May I have the envelope please... 奥斯卡 Àosīkǎ (Oscars!!) Winners!
amber
February 28, 2008, 02:51 AM posted in General Discussion
May I have the envelope please!! The winners to the First Annual ChinesePod Oscars are:
* Best Lesson - Abducted by Aliens * Best Comedy - Parking Lot Rage * Best Drama - Jizhou Mental Breakdown * Best Lesson Photo - Are you OK? * Best Supporting User - Henning * Best Lesson Intro - What meat is this? * Best User Avatar - sparechange * Best Series - Zhang Liang and Lili * Best ChinesePod Extras Show - The 连 . . .都 (lián . . . dōu) Qing Wen episode * Best User Post - Bazza: "You know you're addicted to learning Chinese when..." Thanks for everyone's votes! Here's to another great year of learning Chinese!! We never could have done it without each other! ...(fade in music to get long-winded speech giver off the stage...)
cassielin
March 17, 2008, 02:18 PMHi Bazza and Rich Thank you for considering me as the best supporting user. I will keep on trying my best!^_^ For me, i will consider myself as the best newbie最佳新人 here in Chinesepod community.^_^ Anyway, thanks to Chinesepod group that supply us such a good platform to communicate and learn from each other. Let's work hard and study hard together in this year. Go 2008! Go Poddies!
jennyzhu
February 28, 2008, 04:07 AMNo post parties?
sparechange
February 28, 2008, 04:11 AM你们都太过奖了！ I'd like to give a shout-out to Bazza (at least I think it was Bazza), who started a conversation about favorite characters several months ago. I chose 龜. The rest is history. I'd also like to thank azerdocmom, for talking me down from the ledge every time I think about jumping. ;-) And, of course, all the CPod staff and user community. With your help, I will someday be able to use 了 correctly in a sentence. Jenny: I'll be having my party at work tomorrow, where I'll spend half the day telling everyone I won an Oscar.
TaiPan
February 28, 2008, 04:13 AMHenning, if your acceptance speech is more than 30 words, I'm cutting you off with music.
henning
February 28, 2008, 04:57 AMWow! I am sitting in a hotel room in Munich right now with only limited time at my hand, an instable Internet connection, and being handicaped by a slight Hofbräuhaus-conference-dinner aftermath. I feel utterly dumbstruck as I did not at all expect or deserve this. There are so many outstanding users here - I got far more from the community than I gave. But I already had my wife book a 烤鸭 restaurant in Beijing on Sunday to celebrate the Oscar (well, I would have gone anyway). TaiPan: I bet your avatar was nominated, too, but was found to be too controversial in the end. :P
calkins
February 28, 2008, 06:08 AMHenning..."Character Points"..."Grammar Points"...etc. etc. etc. Your contributions are incredible and self-less. Thank you and congratulations! Congrats to everyone else as well. 恭喜恭喜 !!
bazza
February 28, 2008, 06:53 AMOops I didn't get around to submitting my votes I thought we had a bit more time.
rich
February 28, 2008, 02:47 PMyou still won Bazza, no need to vote for your own post... haha. Congratulations to you all!!!
bazza
February 28, 2008, 07:21 PMI was going to vote for Taipan's 'how many Chinesepod users does it take to change a lightbulb?' and casie as best supporting user. ;)
tvan
February 28, 2008, 03:57 AMBazza, Henning, and Sparechange, congrats, all well deserved. Maybe you should stick a "virtual statue" next to their avatars. Will we get any the tear-soaked "thank you Mom" acceptance speeches?
rich
February 29, 2008, 02:25 PMWell, Casie is always best supporting actress. :P
tsunst
February 29, 2008, 02:49 PMcongrats to the winners, your contributions enrich the Cpod experience and make this virtual China we have here here a little more real! As with the winners of the movie oscars, these statuettes mostly go abroad - to Germany(Henning), UK(Bazza), USA(Clay and John),Amber(Canada), Sparechange(?) Does that make Jenny the only home-grown winner?
sparechange
February 29, 2008, 05:50 PM...sparechange(USA) :-)
rsmith91
February 29, 2008, 06:43 PMCongratulations everyone, especially Henning, Bazza and Sparechange. Thanks also to Lunetta for thinking of the Oscar idea in the first place!
wolson
March 01, 2008, 01:49 AMCongrats to all, particularly to Baz, Henning & Amber. It is you guys that make this site fun!
lunetta
March 01, 2008, 09:00 AMThanks, but you give me more credit than I actually deserve. I believe it was actually Lustchina who came up with the idea. I'm just the crazy gal who couldn't live without Cpod for a week. :-)
mandomikey
March 16, 2008, 03:46 PMMaybe next year have the winners announced in a Dear Amber episode?? Just disovered this post now nearly 3 weeks after the point. I really like the concept, and I think its a fun way to reflect back on the finest moments that Chinespod and its user community have provided.
wei1xiao4
March 17, 2008, 12:39 PMCongratulations to all the winners. You help make Chinese even more enjoyable through your contributions to Chinesepod. We applaud your efforts!
johnb
February 28, 2008, 10:37 PMGah, I was robbed! How's 连。。。都 going to help you when you're facing the squatter that God forgot?! :) Congrats, everyone!
azerdocmom
February 28, 2008, 03:08 AMWow! Awesome! Really cool ! Congrats, Henning, Sparechange and Bazza! Woo-hoo! Very deserving winners in all categories !