Evening at the Awards

The NetGuide Web Awards night was held last night at the Hilton. It was a great night as always. I was at the door collecting tickets so I got to see most of the guests that came.

The first one was this woman from Orcon Internet she was 15 minutes early. But most people came on time starting at 5.30pm. I couldn’t really remember everyone as the whole time I was collecting tickets seem to have gone pass like a blur – except for one. Around 6pm I saw the Jay-Jay and Dom party coming in the sliding door. I said “Hello! How are you?” to Jay-Jay and her response was “Big shoes, small steps!” then everyone had a laugh and she tip toed her way up the stairs. *sigh* What some women would do in the name of glamour…oh for those who do not know the couple, they are 2/3 of the Morning Madhouse on the Edge radio station. Check out Jay-Jay’s site.

Around 6.30pm I proceeded upstairs and found myself a seat at the back of the second column along with other ACP Media staff. The theatre was packed…well there were about half a dozen empty seats at the back of the last column but that is due to the pricks who refuse to sit and are standing beside the toilet doors.

MC was Kerre Woodham. As always she is a great MC and speaker. Very funny, entertaining and can read the crowd very well. She did the intros etc then it was time for Sam Morgan to speak.

Well his speech was inspiring. But nothing you haven’t heard before such as how he started TradeMe on a laptop in his garage, etc…He did admit that he ripped off the member rating system off EBay (. Overall it was quite good. He is not a speaker so at the end of his speech he struggled a bit and lost his chain of thought. But who cares, we get the idea…

On with presenting the awards: all the winners are listed here. A couple of funny things that happened…There is the category “Best hi-speed Internet site” which is about web sites with content for broadband. While the finalists were being read out, there were some booing from the crowd when Xtra was mentioned but of course the winner was Xtramsn. So the format is, the winner comes up on stage; accepts his award (plaque); and say a few words. This guy from Xtra came up and one of the things he said was “We at Xtra love broadband…” then someone from the crowd yelled out “WE love broadband too!” Everybody laughed and the Xtra guy was so pissed off that he walked off the stage. Of course Kerre jokingly told off the mean people…hehehehe Another funny one, Best ISP which was won by Ihug. The Ihug guy came up and said “I would like to thank all other ISPs for running shithouses!” The rest of the speeches had some hostility in them and it seemed to be the speech theme of the night.

After the awards, food was served. Food were great. We had salmon, chicken satay, and lamb cutlets! I also had artichokes – yum yum. We’ll have some photos in the above site soon!