The Nokia N82 Wireless Adventure – Super Fun!
April 8th, 2008
a few days ago i participated in a race that took 5 HOURS.
and it was mad fun :D
the Nokia N82 Wireless Adventure is a race where eight teams of 1 media member + 1 member of the public will compete to discover Malaysia’s ‘Soul of the Night’ in 5 hours, using only your smarts and the spankingly fabulous Nokia N82. all teams will be given a list of types of nighttime places to go (eg: a place to go drinking at night), and immediately you will have 5 hours to find these places and take pictures of each location and upload ‘em all onto the N82 site.
catch? these places have to be unique and obscure while still attractive; extra points for you if the judges have never heard of these places. the theme if after all, discovering the soul of the night :)
the 4 bloggers invited to participate: me, pop, kim, suanie. all pictures stolen off Facebook and other people :P
Suanie, Kimberlycun, Smashpop and myself were the 4 bloggers invited to form the media halves of our respective teams, and we were to be randomly paired up with one of the 8 finalists who signed up and auditioned for the race.
the 8 teams for the Nokia N82 Wireless Adventure
the night before the race, we were all called in for a briefing at the One World Hotel in 1 Utama, where we were introduced to the Nokia N82 and our fellow contestants. the Nokia N82 is DAMN NICE okay – it’s that phone from the ads where these people who have lost their way use Nokia Maps to find their way to wherever they need to go, and the directions are given out through a voice function? we were to use this Nokia Maps application to aid us in our race (key in any location and the phone gives you a direct route to that location from wherever you are, using A-GPS), and really, this maps application is but a teeny tiny fraction of just how awesome the phone is. i don’t think i’ve ever touched anything as techie as the N82.
best part? we all got to keep the phones :P teehee.
David and i – Team Pink! best team colour everrrrrr!
we were also introduced to our teammates at the briefing. my teammate was David Liow, who blogs at Narrowband.org, and is Shawn Yue’s twin :P sigh yalar i got the most lengchai partner, why am i so lucky. and we make the most awesome team, because while i’m familiar with nighttime places in KL and i can write, David is a total techie who’s a great photographer AND he’s familiar with the NSeries phones cos he uses the N95. hahahahaha! best team ever or what?
i am totally loving Nokia right now because they spoiled us silly during the race. we got to stay the night in these really nice deluxe rooms at the gorgeous One World Hotel, dinner was at 1U’s Delicious, lunch the next day was a flipping 4-course one at Bakerzin :D and did i mention that WE GOT TO KEEP THE N82???
*happy*
flag-off: ready set go!
so after that yummy lunch, we mingled around for a bit, took pictures, were interviewed by the media, did some last minute strategizing, and at 4.30 PM it was flag-off. we got our list of places on the screen, quickly downloaded it onto our phones, and off we went :D this was our list:
1. Discover a good place for live entertainment in the Klang Valley
2. Discover a good spot with a night-view of Kuala Lumpur
3. For games in the evening, where do people go?
4. Discover an eatery that serves great food
BONUS: 5. Discover a place for great evening shopping
i was feeling quite confident because David and i knew exactly which places to go after a quick 10-minute brainstorming in our designated car, which was a sleek Cefiro driven by the world’s nicest driver :P you see, the drivers for the race are not supposed to assist you in the directions. you cant just tell him, ‘we want to go to KLCC’, and expect him to take you there. all teams must give directions to their driver with the aid of Nokia Maps, and even if we give him wrong directions, he’s not supposed to correct us :P but our driver, Ibrahim, was sooooo nice because he said we didnt have to give him directions. hahaha. so all we had to do was sit in the backseat and bicker while our marshal and cameraman tried not to laugh at us :P
the race cars : 2 participants, 1 marshal, 1 cameraman and 1 driver
we made quite good time and covered all our 4 places AND our bonus location within 4 hours, but our problem was uploading the pictures and writing captions quickly. me being the perfectionist i am spent a lot of time agonizing over each and every caption of our 25 photos.. and then we spent even more time resizing the photos and bluetoothing it back and forth between our phones (only one phone gets the SIM card), and then uploading it onto the race’s website.
