Today is the most hectic day of my new job.  According to Ken, it is his most hectic day as well after 2 years in the company.  I attended four separate events.  Fortunately, two are in the same building, one within walking distance and another one about 10 minutes drive.

I picked up ken at about 9.45am.

First stop: Time Square Hotel
Since Canon and Kaspersky events are at Time Square, we attended both, but intend to spend more time at Canon because Canon is obviously a more important one and it has more stuff for me to write on the event..  We went to register at Kapersky’s booth and got a media kit, which is usual.  Took some pictures and listened to the talk on antivirus and computer securities. 

We left the event before it ended and went to Canon.  Registered our names and found a place to sit. The event started as we’ve expected.  As we were sitting down, the speaker said “Thanks to all media partners for coming.”, and everyone stood up! We expected that it has started but never expected it to start ON TIME.  (Events never start on time!).  So we kind of missed the Canon event.  I took some photos of the dancers and chit chatted with my colleague that came earlier.

We sat down, took a look at the media kit from Kapersky and we found a 2GB pendrive (with an antivirus software, with an activation code) , a shirt, 2 pens, a full version of Kapersky’s antivirus!  Luckily we went for that event.  Canon gave us a towel! Why a towel? I don’t know.  Maybe it’s for us to wipe of the drool from the new products that were launched, something that Ken and I have no idea of.

Canon’s PR took us to the hotel’s restaurant and had buffet lunch at 12pm.  Since our next event will only start at 2pm.  We ate slowly and talked a lot.  At about 1.20pm, we walked over to Low Yat plaza since it’s still early and the next venue is just next door, at Federal Hotel. 

Second stop: Federal Hotel
Went up to Federal Hotel at 2pm and registered, got our goodie bag.  It has a long sleeve shirt, a necklace, a keychain and a paper cup!  This event is by New Era, a games distributor in Malaysia.  I thought there were going to give out free games.  They were just previewing some of the new games on a projector and we were expected to sit through 2 hours and watch the trailers!  Since Ken and I have another event to attend at 3.30pm, we left at about 3.15pm.

Last Stop: Check my post tomorrow
The last event was HP’s Big Bang event.  It’s an annual HP event where they invite all the press to have fun and launch a bunch of their products.

I will not continue now, want to give you guys a suspense.  All I can say is that HP’s events are my official “have-to-go” events.  Every thing was great.  I am sorry, let me rephrase.  EVERY THING WAS SUPER DUPER FREAKING OUT OF THE WORLD OH MY GOD GREAT!

Took the KLIA Ekspress this morning and got to KLIA at about 10.30am.  Met with the other medias and the PR people there.  Boarded the plane at 11.30am and the plane took off at 11.50am.

The lunch at Intel, I think it was prepared by the PR, was like prison food.  I thought we would have at least some steaks or chops, but the food was bland.  I couldn’t finish it.

The press conference was less than 1 hour.  The we were informed that our flight will be delayed for more than 1 hour.  Since Intel and the airport was near and we have already pre-checked in, we wanted to go walk around in one of the new shopping malls in Penang, Queensbay Mall. 

The driver came, PR told him if we could go to Queensbay Mall, he said he has another assignment after dropping us off.  So no choice, have to wait at the airport until we board.

So we went to the airport directly, took a look at the TV thingy that shows the flight information (what do you call those things anyway) and to our horror, our flight will leave in 15 minutes.  So we rushed to the gate and luckily, no one boarded the plane yet, typical Malaysian timing.  As a result, we didn’t miss our flight back to KL.  Luckily we didn’t go to the mall!

I can’t remember the last time I went to Penang.  This time, it’s nothing more either.  Got to the Penang Airport, went into van, go to Intel, have lunch, attend press conference, went back to the airport, fly back to KL.  That’s it.

Went to the HP event right after I reached home.  It was a dinner event, nothing formal and it was less than 5 minutes from my house.  Mingled a bit with the people there, had great food.  There was a lucky draw too, but I don’t have a name card to be drawn. 

From the words I’ve heard, HP organizes the best events in town.  There is another HP event this Thursday, I’ll see if I can make it.

Oh yeah, I sold my Sony DSC-H5 last night.  Planning to get a Canon EOS 400D but it’s still far from what I can afford right now.  At the mean time, I’ll “borrow” my company’s camera until I get the 400D. 

I am going to Penang tomorrow.  It’ll be my first official “overseas” trip.  The plane will be flying over the sea, hence overseas, Ken’s idea.

it’s an Intel event and I hope that they have great free gifts!

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