Cyberclogs

So the next Patter Merchant show isn't far away now at all as next Tuesday and Wednesday night we'll be ready to do another show up at Gramofon (on King Street). This time round the scenes will be lengthier and fewer in number so there's still a challenge for the group there. I'm only doing one scene this time, which is fine for me as last time it felt like we had to juggle quite a bit doing the two (although I did enjoy it of course!). So we'll see how it goes next week, I won't say too much about it just now but I'll post up an entry once the shows are over.

And a different note the new series of the Apprentice has been on 3 weeks now and I've really enjoyed it so far. Thankfully this year even though they still have recruited some plonkers the overall group aren't the nasty assortment we had last year (bar a few of course) and this week's task was quite enjoyable. This week Sir Alan wanted the two teams (cheesily named Ignite and Empire) to create a piece of home exercise equipment that can be sold to retailers. The two teams both struggled at first to come up with ideas, and James who lead his team (or did he?) left it up to the young and cocky Ben to come up with their idea of a box you could use to work your lower muscles and triceps (I think!). The other group lead by Deborah (who's shaping up to be a real domineering pain!) came up with an idea for something that resembled a toilet seat which could be used to exercise your overall "core" so to speak. Nevertheless SHOW RUINER: Ignite won the task as they managed to secure the biggest amount of sales while Empire secure the least amount of sales in the entire show!

When it came to the boardroom bash James the team leader brought in Ben (who came up with the idea for the failed product) and Majid (who apparently stood around doing nothing throughout the task). After much boardroom debate, Sir Alan chose to fire Majid on the grounds of not contributing enough to the task. I felt even though on this task Majid didn't do as much, it wasn't really his fault, surely this boiled down to poor delegation from James, who didn't clearly give him enough to do, leaving the guy out feeling like a spare part, as I clearly saw Majid contribute quite alot in the previous task. James on this task also failed to assert himself by expressing his doubts and reservations about the product Ben which hilariously praised as the best thing he's ever done! In fact I'm amazed that James wasn't fired for this task the responsibility of its failure rested largely on his shoulders, it was only Margaret's observation that he was not bad at management that kept him from getting the black hack taxi, personally though I don't mind him so much, despite being a plonker he is fairly likeable. Ben on the other hand has been quite irritating so far as he clearly has far too big an ego and an inflated opinion of himself, and yes he did contribute alot to this task, but he made the biggest contribution to a failed task. Did he really deserve a second chance? Maybe not. But he got one anyway.

Anyways that's enough of the Apprentice. More blog entries will follow this weekend in fact as the Doctor Who Easter Special, Planet of the Dead is on ramorra and Red Dwarf is back on our screens tonight in the first of a new 3 parter, Back to Earth, wohoo!! Let's hope its good!