Celcom Blackberry Night @ Boulevard
Monday, August 18, 2008 at 11:42AM Was invited to go attend the Celcom Blackberry Night @ Boulevard via Facebook. I guess they kinda spammed everyone and anyone.
In any case the event started at 7.00pm I arrived at 8.30pm as I was at home watching the badminton match between China and Indonesia, mixed doubles for the Bronze medal. What an intense match. If people told me it was for gold, I would believe it.
I went to Boulevard to take some pictures and to check out the new Blackberry offerings from Celcom. Sadly I didn't see anything relating to it except a few banners. Halfway thru the programs (singing) the organisers introduced the 3 Blackberry devices. 3 promoters (models) were showing off the phones on stage which was about 2 meters high. And the crowed was a good 10 meters away. The gals did come down from the stage, but they were kind of disoriented on what they were suppose to do.
I guess it would be good to at least have a people to give out brochures and details of the phones. Not just 3 sets at 915pm or something. There should be more sets available for more touch n feel.
Anyways, it was also a bloggers meet thingy, so a blogger, Irene was called to stage for a quick interview on her opinions and stuff. She was selected because she was the first person to register. Fair enough. Then I was the second third person who got called to the stage. (the second was a guy who did ilovekuching.com) I was stumped. Cos I didn't register. Sure I had a blog, (he quoted cybreed.blogspot.com which I will put to rest soon enough). But I went as a amateur photographer, to learn to shoot under stage and funky lighting. So it caught me off guard.
Well I'll finish off this post later. I need to go do an interview over lunch. I have an empty position to fill in my company. Anyone looking for a full time job?
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*corrections made for spelling errors and updated information*
Gerald
In any case here is my "writeup" on the Celcom Blackberry Night at Boulevard which happened last night (17th August 2008).
+scene from the tent+
+at the edge of the tent+
As you can see, there were a lot of space and no crowd. Which is good I guess, cos they had some fireworks near the edge of the platform. I wonder if they fired it. Cos I left by around 1030 pm for coffee with Derbe.
+live video feed+
I like this, it was a nice touch. Good work.
As you have read in the previous post, it was a bloggers meet as well. So the bloggers were able to post stuff online at the event, I dont have much details on this as I arrived later.
+Irene from creativebitchin.blogspot.com doing her thing+
+fireworks!, is that a sofa on the stage?+
+blackberry ladies+
Somehow, to me, their dressing does not really match the phones, as we all know blackberry phones are all about business! Then again maybe they have a new target market. The young and the hip, who needs instant messaging rather than instant push email capabilities. Well you never know, as Derby said, their dressing were just for eye candy, for pervy guys.
+Bloggers checking out the phone on TV+
+Bloggers checking out the phone in real life+
After the model went back stage, Single Track Mind came out and gave a powerful performance. Singing his old songs, and some new tunes too
All in all it was a decent nite out, I would give the organisers a rating, something I have not tried before.
6 starts of 10, where 10 is positive experience and 1 being negative one. It was suppose to be four points, but one extra point for having STM there, and another one point for the live video feed.
Few areas of concern (to me):
- There were no actual booths to showcase the Blackberry phones.
- No brochures (as far as I know) were provided for the general public.
- MC announced the price, but I cant recall, can you(if you were there)?
- There were only three live units and was held by the models.
- Those who were interested could not try out the phones longer as they dont want to be rude and hog the phones.
- Kuching Bloggers were kind of lost of their role last night. They were invited, they came so at least give them an assignment to do. Or some goodies. It would make them feel more appreciated.
- The theme was Celcom Blackberry, so we saw the blackberry phones being paraded, what happened to Celcom ? More like the normal banditogether function.
- Calling me up to stage :-P tat was not nice.
So thats my first writeup for my new blog.
Whew.
Nite!
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Reader Comments (3)
it was still fun and you got a cute green froggy toy in exchange, so all good : )
If you put it THAT way... will post pictures later when I have processed them :D
lol You still got something in exchange haha.. Can't wait any longer.. chao lo.. :P I haven update on tis ^^" haha