I didn’t win the iPod Video at the Blog Parteeh.

So me, Karla, Aaron and Ajay went around looking for a Starbucks after the event, so we’d have some drinks to match our newly-acquired half-dozen boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts. And I also wanted to drink away my iPod-induced misery.

Unfortunately, we weren’t able to find a Starbucks, but we did find a quaint little place where thet had good cappuccinos.

AARON: There donuts are delicious. ME: (munching on a donut while crying) But I wanted the iPod KARLA: Aw c’mon Ade, there are like fifty bloggers there and one iPod. ME: But youy see, I have ID# 1079! And the winner’s ID was 1078! I am emo!!! [stops crying lone enough to stuff my face with another donut] AJAY: You seem so contented enough with the donuts. And you have a nano. ME: I’m a [stuffs two donuts into mouth] loser. AARON: Here. Slash your wrists already! [hands me a dinner knife] ME: No way man.

And so ends my pathetic desire to get a new iPod just weeks after I bought me a nano.

But iPod-emoness aside, it was fun. I was finally able to meet some of the people whose blogs I’ve been reading for the last year or so. And it was surprising that some people who I thought didn’t know I existed went up to me and said that they actually read my blog. I salute them for their valor. I mean, after all the creepy stuff I posted here, I was thinking that being in the same room with me would scare some people away.

But I think they mostly wanted to see if I really had man boobs.

I also noticed that the most whispered line in the Parteeh was “Siya pala un!”

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