Day 1 in Singapore: 2009 Nuffnang Blog Awards

Our good friend, Jehzeel Laurente, made it to the Finals under the Most Influential Blog of the Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards. He told us that finalists are to walk in the red carpet of the awards night in Singapore all for free.

Bloggers from Philippines

It has come to my attention that Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards featured a Win an Exclusive to Invites to Uniquely Singapore. Together with my blogpals, we career the Pringles and Uniquely Singapore blog posts and thinking positively, we prepare our passports.

Can someone tell me what exactly are these? It looks like cargo ships. But cargo ships of what. Interesting

Arrival time at Changi Airport is 9:20 in the morning (no time difference from PH). Changi airport is way peaceful than of Manila. No picture taking allowed but I attempted and a lady-like-lesbian airport officer come and told me to delete the photo I took.

At the waiting area, while everyone is lined up in the Money Changer booth, Nuffnang Co-Founder, Ming Shen, welcomes us Filipino bloggers.

Ming Shen with Jehzeel Laurente

This is it. I am wowed. It’s time to go Link Hotel. I still can’t believe that my feet is touching the land of Singapore. The feeling is great and the atmosphere is good. Trees are everywhere. No single piece of trash.

On our way to Link Hotel, I am really awed by the cars as it looks like they are all brand new. I also notice that there is no smoke coming from the vehicles.

Due to curiosity, we asked a Singaporean taxi driver why is it that all vehicles in the country are clean. He told us that it’s part of their Road Rules and Regulations. Have a clean car and wash it at least twice a day. *wowed*

At the Link Hotel, everyone is waiting for 2 o’clock, the time of check in. Link Hotel is one of the prestigious botique-style hotel in Singapore located at Tiong Bahru.

Frances enjoyed looking at the photos while at Link Hotel.

Hot sunny day welcomes us. We headed to the nearest food chain in Tiong Bahru road.

Jehzeel, Mica and Yoshke.

While in PH duck is expensive and served in selected restaurants, in SG, duck is an ordinary food which can be bought anywhere at a cheap price.

Char Siew Mee (Asado) for $2.50

The food satisfies our stomach. We are hyper and energetic, enough to do camwhoring. The place we chose is covered with trees and grass, so much to relax after being full from the char siew.

Clockwise: Maki, Hannah, Yoshke, Jehzeel, Mica, and My Brute live action.

What comes after camwhoring is exhaustion. Finally, the clock hits the target time of checking in. Together with my assigned roomate Mica, we immediately unpack our luggage. The room has a big television but we did not use it; instead, we listen to the relaxing music from iPod and get some rest.

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Mirror camwhore.

Suddenly, we realize that both of us didn’t bring soap, so we plan to buy soap at the nearest store. And we found about this Cheers mini store (located on 1st floor of Link Hotel). But OMFreakinGGuh how come they don’t sell soap!! What the freakin hell!!

We look idiot looking for soap until someone told us that Singaporeans don’t use bar soap which we are trying to look for because they uses liquid soap!

Time for some rest in preparation for the biggest event ever held by Nuffnang, the Asia-Pacific Blog Awards.

Bloggers from Australia

I’m pretty sure they are bloggers from Malaysia. It’s a back shot while we camwhore at the stage. Joining them at the photo op would be fun, but we didn’t had the chance to sneak in.

Pan Pacific Hotel

Pan Pacific Hotel served their best food starting with nonstop bread and butter, appetizer consist of ham, tomatoes and other veggies, main dish of chicken with mushrooms, veggies, delectable corn, and mashed potato (not sure if it’s potato), and a sweet dessert.

Awards night were also presented by Allan Wu, J C Sum & ‘Magic Babe’ Ning, and indie band Electrico.

Two pinoy made it to the top. Filipino Australian Arnold Aranez (A pinoy in Australia) of Mr Gadget won the Best Geek Blog and Ferdz Decena of Ironwulf won the Best Travel Blog.

Xiaxue bags 3 awards during the night under Most Influential, Best Blog Design, and Region’s Best Blog.

Other winners include Bonito Chico for Best Blog Shop, Kennysia Best for Entertainment Blog, Joanne Peh for Best Celebrity Blog, Childhood101 for Best Parenting Blog, Lady Melbourne for Best Fashion Blog, ieat-ishoot-ipost for Best Food Blog, and The Doodle Blog for Best Hidden Gem. Jayden bags the $5000 for the Best Krrunchy Video.

It’s a long day and I really didn’t feel tired. Probably, I don’t want to end the day and take more photos from the event.

Congratulations to all the winners and Nuffnang for making this big event possible! You can check out other photos from this album: Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blog Awards Night Photos.

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