AsiaOne caps its second theme for the 'This Is Me' vodcast/ podcast contest by announcing the winners for the topic - My Friends.
And it seems they are getting younger.
Animal-lovers Amelia (left) and Robyn (right) with their iPod.
Amelia Ho and her friends Hannah and Robyn, all three of them only 13 years of age, won themselves a 30GB Apple iPod for their sincere and refreshing efforts.
Says the AsiaOne reader of her winning entry: "It was the title that gave me inspiration. I just thought we could do something meaningful together.
"We felt like doing something that would show our crazy moments and voluntary work," added the student as she described her vodcast, which featured the three girls spending time together and helping out at an animal shelter.
An active animal-lover, Amelia says that she frequents 'Mutts and Mittens', the animal shelter at Pasir Ris 'every week', to help and hang out. She has picked up some stray cats and boarded them at the shelter, counting them as her own.
As for the prize they won, what are three girls going to do with one iPod?
Being ever the animal-lover, Amelia says she and her friends intend to sell the prize and donate the proceeds to 'animal organisations'.
Andy Chu, posing with his Nano prize.
On the podcast front, Andy Chu, 14, also a student, won it in a joint effort with his friend and classmate, Chia Zhao Yan.
Theirs was a humorous clip about two Ah Bengs learning English.
Andy explains: "I wanted to help my friends, who are all Ah Bengs, improve their English".
Says Chia Zhao Yan: "Almost everyone in Singapore speaks broken English, even me!"
The boys have yet to present the clip to any of their friends yet but say their teacher has heard it.
The Peicai Secondary School students say they got to know about the contest through their Infocomm teacher.
On their win, Andy says he is "very surprised", as he wasn't expecting it. He and Zhao Yan made the light-hearted and colloquial podcast in the name of fun. They have yet to decide on how to share the prize.
In fact, when told about the 4GB Apple iPod Nano prize, Andy quizzically probed: "What's a nano?"
The AsiaOne 'This Is Me' contest continues its run with the current theme 'My Space'. This is the third theme in a series of four.
Winners for the podcast and vodcast category of each theme automatically qualify for a viewers' choice voting at the end of the entire contest, where AsiaOne readers will play judge and decide which is the overall best podcast and vodcast.
Non-winners will also stand a chance as long as their entries are picked to be featured on the Gallery Page.
The two ultimate winners will walk away with prizes...again. This time an Apple MacBook each.
Voters also get a piece of the action. Two lucky voters who make correct decisions on the eventual winners in October will also win an Apple MacBook each.
All in all, it's a pretty easy way to stock up on Apple products.
