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AJ Jorge April 2nd, 2007

No. I didn’t won those glasses. The one on the left is Ederic’s plaque for the Globelines Special Award under Pinoy Ako category. The one on the right is Markku’s plaque for winning the best plugin award for his iPap plugin. Since Ederic wasn’t there and Markku’s taking pictures everywhere, I volunteered to hold the plaques from Markku and took the oppurtunity to have my photo taken. Thanks jester!

Though I didn’t win those plaques and the coveted iPod, I won 2 free movie tickets from SM. Well, better than nothing. I must admit that if I won the iPod again, I would claim my 15minutes of fame on the stage when I accept it. Haha. People everywhere there were casting spells and curses on me if and when I won the iPod. Wala naman akong ginagawang masama ah. Masama bang umasa uli na manalo? hehe.

Okay, off to the obligatory link love…

Let’s start off with the winners. A little copy and paste magic will do the trick.

Main Awards
Best Personal Blog: Misteryosa
Best Home & Living Blog: Wifely Steps

Best Socio-Political Blog: Philippine Commentary
Best News & Media Blog: Inside PCIJ
Best Fashion & Lifestyle Blog: Bryanboy: Le Superstar Fabuleux
Podcast of the Year: HappySlip
Best Technology Blog: Leon Kilat: The Cybercafe Experiments

Best Business/Entrepreneur Blog: Reflections of a BizDrivenLife
Best Entertainment Blog: Retzwerx
Best Sports & Recreation Blog: Who rides a Vespa?
Best Travel Blog: Ivan About Town
PhotoBlog of the Year: Señor Enrique: Wish You Were Here

Special Awards winners
Best Blog Design: Far from Neutral Notions
Best Free Custom Theme: Blu3zin3
Best Plugin/Extension: iPap
Best OFW Blog: Kwentong Tambay
Bloggers’ Choice Awards: MarketManila

Globe Broadband Awards
Blog Achievement Award: The Mommy Journals
Pinoy Ako Blog Award: ederic@cyberspace
Family Blog Award: About My Recovery
Blogirl Award: Well Whatever
Deliblog Award: Dessert Comes First

It was nice meeting bloggers in the real world. Tess of Prudence and Madness, Pierre of Jester-in-exile and me were seat mates during the whole ceremony.

We were originally seated on the balcony but went down since there were many vacant seats left. The invocation of Father Stephen was cheered on by the bloggers but one cried foul. You should take time to read the prayer (you really should) and see what the fuss Benj made. I feel for Benj and do hope it will not stop him from attending the future gatherings.

Kiven was a bit bitter (or very bitter for that matter) not only for not winning the Best Theme award but also for showing the wrong theme in the presentation of finalist. Tampururot tuloy si mokong at di sumama sa afterparty. Another thanks (and link) goes to Markku for the ride on the way to Hulahula bar from RCBC together with Karla (who has nice set of photos from the awards here) and Joey.

The afterparty was great. Foods and booze were flowing. The only problem is, the tables were separated. We were far apart from each other. I had the oppurtunity to chitchat with Sasha and Rico. FiredEyeBoy was the first to leave. Chris and Poell taught me how to go about blog to profit and I will be registering soon after finishing this entry. The now famous Shari is there with us and so is the colorful LA with his coat and yellow polo. Apples was there too who I should remember to give a copy of Sassygirl and Windstruck on iBlog3. Heneroso, utakGago and their group joined us when some of the seats were vacated. Pierre provided the stories from politics, sex, blogspot vs wordpress, organizing the steal-the-ipod-from-aj mission and anything under the sun (or moon) topic. To Juned, Jun and Jomar who I first met during the BlogCon, great to see you there once again – active na active na kayo sa organizing committee ah.

Kudos to the organizers and volunteers and of course to all sponsors and donors. We sincerely hope we will have another get together some time soon.

Organizers and Volunteers

• Noemi Dado
• Jomar Hilario
• Carlo Roxas
• Lizbeth Buenaflor
• Juned Sonido
• Jun Asis
• Bimbo Isidro
• Chris Havarata
• Chris Lagman
• Darwin Sotto
• Eric Dormido
• Elber Cruz
• Joni Ang
• JR Ignacio
• Karla Redor
• L.A Lomarda
• Mae Paulino
• Marc Villanueva
• Markku Seguerra
• Moslemen Macarambon Jr.
• Migs Hipolito
• Migs Paraz
• Rhiza Sanchez
• Shari Cruz
• Tina Matanguihan
• Vida Cuaresma
• Will Garcia

Co-Presentors

• Ikobo
• Josiah’s Catering Incorporated
• Globe Telecoms / Globe Innove
• b5media Blog Network
• e-Yellowpages
• Yehey!
• Nestle Philippines

Major Sponsors

• About My Recovery
• Ad Max Asia
• Automattic
• Bayanihan Blog Network
• The Blog Herald
• Click the City
• EntrePinoys
• Fotogra Weddings, Inc.
• Level-Up! Games Inc.
• Migs Paraz
• The Pinoy.tv
• Pinoy Expats
• Pinoy Money Talk
• plogHost Web Services
• Rising Sun Computers
• SEO Philippines
• Sheero Media Solutions
• Sigshare – Share Sigs, Renders & Digital Art
• Tsikot
• Inquirer.net
• YehBA*
• Adobe User Group – Philippines

Minor Sponsors

• Annalyn Jusay
• TxtBuff – A collection of SMS quotes in the Philippines
• Davao Blogspace: The Aggregator of All Davao Blogs
• My Journal Philippines
• Tagpuan Forums
• SELaplana
• Thoughts in Binary
• Bembang! Blogs
• Mukamo Filipino Forum
• Bisaya Bloggers

Donors

• Krispy Kreme Philippines
• SM Cinemas

To those I missed in the link loving, leave a comment and I will gladly add you to the list.

Boys Shot – thanks to Karla for the pic.

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