Last night as I was drifting off to sleep, in that twitchy time where ideas come to me but I'm just too tired to get up and do anything about them, I thought to myself, 'Why not have a Singapore blog awards? How hard could it be? You could create categories that would be fun, and categories tat would be serious. 'Best Beng Blog', 'Best Depressing Post' 'Blog Most Likely To Incur The Wrath of PAP', 'Blog Most Plagiarized by the MSM', 'Best Blog With the title 'SomethingStickyThisWayComes' and stuff like that. It would be a hoot.
And then I realized A) I'm lazy, B) I have no programming skills and don't really know how to set it up, and C) I'm lazy. And so I went to sleep, MachineBoy's head buried comfortingly in my armpit.
But when I woke up this morning, the idea was still buzzing around in my noggin, along with 'gotta pee', 'need caffiene' and 'gimme a cigarette'.
So if any of my clever cever readers have any ideas on how to proceed, post a comment or email me at mercermachine@gmail.com.
An adventure is, by nature, a thing that comes to us. It is a thing that chooses us, not a thing that we choose. ~G.K. Chesterton
6 comments:
don't bother, mercer.
really, with the country the way it is, it'll just turn into a frenzied popularity contest with the "celebrity crew" whoring themselves desperately to the public, taking all the titles, and parading them triumphantly to their adoring fans.
Blog awards... are for children.
Blogger Least Likely to Win a Celebrity Contest
Kiddies Favorite Blog
Blog Run By Person Most Likely To Be (or have been) An Actual Whore
Blog With Least Original Design Layout (clue: anything from Blogger)
Male Expat Blogger Who Looks Good In A Tux And (therefore) Has The Most Adoring Girlie Fans (clue - MM!)
Blog With Kena English Upside Down One
Blog That Uses Spell-Check Least
Ah, the category list could go forever...
(I notice Mr Brown has positively LEAPT to the lead in the blog awards... did he mention it on his blog, let's check...
Pause...
Yep. Late charge from Xiaxue's nutters/fans though...)
Further suggestions for categories:
Most Teenager Blog Not Written By An Adult
Least Navigable Blog
Least Updated Blog (preferably at least one year without updating)
Best Political Blog Written By A Singaporean Not Residing In Singapore (actually, this could be a serious category)
In the spirit of all things (allegedly) Singaporean, more than 50% of the categories will be walkovers (i.e. only one nominee deemed 'suitable') and voting for the remaining categories will be closely tagged so that every vote can be traced to the voter.
What about Best Looking Blogger While Hiding Face Behind Tophat?
Oh, how shameless of me!
:)
hey, just so you know, you've all ben drafted to be 'anonymous panelists'. yes, even you, re-minisce. :)
just off my head...
best use of singlish
best use of singlish by expat/foreigner
best use of local expletives
most hated in blogosphere
most hated by mainstream news
most likely to be sued by PAP
most likely to be charged for sedition
best Singtel moblog (i don't forsee any winners though)
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