Just finished watching The Disaster Movie. Turned out to be a real disaster though.. Anyway about two weeks back, I attended the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music Launch held in Pavilion KL. To be precise, it was on the 9th of January.
Both Jason & Wilson have been telling me about the launch that I must not miss it. These two chaps are really true symbian lovers. To be honest, I have actually seen, touched and played with the unreleased unit of 5800XPM whom belonged to Henry the last time during the Ovi Sharing session in iZZi Damansara. Think I have forgotten to blog about that, pardon me.
Anyways, the launch was made to public and it was held at the foyer of Pavilion KL. Nokia set up an amazingly huge stage in the middle the main entrance which of course drew gallons and gallons of crowd made up of mostly shoppers, curious passerbys and of course avid Nokia fan who were anticipatingly waiting for the official launch of 5800XPM in Malaysia. The event started off with a massive big bang from behind the curtains which showcased an awesome street music concept just like The Stomp by a buncha Singaporeans.
Mr Vlasta Berka, the GM of Nokia Malaysia gave an interesting speech after the brief intro from the street performers. I was amused the fact he climbed up to the top of the stage to give his talk and ultimately launch the release of the 5800XPM in Malaysia. During and after his speech, I could dozens of people holding a 5800 XPM. Some are brand new in the box, some are already parading it while the rest are in the midst of purchasing it.
Another cool performance by these rappers are, whom are also from Singapore if I remember correctly. Again if you asked, what happened to the Malaysians? I don’t know either cos I thought our music industry is doing good. But apart from that this duo really reminds me of Too Phat, and really I’d say they’re pretty good.
Vlasta stopped by the La Bodega to meet and greet with us after their official media press, caught a pic of him and Jason – thumbs up to the first Nokia touchscreen phone!
The food served were rather scrumptious, especially this Seafood Platter – I had no idea what’s the name of the dish though. There were also various small bites like chicken wings, onion rings, sauteed mushrooms etc with free flow of drinks.
[L-R: Adrian, Jason, Hazel, Glen, Poor Chap]
A group picture taken of everyone with a Nokia 5800, except for that poor lost chap at the right end who had to keep his hands safely in the pockets and parade his wide smile. : )
[L-R: Glen, Adrian, Jason and Wilson]
I managed to catch up with Glen again, after the last encounter in iZZi. He’s a really really nice low profile guy but little did we know he is actually the Product Manager of Nokia. Also there were Wilson and Adrian whom I got to know earlier from Jason and we were all hanging out having our little geek chat about gadgets and of course the 5800XPM! Haha… To be honest, after the launch I was really tempted to buy the phone even until today. But I had no excuse to get rid of my 7-months N95 8GB which I purchased at a painful price of RM2k. I’ll keep out an eye for it one day, one day!
Lastly, thanks to Smashpop and Eevon from Text100 who called me up. That’s bout it, I gotto pack my bag and go to bed. Flying off to Kuching tmr, till then.
Yee Sang! 
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