He he. ;-)