I went to my first event as a blogger last weekend. Singapore Blog Awards 2013 was held at Shanghai Dolly, Clarke Quay. These are the usual of questions people ask whenever I tell them about it.

Why? What is it (Singapore Blog Awards)?
It is my first time attending a blogger’s event and which event could be better than Singapore Blog Awards! It is the organised by omy.sg, Singapore Press Holdings’ leading bilingual news and entertainment portal to honour independent bloggers who devote their time and energy to create and maintain informative and innovative blogs. It is well into its 6 years and this year’s theme is 60s Fever.

What are the prizes?
The prizes include a specially designed trophy, cameras & home appliances, a trip to Northern Territory, Australia, web-hosting vouchers, fashion apparel, audio equipment, eyewear, online shopping credits. They are worth more than $35,000 in total. Pretty awesome if you are one of the winners.

Are you nominated?
Nope, yours truly is not nominated and has only been blogging for 3 months. Thanks very much for making me feel inadequate.

Who are the winners?

Ta-da! Congrats to all the winners! Photo credit to workingwithgrace. 10 Main Category Award Winners Panasonic (Best Photography Blog)  Christina Gao  travelgraphy.wordpress.com Exabytes (Best Individual Blog) Grace Tan　 workingwithgrace.wordpress.com Levi’s (Best Fashion Blog) Jaslin Tan www.justjaslin.com Nanyang Optical (Best Lifestyle Blog) Jasmine Koh 　  www.scissorspaperstoneblog.com Best Family Blog Ai Sakura www.sakuraharuka.com Best Food Blog Tony Boey　 johorkaki.blogspot.sg Best Travel Blog Ng Sock Peng mylovelybluesky.com Best What-The Hell Blog  Willy Wah www.lonelyclass.com Best Vlog Ninja Girls www.youtube.com/ninjagirlsSG Best Microblog Leonard Lim Twitter.com/spinorbinmusic Panasonic (Most Popular Local Celebrity Blog) Jeanette Aw https://www.facebook.com/xuantasy Panasonic (Most Popular Overseas Celebrity Blog) Alien Huang  https://www.facebook.com/aes.alien Special Category Awards Panasonic Best Beauty Blog ▪   Elrica　－ pink-buble.blogspot.sg ▪   Elaine　－　 www.elaine73.blogspot.sg ▪   Karen aka Renzze　－　 www.renzze.com ▪     Panasonic Best Cooking Blog Celes  www.celestialdelish.com Panasonic Best Eco-Challenge Blog Ivan Kwan  lazy-lizard-tales.blogspot.com Glossi Best Modelling Blog Karen aka  www.renzze.com JBL Best Pop/Music Blog ▪   Mint Leong (1st prize)　 www.mintleong.sg ▪   Leo (2nd prize)　 www.spinorbinmusic.com Levi’s Best 501 Interpretation Blog Claire www.claires-flair.com Qoo10 Best Online Shopping Blog (1st prize) mitsueki.wordpress.com   (2nd prize) www.imandystorm.com (3rd prize)  reginachow.blogspot.sg (3rd prize)  www.lukeyishandsome.com (3rd prize) faithjoyhope.blogspot.sg

Any highlights?
These photos say it all. By the way, I was too busy checking everyone out in their cool outfits, I forgot to take photos except for a few on Instagram. Rookie’s mistake. So photos are stolen from other bloggers, as credited.

Check out this fashionista. Photo credit to wastedfashion.

Clockwise from top left: With @smithankyou, Guest-of-Honour, Mr Lawrence Wong, Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth & Senior Minister of State for Comm and Info, @gingerbreadmum (Winner of best costume). and @triciakoh

With Tricia right before the award ceremony. Photo stolen from sgblogawards.omy.sg

Trying hard to channel Megan Draper of Mad Men. Pathetic attempt at looking 60s Retro with a head scarf.

Thanks OMY for the invitation and well done on another great event!