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For 39 days, 16 castaways were stranded in Asia.  Every 3 days on the island became a 1-hour show.  The first contestant eliminated pockets $2500.  Each successive eliminated contestant wins more money, through the next-to-last Survivor, who receives $100,000.  The final Survivor wins a million dollars!

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Did you see Lisa win $500,000 dollars this past Wednesday night?  She didn't have to sleep in a cave, or make a thatch hut - or be up in a tree during a monsoon (she was in a tree, yes - but not during a monsoon). I think I'll leave the tribe and go into the Big Brother House instead. Bye, Jason!

(sounds of chainsaws)

What do you mean, Jason told you I may do this and you took the precaution of carving up all of the bottom of the boats? Fine, I'll stay here with my tribe - but only if we get a shelter this week, ok? I hate being drenched in this monsoon!!!!!

Last week - we have no food, no water, and no shelter, so we're all wet - but we did win the immunity challenge, so we have all of our tribe members. That being said, we're already having problems between Shii Ann and Robb, and we need the darn shelter built!

(By the way, did you like how this week they changed the credits to put the people in their tribes instead of last week's all men and all women opening credits? That Mark Burnett sure is slick, eh?)

So what happens on the morning of Day 4? It rains. Of course. Do we have our hut already? Of course not. Ken has been commandeering it, and even Shii Ann and Robb have mended their ways - for now - to complete the shelter. But Jed and Stephanie are sitting around preparing and eating food - though its not making the tribe happy, they are being constructive. 'Maybe they're all seeing it the right way - maybe food and water aren't that important' says Stephanie, tongue firmly planted in cheek.

Robb feels like confronting them, while Ken decides to play the role of Switzerland, since he 1. sees that they are doing some sort of work, and 2. doesn't want to make enemies, since making them could send you over to making huts made out of cards over at Loser Lodge.

Once it looks like the shelter was ok, we went out to find shellfish, at the beach - and they're all dead. The 6 of us go over to the cove and we find fish over there. Jed and Stephanie were the 2 non-bonders - and being alone in this game is not a good way to play.  'Stephanie, Robb and Jed didn't want to eat any of it...we all want to have a good time, but to have a good time, we first have to work together as a team.' said Shii Ann.

And disunity unlimited it was, as Robb, Jed and Stephanie decided to sleep by the beach in their little canvas tent that we slept in on the first night. 'It looks great out - I think it's going to be a clear night out, dude.' says Robb. Wrong. Here comes the lightning and monsoon and the outsiders are now a bunch of drenched polecats. Bogus, dude.

Day 5 is upon us, and as we wake up, we see that Jed has decided to come back and sleep with the rest of the tribe. He says that as long as he gets the water, he should be able to sleep with everyone else. Robb stayed in the makeshift tent, but Stephanie stayed stubborn like a mule and slept out on the beach in the torrential rain. She had a cold before - now she's sick. 'If she is sick by the time of the challenges, she could cost us immunity, and that's when the game will truly begin' . If we do lose immunity, Stephanie will be prime fodder for expulsion should we have to go to tribal council.

But it's the Reward Challenge that is first.

'Life's not so cush, running around in the bush,
Have blind faith in the one that you choose
So carry your weight, or you'll seal your tribe's fate
You'll miss great rewards if you lose'

So on the the reward challenge  - and Uncle Jeffy. There is a wooden plank - One person will be on the plank directing the rest of the people carrying the person - everyone else will be blindfolded and will have to listen to the person directing them in order to move in the right direction. There is an obstacle course - the objective is to stop at 8 checkpoints and grab a bag at each point. The first team to get all 8 bags and make it to the finish line wins the reward challenge.

And what's up for grabs? Lanterns, fishing hooks for fish, fishing line, and  a 30 meter net - much better tools than what we have now.  We have to sitsomeone out, and we can't sit someone out twice in a row. Stephanie, the sick one, gets to sit out.

The race is neck and neck all the way, but Erin's leadership and our combination of strength and speed makes the difference at the end. Chuay Gahn has one major fall at the end - and we didn't have any major disasters, so we win the race and get to use the luxury items.

Well, we won the reward - did it improve morale? We will see in the immunity challenge.

Petals on the ocean, drifting out to sea
Keep your tribe together, control your destiny
Life is like a flower, be the first to bloom
Fail to work together, and face tribal council doom

Oh that sounds nice and pleasant.

We are on a floating platform that is shaped like a petal - each member of the tribe has to dive down ten feet to release a piece of puzzle to fit in the flower. Each piece fits in only one place. If you can't dive to release the piece of the puzzle, you can pass on a leg - but only after swimming all the way there and back, which will cost valuable time.  We choose Shii Ann to sit out - but should we have picked Penny instead? She tagged out, and the lead we had now moves over to Chuay Gahn, but we get it back.

It's now down to the last person - our last person is Stephanie - and she redeems herself by beating out Clay in the last second. We get the immunity idol for the second straight week. Yay! Now if we can only stop bickering...