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 -
26 Comments Add your own
1. reallybites | May 20th, 2006 at 2:16 am
i wanna read itttttttttttt.dun care i wanna readddd!
so whats the consolation prize ah?
2. ArtificiallyVerbose | May 20th, 2006 at 2:30 am
+1 to reallybites’ first comment. can’t be that bad since it’s 20 out of 1100 no?
3. eric | May 20th, 2006 at 6:36 am
woots!
congrats congrats.. top 20 IS gratifying enough.. hahahhahaa..
ditto on the above comments.. i wanna read tooooooo.. :P
might learn a trick or two. heheh
4. Samantha | May 20th, 2006 at 10:49 am
i like the photo with the caption ‘my hot date and i’. its a very nice photo :D btw,nice dress ^.^ and congrats for being in the Top 20 out of 1100 participants :D
5. Angeli | May 20th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
congrats pinkpau! =)
6. kimberlycun | May 20th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
impressive! congratulations babe!
7. Waifon | May 20th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
I. ALSO. WANT. TO. READDDDDDD
We all should start a mob so that this smart pau here post her essay here. Ha- ha =:) Congratulations anyway! Top 20 is good enough! And why is the show such a short run production? I thought it’s going to be like Harith Iskandar’s Thurday Nite Live? Too bad then :( Hope you enjoyed Grease.
And your dress is so lawaaaaa :O
8. andrew the kiasu | May 20th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
thank you thank you pink pau!!!!
I. ALSO. WANT. TO. READ. – i havent read yet! post it up.
9. AngPau | May 20th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Well done, pinkpau!
10. kelli | May 20th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
congratulations! and where did you get that dress? so yummy! i want!
11. tze | May 20th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
ehh i saw the dress somewhere before.
and for the record; if you had won YOU WOULD BRING ME TO IRELAND RIGHT?
12. anonymous | May 20th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
wauuuuuuu… congrats!
13. liz | May 20th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
the hot date is smouldering indeed! congratz btw
14. argee | May 20th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
tch. i wanna read ur essay.
we expect to see it soon at quaintly.net. =P
15. foreverjas | May 20th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
wow.congrats! =) i wanna read it too! hehex. as usual.u look hawt in anything!!! how much does tht dress costs ? it looks perfect..! hehex.ya hawt date is hawt!
16. fishnet | May 20th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
read andrew’s essay from the link. damn powerful and thought provoking lor! really attention grabbing. omg… so high standard! i feel so lousy T-T i bet urs must be really good too. top 20 wor! congrats btw! and i noticed ur dress looked the most outstanding from the first pic :P
17. Ginny | May 20th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
hahaha..U SUPER STAND OUT LOR……… like white… all black!! DAMN LIGHTBULB FEEL!! hahahaha
18. pinkpau | May 21st, 2006 at 2:32 am
reallybites, artificially, eric, waifon, andrew, argee : CANNOT!! believe me when i say it’s utter rubbish
samantha : there was a nicer one that was unfortunately blurry :( and thank you! :)
angeli, kimberlycun, angpau, anonymous : thanks!!
kelli : it’s from phenomenal!
tze : but of course!
liz : he is, isnt he :D
foreverjas : about rm250 i think
fishnet : haha yes it’s a very good essay. told him he would win but he was like so gelabah about it :P
ginny : actually now that you mention it ..
19. vvens | May 21st, 2006 at 8:58 pm
you look cute in the fishy pose. the “sad” picture. hahahaha.
anyway, congratulations and nice dress; very outstanding!!!!
20. foreverjas | May 22nd, 2006 at 12:46 am
wah. rm 250!!!!
21. ria | May 22nd, 2006 at 4:11 pm
why am i not surprised that you made it to the top 20 of a writing contest? :D you are one of the best writers i know, i’m telling you. so keep on writing! :D you make people like me very happy, you sexy vixen. ;)
p.s. cute date you got there! :D
22. pinkpau | May 23rd, 2006 at 12:31 am
vvens : haha thanks!!!
foreverjas : tis a reasonable price :)
ria : yea i think i’ll do more essay writing competitions from now on .. haha i never used to wanna send in my work. but this win has been a great motivation!
23. hanna | May 23rd, 2006 at 2:07 am
eh what is this. i put up mine for people to read last time. you should put up yours also!
(what DID you win? they give prizes to everyone, i definitely remember that…started the second year, so i felt quite bad because the first year they gave the grand prize and the 5 other prizes, and that was it. cis.)
24. Kent | May 23rd, 2006 at 3:58 am
The guy squeezed you right boob
25. foreverjas | May 23rd, 2006 at 2:00 pm
wah. u’re rich gal! hehex.
26. quaintly.net » OMG&hellip | October 2nd, 2006 at 6:04 pm
[...] hehe Kiasu Andrew has also been shortlisted. this will be the third time in 6 months that we’re up against each other – first time at the ESUM Public Speaking Competition and the second time at the IMPAC Young Writers Award. Andrew, you already won the IMPAC one. give the rest of us a chance!!! [...]
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