It’s been a few days since I attended (and spoke) at Nuffnang’s Blogopolis and I’m still impressed by how smoothly and how enriching the event was. For those who don’t know, Blogopolis was attended by approximately 300 Australian bloggers, keen to learn how to take their blogs to the next level. The creme of the crop in terms of blogging, shared many juicy tips and tidbits. I believe we all came away with more direction, inspiration and motivation.

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“I have been given an iPhone 4 by Telstra free of charge to review. The comments expressed by me reflect my own user experience and personal opinion and are not made on behalf of Telstra.”

Around 2 years ago, at this time of the year, I was the first owner of a Telstra iPhone 3G in Melbourne. I remember queueing up with a friend overnight just to ensure that we got ours early so that we could show the guys in the office and not have to line up during the day. Never did I intend to be the first, nor did I want the publicity that I received on the day but it was an experience that I’ll cherish for the rest of my life!

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My buddy Beatrice Tan, who I met along with many others at the Seoul LG Blogger Forum last month, just tagged me in a YouTube Video that shows some of the awesome fun we had on the day we did an Amazing Race type event.

Each team had a dedicated professional video and camera man assigned to capture the major highlights of each team’s adventure for the day!

For those who want to skip to the parts where I’m running around like a crazy lunatic, singing Karaoke or playing my role as Sneezy Dwarf (Our team was called SW7 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and I actually had a cold too) – jump to 2:49 and then to 7:03.

We did it!! Our website won the Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blog Awards title for Best Geek Blog 2009!

I wish I had more time to post up all the photos of the amazing dinner gala night with all the marvellous bloggers that I met yesterday, however we’re about to head out and tour Singapore as part of the “Uniquely Singapore” experience that I’ve been talking about.

For now I would like to say thank you to my loving family, friends, customers and readers for all their support over the last six years that I have been blogging. This awards comes as a sweet boost of encouragement for us as a business and website coming out of the effects of the Global Financial Crisis as well as some operational / technical difficulties we’ve worked hard to resolve with our shop end over the last 12 months.

Never Give Up!

“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense” – Winston Churchill

Just goes to show that, no matter how bad things may seem at the time, if you just keep focused and committed that God will reward your efforts!

Thankyou Sponsors

Thank you again to Nuffnang and the major sponsors of the night – Pringles, Uniquely Singapore and Canon (who gave me a Canon G11!).

Now off to see this totally awesome city of Singapore *puts on photography hat*…..

Ok I’ve just arisen from my 10 hour slumber to catch up from the 45 minutes of sleep I had while camping for the iPhone 3G.

(Picture courtesy of OneRedRobin.com.)

Definitely one of the most interesting days of my life. God really does have great sense of humour.

You can catch the log of my iPhone 3G campout at my personal website. (Click here)

I will also be writing an in depth iPhone review today, so watch this space. In short, in terms of best cell phones of 2008, the iPhone 3G is it!

Thank you to The Age, Herald Sun, Channel 10, Channel 7 and Nova FM Melbourne for the exposure and media experience. Of course not to forget Telstra and Apple