I am fortunate enough to be tapped as a presenter for the 2009 Philippine Blog Awards. I shared the podium with fellow Bloggers Kapihan member and 2008 Philippine Blog Awards Best News And Media Blog winner Tonyo Cruz. We decided to not go with a script and just wing it. I may not be the best judge, but I think we pulled it off quite well. *giggles* (watch the video by Flippish, you’ll get it).
We presented four major awards. Tonyo’s successor for the Best News and Media blog was revealed to be Virtual Journals. The first winner of this award was the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. Alecks Pabico, the tech wizard behind the PCIJ’s online presence recently died after a battle with liver cancer. Tonyo Cruz egged the crowd to give Mr. Pabico a round of applause in honor of his memory.
In one of the most predictable moments of the awards night, Marck Rimorin (The Marocharim Experiment) won for the Best Commentary category. This category was only started last year where Creature Lover won.
The judges gave the bragging rights to be the best Photo Blog in the country to Estan Cabigas (I Am A Documentary Photographer). He was easily the night’s biggest winner as he was also the recipient of the trophy for the Travel Blog category for Langyaw. This makes Cabigas one of the most winningest Filipino Bloggers in PBA history – he also won an award for this post “How I Broke A Ritual Taboo In Batad” last year.
And lastly, Jim Paredes (Writing On Air) – yes, THAT Jim Paredes of the APO Hiking Society — won for the Personal Blog category. You would probably recall that I won this category last year. Shari of Misteryosa was the first winner back in 2007. The Personal category is one of the most competitive blocks since most of the nominees were entered under this niche.
The other winners were painstakingly collated and live-blogged by Tonyo.
Congratulations to everyone who were able to take home the jeepney trophies. I’ll be checking out the Cebu leg next week! The awards night will be on October 18 (Saturday) at the Ayala Sports Club.
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hey, i rather thought you did a pretty swell job (wait, does anybody still use "swell"? LOL)
i arrived late and caught only the last part (incidentally the part when you guys were presenting). which was a good thing bec. if i had arrived seconds earlier just when they announced the winner in my category, the night would totally, totally suck. LOL.
only you and a few cartoon characters can use swell. haha
Did I just walk by that video looking like a walking mass of hair? LOL
Marocharim: I thought it was intentional! Congratulations again!
that 'giggle' moment was really cute!
Professional Heckler: Thanks, I was worried that I might get heckled by someone…
goodness, I knew Kuya Alecks from waaaay back through his younger sister but had no idea he had died. I came over to read about the PBA, but got this news instead, thank you. Oh and congratulations with the Philippine Blog Awards.
congratulations to all the winners. i voted for deejay of goodtimesmanila.
2008: I Love You, Mom!
2009: *giggles*
Kitakits sa Sagada LOL
Congrats to all the winners. Natawa din ako sa "giggle". LOL