Singapore Blog Awards @ Shanghai Dolly

The biggest blog event of the year, the Singapore Blog Awards 2011 is here. The event is organised by omy.sg, a bilingual news and interactive web portal by leading media group Singapore Press Holdings Ltd.

The Singapore Blog Awards 2011 consist of 10 main awards categories, 4 sponsored awards categories and 2 celebrity awards categories.

The event was held at Shanghai Dolly which is located near Clarke Quay. That was my first time patronizing the club.

And the theme for the day was: History Gets Social. Spotted quite a couple of people dressing in historical characters.

Platters of finger food were being served in the event. They were yummy and delicious ♥

Deenise, Tracy, me and Jessie. Deenise was one of the finalists (:

By 3pm, the club was already full of people. It was very happening inside. Saw lots of familiar faces everywhere we go. We had an enjoyable time catching up and snapping photos.

With Sheron. We were sitting at the same table ♥

A photo of me. Didn’t register myself for any of the award category as I felt that my blog still need rooms for improvements. Shall enter the competition next year and be your potential competitor (:

Passing by the guys’ table to catch up with them:

With Hong Peng and Jessie. HP was one of the finalists from under the Best Social Media Integrated Blog.

With Andy aka the Daddy Blogger. He was so amusing, he brought his son’s bag along (:

The host of the event is 阿栋, Radio 1003 DJ (spotted at the right).

And the Guest-of-Honour was Major-General (NS) Chan Chun Sing, Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports and Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts.

Don’t be surprised, Minister reads blogs too. He even named a few of them. Social media platforms like is really one of the ways where you could communicate with youngsters.

With Kaiyi at our seats.

With Jessie, the first pal I met for the day.

Another shot with Hong Peng.

With the pretty girls ♥

With William, he was one of the finalists too.

Darren was at the event too.

It’s time for a tiger. This is my first time trying tiger crystal. I must say it taste really better than the normal tiger beer.

With Lynn, a new friend made at the event.

With another sweetie, Claressa.

Shortly after that, they announced the result for the 4 sponsored awards categories and 2 celebrity awards categories:

HTC Most Popular Overseas Celebrity Blog/Microblog: S.H.E Hebe
HTC Most Popular Local Celebrity Blog/Microblog: Jeanette Aw
HTC Best Mobile Blog: Kevin Soh
Asus Best Tech Blog: Elaine Chua
Adonis Best Beauty Blog: Moonberry
DEAL.com.sg Best Shopping Blog: Darren Ang

Congratulations to all the winner (:

 Before announcing the 10 main categories award winner, there was a short performance on historical characters prepared for us:

Sang Nila Utama, Cao Cao and Stamford Raffles came out too. Famous people from different eras present at Shanghai Dolly.

So the 3 guys went to find this pretty lady who made pizza. Guess what? This lady turned out to be Abigail – I first seen her on TV was in “Money not enough” movie. Wow, that was like more than 10 years ago. Anyway, the guys were accusing her of putting a pretty photo but she turned out not to be one of them. So she said she was using photoshop, everybody was using photoshop. Lol.

It’s indeed an entertaining performances.

And here’s the release of the winners for the 10 main awards categories:

Best Family Blog: Daphne Ling
Best Social Media Integrated Blog: Eric Lim
Best Photography Blog: Jerome Lim 林坚源
Best Individual Blog: Ah Pou (阿宝)
Best Fashion Blog: Valyn Lim
Domino’s Best Food Blog: Zhou Yiwei
GYSB Best Lifestyle Blog: Lim Lai Ping Karen
Best Travel Blog: Ching Min Shen 陳明盛
Best WTH Blog: Peter Breitkreutz
Best Y Bloggist: Kirsten Han

For those who did not win, please do not be dishearted. Your efforts will be recognised one day (:

The party did not end here, there was a best dress award to be given out too: And here were the potential 5 gentlemen and ladies.

Yong Wei dressing up as Dick Lee.

And Steven Lee dressing up as Michael Jackson. His dance was so funny, indeed a great entertainer of the day.

Congratulations to Liang Po Po – Mint Leong who won the female best dress award and Alexander McQueen – Eric Lim who won the male best dress award.

We had come to an end of the event. I had a great time spent with the bloggers.