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December 03:
I got the flu but here I am blogging away.

This year's Webbies was definitely more organized than last year's -- there were fewer speeches (heh), the category intros were short and quick, the actual award-giving was faster, and performances were livelier*. As a result, the entire show finished very early at 10:30, considering that it started 30 minutes late.

*In fairness, we liked the bands who performed last year but they all chose to play slooow songs so the show dragged on for more than 3 hours.

It's not as grand as the Ad Congress Araw Awards nor the NU107RA (haha, no Pasay punks here at the PWA) but the good show was a sign that the Pinoy web industry is indeed "growing up".

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Arn and I sat with Halina and J in the Philweavers area where all our friends were. The good cheer was so infectious that even if our bets didn't all win, okay lang. Some notes (disclaimer: these are personal opinions, ok?):

ARTS: HalfProject, for us, you're still the best*. (pic stolen from HP, heh)

Aww. Drew and Zoo are the winners in my book.

*Lopez Museum won. I liked Dark Elephant and PageDown (at least it won for People's Choice) too but I thought that HalfProject, being a collective, would be a shoo-in. Oh well.

MUSIC: It's PhilMusic again, folks, for the 5th straight time. (Congrats to sir Jim & co.)

NEW & ZINES: I'm proud of IndieFilipino (aba shemps kina Meg yan) for making it to the Finals but it's still admittedly a baby beside veteran greats MaArte and Generation Rice (which won, incidentally).

PERSONAL: Cool, last year's winner Nikki (of Skylight) won again. Redberger and TaymMatsing are great sites too though so I'm sure it was a tough call.

WEIRD & HUMOR: Aha, our bet KuboriKikiam won... and how! Mike's ultra-long spiel brought the house down, and will certainly go down in the history of the Pinoy Webbies. Watch the telecast and you'll see what I mean.

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A few pics (click to enlarge):

Arn conceptualized and illustrated the fantasy-themed intros, 25*8 magically transformed them into animated clips.

Arn with web gods Kubori Mike, Berger, and BongSeg.

Happy kids all: Halina, J, Zoo, yours truly and Arn.

Flash whiz Jeff having copies of MythClass 1-4 signed.

Arn with Celsius-guy AJ.

Joel and Jois reprazenting... what company again? Hehe. (Ninoy was off somewhere fetching his gf.)

Tsk tsk, superstar talaga eh. This happens to be my new desktop pic.

There should be more pictures courtesy of Carl (who was going around clicking away at people!) and AJ soon.