I came back to Malaysia this afternoon after a 4 and a half hour plane ride.  The plane was very empty and I onlyhave to share the four seater row with Huei. Anyway, I slept throughout the journey, waking up only for the brunch.  I wanted to finish Watchman that I missed on the way to Taipei but I couldn’t because I was just too tired and can’t be bothered on what happened to it.

I reached home at about 3pm and planned to go for the HTC Magic and Nokia N97 launch, which are back to back and near to each other.  I set my alarm to ring at 15 minutes before 5pm (HTC starts at 5.30pm) but little did I know that I’ve set it to 4.45am.  I woke up at 6.30pm and was just too tired to go to Mandarin Oriental for Nokia N97 (which starts at 7pm).  I continued my slumber and woke up at about 11.30pm.

Well after nearly 4 days of hardwork at Taipei, what what the outcome? I’ll blog this slowly, in a few parts.  Let’s go on with the happy stuff first – press gifts.

Like what I mentioned a few days back, this edition of Computex was really toned down.  There were not many visitors and booths were considerably smaller as compared to last year.  The gifts were also a little “off”.  Last year my best gift was the XFX casino chips, together with numerous flash drives.  This year, I got ONE flash drive, an 8GB one from Adata, which comes with a cute panda shaped enclosure.

Anyway, these are all my gifts from Computex 2009 (Forgive my unmade bed):

The most prominent one you see ther eis the Thermaltake hammer baloon thingy.  I got one with MSI’s livery last year, together with a Gigabyte hand and a Gigabyte zepplin.  This year, I have to fight for one, literally.  

Next to the Thermaltake hammer is a Kingmax bag that can be shrunk into the size you see above.

Items on the top row are as follows:

Two Taiwan Excellence combination locks, two Enermax cable ties, notebook cooler balls from NU and MSI, Kingston stress ball, NVIDIA tabletop pen/namecard holder, a deck of PNY poker cards, Liteon sticky pad, Kingston mobilephone wrist lanyard, Adata 8GB pendrive in the panda.

The bottom row consists of an actual NVIDIA GPU enclosed in a plastic case by Galaxy, pens from Kingmax, Computex, Arcsoft and Liteon, a ball from Opera, MSI cable management thingy, Nokia battery from Kingmax, LED torchlight from Kingmax, fridge magnets from Liteon and a 2009 diary from Liteon.

That’s all I got.  You guys might think that this is a lot but you should’ve seen what I got last year. Some of these stuff I really had to work for it, talking to the marketing people, explaining what can the magazine do for them and stuff like that. Last year, they just came and gave us stuff.

Oh yeah, the gashapons I bought at Shlin night market.

The Doramon set:

The I-don’t-know-what-anime-is-this-but-I’ve-seen-before Keroro Gunso set:

These are all original ones and it cost NT700 for it (NT300 for Doraemon set and NT400 for Keroro Gunso set).  Aparently these sets are not easy to get here in Malaysia and getting one whole set will mean that you have to practically spend all your money on the Gashapon machine.  Oh well…