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asian blog awards 2006

I have no idea who nominated me for the Asian Blog Awards 2006, but I’m quite flattered; and quite amused I’m in the Best Asian BLGT Blog category. It sounds like a hamburger.

I don’t especially consider myself blgt, that is bi-lesbian-gay-transsexual (not that I’m about to get into a semantic discourse after two glasses of wine and a block of chocolate), and I’ve never thought of supernaut as a blog about these things. I write about trannys simply because that’s what I am; I write about dance because that’s what I do and as dancing has shaped me in no lesser way than being transsexual, that too is what I am; I write about Melbourne, Guangzhou, Zürich only because I’ve lived in these places – insofar as I am any nationality it is from the places I have lived.

I’m a bit confused by the implications of being placed in this category, as I have a very oblivious understanding of how I am perceived, both in the blog world and the real. Possibly though it’s not about me at all, and all about Mimi, Lady, and Harisu.

Anyway, there are lots of blogs worth checking out in all the categories, and if you really like, you can vote for me.

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asian blog awards

The results are in for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards. Go over and check it out, and see some new blogs written by people who know Asia and won’t feed you the same old mass-media line on every story, and make it a real place instead of some fantasy-land. I’ve discovered a whole heap of new blogs, especially in Central Asia which are now on my regular reading list. Altogether, there isn’t much point in watching tv or reading a newspaper anymore.

A big huge thanks to everyone who voted for me and gave me 2nd place in Best Mainland China Blog. I’m very flattered you think this is worth reading.

Congratulations to number 1 placed Dan Washburn at Shanghai Diaries, whose crazy trip around China last year was compulsive reading for me. That’s number 1 Best Mainland China Blog and Best Essayist.

And a big thank you to Simon for hosting the whole thing. Go and pleasure his wishlist.

So take the afternoon off and check out all the amazing stuff being written just for you across Asia.

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vote for meee!!! … again …

The party at Simon World for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards has barely finished and the results are still being counted, but just like every movie where the protagonist wakes up to find the day exactly as the previous one, reliving it over and over … it’s all on again.

Someone nominated me for Best Overseas Australian Blog in the 2005 Australian Blog Awards at Keks, and this time I’m really not worthy. So, vote for me, or … vote for the deranged Hong Kong fashion genius of Spirit Fingers (I mean she’s like eating chocolate every day for breakfast and not getting fat from it … or sick … or something) or vote for the host of the 2004 Asian Blog Awards and truly dedicated blogger Simon World or just randomly click on a link and bask in the endless beauty of blogs.

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asian blog awards

It’s time to vote over at Simon World for the best blog from pretty much every country from Pakistan to Indonesia to Korea and everywhere in-between. Most of them I’ve never even heard from, having my head buried in the triangle of Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. So after you’ve voted for me (come on, my ego needs fluffing), here are my favourites I think you should support:

From Hong Kong:

Glutter
EastSouthNorthWest

From Mainland China

Shanghai Diaries
supernaut (omfg! what a great site!!!)

From Taiwan

35togo
A Better Tomorrow

Asia’s Best Political Blog

china Digital News
Asian Labour News

If you’ve ever wanted to know about contemporary life, culture, politics, art in any of the countries across Asia, here’s where you will find it, weeks before it reaches your evening news.