PANIC!!!!
we arrived back at 1 Utama about 20 minutes short of end-time. i thought with so much time, we would be the first to arrive back (and hence get to use the laptop to upload), but NO. we were like the SEVENTH team to arrive back, and all the laptops were already taken up. at this point, we’d only uploaded and captioned one out of our five albums. sei mou. as we were sitting on the floor frantically uploading all our remaining photos, my infamous stress/angsty mode was out full force oredi. one marshal tried to give me a plate of food and i smacked him away. another one asked me some question about something and i screeched back at him, ‘DONNO DONNO DONNO!!!’. hahahaha cracks me up just thinking about it. sorry ah, kind marshals who only wanted to help me :( sorry David Lian for being so angsty while you helped me connect my phone to the Wifi :( sorry David my partner for being so stressed and panicky in the car and at 1U :( you all still love me wan right?
my stressed face :P
by some stroke of miraculity (is this a word) and because one laptop was finally available, we managed to upload all our pictures in time. after deliberation by the panel of judges who are all experts in their respective fields, Suanie’s team was announced champion. congrats Suanie and Frankie!!! :D AND NO, SMASHPOP, YOUR TEAM WAS NOT RUNNER-UP *angsty*
so Suanie and Frankie won an all-expenses-paid trip to Hong Kong along with RM 1,500 cash each! the rest of us got Robinsons’ vouchers worth RM 500. i’m happy :D SHOES-TIME!!! does Robinsons not stock the best shoes.
it really was such a fun race :) it combined a lot of my favourite things – the city, food, arts, photography, writing, storytelling, friends, discussion and competition ;) i’m so glad i got to be a part of this. thank you David, Eevon, Text100 and Nokia for this amazingly fun experience!!
will put up all the pictures of our team’s 5 locations in the next post :) can guess where we went anot! give you one buck if you can!!
63 Comments Add your own
1. esther * | April 8th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
wow that is FUN FUN FUN!
and you get to keep the phone some more! ahh *jealous jealous*
:)
2. Anonymous | April 8th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
nice phone… I 1!!!!!!! congrats pau… dun b so stressed.. get old fast kekeke
3. grace | April 8th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
…u really looked very stress in that photo…>.
4. okthxbai | April 8th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
you got the phone AND you got the Robinson’s voucher?!?!?! *angsty* why like this! i am so jealous hahaha
5. skyler | April 8th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Hahahahaha you look so teeny tiny next to David hahahaha little munchkin.
Oh and I am jealous also =((((
6. miss p | April 8th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
everytime also give one buck one lol.
7. kennysia | April 8th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Your Pinkpau Stressed Look™ needs to be registered with the government because it’s your TRADEMARK! :P
Gotta love the Nokia Maps thingy. I got lost so many times when I travel, I wouldn’t make it back here if I didn’t have it.
8. lisan | April 8th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
w00h00ts. i got an n82 too~ lol. awesome people got awesome phones. :D
9. reallybites | April 8th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
hmph
10. narrowband | April 8th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I’d do it again and again and again haha. NOKIA pls call me again!!
P/s. Pair me up with Pinkpau again plsplsplspls
11. kei | April 8th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
i’m not gonna mention my jealousy because so many others already did hehhhhh
and yayayaa david damn lengchai =P
12. jocey | April 8th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
woww you and david made a great team. both are so good looking :D
13. joyce | April 9th, 2008 at 12:21 am
i want a free n82 too :(
14. TheRealAnonymous | April 9th, 2008 at 12:46 am
If you stayed at One World Hotel… and used the TV… then yeah, what you see on TV is what I do lorh. =p Oh, the internet at One World Hotel is also setup by my company… so I guess u finally got an idea of what I do huh? hehe…
And if u noticed, the welcome message on the main page when u turn on the TV is written by the hotel GM… Mr. Ho Hoi Sum! lol…
