Dublin Literary Award Dinner
May 20th, 2006
those who saw the list of shortlisted finalists for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in the newspapers a couple of weeks back would know that my essay (undeservingly) managed to get into the Top 20 :) so tonight was the dinner at the Parkroyal - where they announced the Grand Prize winner, who gets to go to Ireland for the Dublin Literary Award Ceremony and get high on Guinness for a week and play with little green leprechauns!
and of course, like predicted, Kiasu Andrew won :D
(hehe, time for me to collect my wins from all the bets i placed! andrew, i will start with that dinner you promised me..)
t’was fun, though i didnt get to meet about 10 of the finalists since we were all put at different tables. got to meet Suet for the first time though, and Clement as well! also saw a couple of acquaintances from the public speaking competition where Andrew and I met. bumped into Glenny as well, who was covering the event. heehee managed to cajole him into taking some nice pics of us - will put them up when he sends them over. but for the meantime, here are the sucky pics from my sucky camera!
the finalists
amanda so hot!
me and the overexcited manic champion who is trying to look unexcited and unmanic
my hot date and i
pinkpau is sad cos she didnt win the grand prize :(
hehe actually no la, i kid, i’m not sad at all. i went there already not expecting to win, because my essay was utter crap compared to the likes of the other finalists. *malu* i am already DAMN HAPPY that i am in the Top 20 out of 1100 participants. not too shabby for my first ever essay competition, eh?! :D congratulate me la, i’m so excited you know.
and no, you cannot read my essay. cos it’s crappy. so stop asking!!!
and even though i have said it like 50000 times tonight, CONGRATS again to Andrew Loh the Kiasu for bagging grand prize .. :D bring me back a leprechaun!!
(i wish Damansara Jaya kids would stop winning all the competitions!!!)
here is a nice pic of the manic grinning Andrew who couldnt stop bopping up and down in his seat after the results were announced -
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