The 2009 Philippine Blog Awards Visayas

October 18, 2009, Ayala City Sports – The 2nd leg of the Philippine Blog Awards 2009 was held at the Ayala City Sports. One Blogging Nation is this year’s theme to the famous Philippine Blog Awards. And it has been three years since the idea started – and that is to recognize the best bloggers in the Filipino Blogging Community. In this year’s PBAs, the phenomenal award giving body decided to recognize bloggers from all parts of the country – Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. True to its theme: One Blogging Nation. And on this day, it’s the Visayas’ time to shine.

Luzon’s Best Blogs and Bloggers were recognized last October 9 at the PETA Theatre in Quezon City. Bloggers from different parts of the Greater Manila Area came to recognize this year’s best blogs and, of course, the bloggers. The winners for the Main Awards Categories and the Special Awards Categories were also recognized during the October 9 event. Congratulations to the Winners! You all deserved it…Hats off! And oh let me also plug Mindanao’s version of the Philippine Blog Awards 2009 on October 24 at the Pearlmont Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City.

Moving forward to the Visayas Spin-off of the 2009 Philippine Blog Awards, more than 50 bloggers from Cebu and its neighbouring islands came to recognize the best Visayas-based bloggers at the Ayala City Sports, Cebu Business Park. The Cebu Bloggers Society, for one, graced the event which also made it a night of prestige, laughter, and who could’ve forgotten – camwhoring.

Congratulations to the Cebu Bloggers Society for bagging the Blogger’s Choice Award. I would also like to congratulate few of my friends from CBS who won their respective awards; Sinjin: Chikka’s Readers Choice Award and the Globe Digital Tribe Award, Jorich: Globe Digital Tribe Award, McBilly: Globe Digital Tribe Award, Clado: Best Visayan Blog, and let me also congratulate blogging friends, VanJohnn a.k.a. The Photoblogger and X of ObnoxiousQueer for bagging the Globe Digital Tribe Award as well. Kudos to you guys! Again, hats off!

The Fun Side of the Philippine Blog Awards 2009 Visayas

It was a night filled with laughter, meet and greet, and of course camwhoring! Too bad I don’t have a digital camera at the moment but videos, let me say that again, PRECIOUS and HILARIOUS Videos were captured during the night. I am not so sure though if I can post it here publicly, it’s really scandalous – LOL. I couldn’t stop LOL-ing on the camwhoring moments where most of the bloggers were standing and waiting for the camera’s shutter sound. It was also a night of meet and greet. You see, when you’re a blogger you need to be online half of the time or should I say – MOST of the TIME. Thanks to the virtual world, you get to have new friends online but having to meet these friends offline is entirely different. Liberating perhaps? Haha… Anyway, it was a night full of meeting the bloggers behind the blogs we follow. After years (make it more than 2 years) of being friends online, I finally got to meet Chattee – a blogger from Davao. Thanks Chattee! See you soon…I’m sure that will not be our last meet-up. Anyhoots, though I’ve met Mica (Micamyx.com) and Ada (Adaphobic.com) during their stint here in Cebu a few months back but having a photo together (group photo, that is) was awesome! Thank you guys! (Oops…I didn’t get to tell you the F-ing Blogger’s name, the one I plurked about – remember? Haha!) I got to see Winston, Nina, and Coy too…(oops! I’m not sure if we have photos together!). Kristine Roa (StyleCebu.com), my girlfriend…Thank you for gracing the event too! It’s been eons since the last time I saw you (Where was basti anyway?), you were great on stage too, haha!

The After Party

It was almost ten in the evening when everyone (well most) left the Ayala City Sports – to party. Most of the Cebu Bloggers Society went to Cafe Shang in AS. Fortuna, Mandaue City (we were there the night before, haha!). The night was uberly fun when most, if not all, danced the night away in front of the Videoke machine. I have the videos but again I am not sure if I can post them here…haha! I have to ask permission to the people involved too. It’s scandalous. LOL. We all called it a night after ingesting 20 bottles of beer, it was 2AM.

And since I don’t have my own set of photos, where should I grab them? Links please? Haha! Oh yeah…thumbnail credit goes to Winston.