15. TheRealAnonymous | April 9th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Btw, here are my guesses:
1. Alexi’s
2. Cheras Mini Genting?
3. Tropicana Club
4. Hajime
5. Mont Kiara
16. Tricia | April 9th, 2008 at 3:10 am
N82 + Robinsons Voucher + FUN…I want also!! LOL~
David does look like shawn yue!! Except he is thinner than shawn..haha..you both look so cute in the squatting pic..lol~
17. WP | April 9th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Certainly looks like fun! :)
18. tze | April 9th, 2008 at 4:44 am
I LIKE YOUR SHOES FROM WHERE
19. ap | April 9th, 2008 at 5:22 am
omg DONNO DONNO DONNO!!!! super funny ok, why are u so mean
hahaha i know how it is though…. hmmm im tempted by the the N82, how about doing a review of its functions etc etc
20. Michelle | April 9th, 2008 at 6:54 am
That’s quite simple, the questions. But the driving part may be a wee bit trouble.
21. Sheryl | April 9th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Wow…FUN ler..jealousnya, but nevermind, at least got to read about it on you guys’ blogs! :)
22. smashpOp | April 9th, 2008 at 10:07 am
eh? no ah? ahahhahahahahah paiseh. okokokokokok wont say that when i blog it again later
anyways.. it was fun.. :D
23. sheon | April 9th, 2008 at 10:34 am
sob sob….. i need to pay for my own N-series (if i ever want one)..
but at least my friend lets me use his driver and beemer 530 if needed. :P
the pic #6 looks funny in every possible way. hahaahahhaa
24. KY | April 9th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Ahhhh I didn’t get to joinnnnnnn
25. sheon | April 9th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
1. Bintang Palace ….. hehehehehe
2. luna bar
3. games..err…. titiwangsa lake?
4. cant pinpoint one
BONUS: 5. petaling street
26. Simon Seow | April 9th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Jealous, got free phone. Anyone giving out free laptop?
KY you already owned a N82, it won’t be fair if you join.
27. Caryn | April 9th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
One Utama! :)
28. nyrac | April 9th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
hmm, how funny it is to be posting a comment under someone with the same name, just that i spell mine terbalik =.=||| nice to meet you, caryn khoo, caryn leong here.
looks like GREAT fun, and yea, david is so cute and shawn yue-ish. hehe. and of all the places that TheRealAnonymous mentioned, i’ve only been to Alexi’s… guess i’ll have to discover KL more eh, hehe.
29. RealGunners | April 9th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I have never liked Nokia because it’s like, everyone is using Nokia. It’s always been Motorola or Samsung for me, and now.. haihzz… FREE phone, FREE luxury hotel room, FREE good meals, FREE Robinson’s voucher, FREE Cefiro ride with driver… Malaysia got so big ‘kap la’ jump around the streets 1 meh??
30. Jean | April 9th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Can’t help but notice that you wore heels for a race! :)
31. mIcheLLe | April 9th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
if someone doesnt want her phone already hor….. heh heh.
sell me. :D:D:D:D
32. aronil | April 9th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Aiiiiyoo looks like so much fun, I missed the deadline to participate.. crap la could’ve gotten new phone .. hehehe good on you babes
33. thegeekinpink | April 9th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
So lucky. Why not give the N82 if someone guess all correct? HAHAHA… i know lah i know lah… cannot lah like this.
34. Eunice | April 9th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
oh JEALOUS, oh FUN, oh jealous jealous jealous! hahaha, looks like too much fun and too much FREE STUFF! zomgg all that lovely expensive free stuff! it’s even an oxymoron!
;)
i’m glad you had fun.
35. davidlian | April 9th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Thanks for racing. I’m glad you had fun. :)
36. Yappy | April 9th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Oh wow, I can feel the fun-ness from the post itself. Can see that you definitely have HEAPS of FUN in the race! :) Hehe… Even though it’s nothing to celebrate about but hi-fi gurl, I’m very bad when I’m stressed out too. My face will turn super super serious and my friends will stay far away in case I eat them alive. :p
Btw, is it coincidence or did you ask for your team colour to be pink? :)
37. Jonathan | April 9th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Perks, perks, perks.
Miss Perfectionist, you seemed to be so antsy for things to move on aye. You must have spent too much time at one place and forgot about time
“Oh, club. Lets go for a dance before we continue to the next question”
;-)
Oh, your marvellous random MSN moments, has spawned this
THIS
Muchos Gracias.
