The ultimate mobile lifestyle event of the year. Well, that’s what the organizers promoting the event though. The main attraction for the crowds are the expo which pretty much similar like Pikom’s PC Fairs that have been around for years while this GoMobile is of course centered on mobile phones (handphones or cellphones, whichever you prefer). I was there for all events of GoMobile this year. Starting with the conference, 2nd Asia Pacific mLearning & Edutainment Global Summit, which then led to the night of Mobile World Star Awards & Gala Dinner. Finally, the expo itself. The events were held from 20th to 23rd of November at PWTC in Kuala Lumpur.

For the conference, it was MDeC who sponsored me for such expensive event. Yeah, a person has to pay RM 935 to attend just to listen the talks. If it wasn’t free, I believe I won’t pay such large sum of money just for talks. While the gala dinner, I was there under UTeM. Same applied for expo as UTeM had some booths for some exhibition with their projects and stuffs.

There’s nothing much to say about my experience with the conference and stuffs as it might be filled with boring lectural contents that may lead to boredomness. On contrary with that sentence, I actually bought something nice at nice price.

Not really a brand new mobile phone but I bought it for RM 2199 from HTC booth (market price usually at 2399). Touch screen with stylus plus QWERTY keypad. Isn’t that fun? It runs on Windows Mobile 6.1, easy to synchronize with any Windows PC and easy settings. At 400 Mhz, it’s quite slow compared to new phones. It does feel a little bit laggy on Internet Explorer, especially when browsing LowYat.NET’s forum as you might know there are many images there when opening a thread. Above all, it’s still a nice little gadget and I still feel awkward using stylus to write SMSes to friends. Not for long though, I hope. ^_^

That’s where I live for all 4 days (3 days for the events). The condominium is available for rent and also providing other stuffs. They allocated us with 4 rooms and the place is very nice. Not bad for RM 500 per night. There were 12 people of us. So, it’s quite reasonable. Btw, on the gala dinner night, there were also some artists performing, as in singing, like Reshmonu and others. One that attracted me the most was this young girl named Marsya. When her name was announced, I was thinking about that Marsha AF girl as the name pronounced similar. But this Marsya was from Indonesia. After she done singing, she went from table to table saying ‘Hi’ or something like that but she didn’t approach the table that my friends and I were eating. A bit sad. But, well, who really cares and I didn’t even know her much at that time.

On the day after at the expo, we set up our booth for UTeM and started promoting (more like being a PR rather than selling stuffs). On several intervals, I usually lurking around the expo to look for good deals (like my newly bought TyTN II). At one moment, I walked past a booth of a new brand for mobile phones in town which is MicXon. A promoter girl smiled and gave me a pamphlet. I kindly received the pamphlet and started looking at it. To my surprise, the pamphlet was about that Marsya girl who performed last night. To double the surprise effect, the girl who gave me the pamphlet just now was Marsya herself!

I was wondering who was she as I am not that familiar with Indonesian artists. Later I found out who she was after using Uncle Google. She was a finalist of Indonesian Idol 2007. Sixteen years old. While she didn’t win the competition, she’s one talented singer as she’s able to survive the elimination moments before finally being purged out. If people really care about her look, she might survived and win, right? But well, maybe there were more good looking finalists than her lol.

Well, that’s all. I might be going to Johor later. Until we meet again.

Edit: Not going to Johor btw.