Blog Awards Challenge

Thank you for submitting your entries for the "6th Blog Awards Challenge: The Virtual Vice". We would want to remind everyone about the number of words required for a post to enter the challenge.

Here are the 3 final entries. Please read the voting rules before casting your vote/s.
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Pano Palitan ng Cyberlife ang Real Life by Manic Manuals
Bored? Unappreciated? Reality too harsh? There is Life other than the pathetic one you live in. And it doesn’t require you to board a flying saucer, change your religion, or overdose yourself.

All you need is a PC, Modem, Dial Up connection (preferably DSL), a Disloyal Lover, Deceitful Friends, and Unfulfilling Job. Then follow this Manic Manual.

1.) Create Monstrous Identity.

Sa virtual world, you can make believe and fulfill your fantasies. Dito may tsansa na magpanggap na mayamang socialite ang isang katulong, or katulad ng nauuso - the other way around. Maging hunk na pinag-aagawan ng lahat by posting pictures ng iba, kahit sa totoong buhay, ikaw ang nawawalang Missing Link ni Darwin. Maging Silver Grand Knight of Deepest Hell Who Can Deal 99,999,999 Damage in One Blow, kahit lampayatot ka at may BolaPhobia (fear of any Ball Games). Read more >>>

Did Cyberlife Kill Real Life Intimacy by A Determined Frame of Mind
You only have 24 hours in one day.

You wake up, fix your bed, take a shower, eat some breakfast, and then prepare to get out of the house, an activity that takes about two hours. Then you spend another hour or two to get to your place of work or school. You spend another eight hours in that place. The clock chimes 5 pm, hurrah since its dismissal time. You rush to the nearest fx or bus station, wait for your ride to come for around 30 minutes, and then spend another hour or two traveling in the traffic laden roads during the rush hour. Twelve hours already has already gone by. When you get home you try to freshen up a bit, open the TV to the evening news, cook dinner, eat dinner and take care of the dishes after, pack the stuff you need for the next day and try to prepare for bed. Roughly 3 hours. The entire day you interact with the people around you. Before you go to bed and get a full eight hour sleep you realize you have still have one hour to spare.

You sit there pondering what to do with your spare hour and remember that you still have to check your email when you get home because your friend from Australia may have replied to your message. Or to look up what your real life friend was talking about on Google. Read more >>>

Vicious, As It May Seem by The urban gurU
Depravity, iniquity, wickedness, or corruption. Infirmity, frailty, imperfection, or simply a bad habit. Whatever you call it, to what vicious extent had cyberlife affected your ‘real’ life?

Gula. It all started with mIRC (Internet Relay Chat). And I am blaming Khaled Mardam-Bey for my Internet addiction!

Honestly, I was a late bloomer. I started chatting thru mIRC in the year 2000, five years after Khaled created the software for Microsoft Windows. In my entire fourth year high school life, I was busy browsing mIRC chatrooms, looking for fellow Filipinos, annoying an aged American chatter, or scavenging rooms just to bully anyone until 2 o’clock in the morning.

I vividly remember an instance when I recognized a name in one local chatroom. The profile says: “dundz f 25.” Curious of whom she was, I asked her, “hi! asl please?”

Homaigood! I was startled. It was my English teacher! It was my English teacher who lives two blocks away from my house. Read more >>>

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* To promote peer-to-peer recognition and respect only bona fide bloggers can vote for the competition. Anonymous voters without a valid blog will not be added to the tally of votes.

* Voters must be blogging for at least three (3) months with a minimum of thirty entries in his blog prior to his voting in the competition. This will eliminate phantom voters and reduce incidence of cheating.

* A voter is allowed to pick up to three entries among the finalists.

* The votes are added up and the winner is declared with a Reader’s Choice Award citation.

* The total number of votes (converted into weights) are added to the other weight points as set in the Winner Selection Criteria.

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Voting ends 6th September 2008.
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