38. chm | April 9th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
damn… y do i always 4get 2 type my name? no2 post is mine… wats da market price 4 da phone arh?
39. foreverjas | April 10th, 2008 at 12:00 am
whoa. u’re indeed a busy girl ! hehe. pink!!!!!
40. pinkpau | April 10th, 2008 at 4:09 am
esther : yes we did :D
anonymous : sigh i know. i spend too much money on time-reversal creams as it is
grace : the picture does my stress level at the time no justice :P
okthxbai : there there :P join next year okie!
skyler : yalar he very tall :( some more i was wearing heels in that photo!
miss p : good incentive mah!
kennysia : why you say like this!! how much did nokia pay you!!
lisan : indeedy :D
reallybites : *patpat
narrowband : i want to be paired up with narrowband again oso!!!!
kei : haha dont say so loud. his comment just above yours. eh why you so fickle wan! stick to your chad michael murray twin!
jocey : hahahahahaha thank you :D what a compliment!
joyce : next year you join, then you can get a nicer newer phone than the n82 !
therealanon : OH MY GOD you did the tv system??? HAHA i was just marveling at it when i went in! it had my NAME on it huahuahua i was damn impressed. then i kept switching all the movie categories until i got bored. hah! i finally understand what your job is :D eh….. i didnt understand his name until you said it like that. LOL! damn observant lah u
therealanon : wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong! even though number 2 is quite close. eh but mont kiara.. what a good suggestion for shopping! did you mean the flea market?
tricia : you have no idea how stressed we were ok. i wanted to cry oredi at that point in time :P
wp : oh it was!
tze : nike! or do you mean the heels? if so then from nine west!
ap : i lazy :P and i’m not techy enough to know how to use all the functions……..
michelle : it’s not simple ok :) you need to think of places that people dont know about, yet is still interesting and ‘malaysian’
sheryl : there is always next year :D
smashpop : the real runner up team damn awesome wan ok :( dont play play :(
sheon : why you bully your friend like this!
ky : dont make noise, n82 ambassador
sheon : 1. WTF 2. wrong! but we thought about it. 3. wrong! 4. – 5. why you so boring wan!! petaling street is like the number one place to avoid cos it’s so overrated :P
simon : i osowan free laptop
caryn : yes!
nyrac : ahhh come we shall discover KL together :D it’s something i cant get enough of
realgunners : what is kap la?
jean : eh no lah hahahhaa that was during the briefing :P if you look at the race-day pictures, i was wearing my turquoise nikes :) but during the briefing lots of people looked at my feet in horror and went “OMG ARE YOU WEARING THAT TOMORROW”!
michelle : you can have the sony ericsson cos it takes nice photos :D ask budiey!!
aronil : next year next year!
thegeekinpink : no one will be able to guess anyway :P what are the odds!!
eunice : i’m glad too :D yaaaa free stuff, that makes ANYONE happy, yes :D
davidlian : can we do it again!!!!
yappy : haha we probably would not work very well in a team then. we’d just stress each other out :P i work best with people like david (my partner), who are calm in moments of tension and who also know how to calm me down effectively. haha the color was a coincidence!! i was so happy :D
jonathan : that’s not too far off from the truth actually :P we spent a lot of time looking at art when we should have been moving on, and also chatting with people we met at the locations. hahaha your shit experiment is funny. why never credit me!! everyone credits me!!
chm : my bro told me 2k
foreverjas : haha i have an off day tomoro where i can do absolutely nothing but sleep :D
41. jun | April 10th, 2008 at 4:19 am
This is so unfair!!! I also wan N82! So Zealous now…
42. tze | April 10th, 2008 at 8:10 am
wtf why would i like nike shoes *offended
43. sheon | April 10th, 2008 at 8:58 am
sigh…. quaintly.net has officially rated me as boring…….my social life is doomed!!! argh!!!! gals….dont let me date you!!!
evening shopping mah……which means you only get to shop there in the evenings…..the only place that comes to my mind is petaling street lor…. :(
i’ll just wait for your list lar then…. :P
44. cc | April 10th, 2008 at 11:16 am
free phone… wow… lucky you!
45. nyrac | April 10th, 2008 at 11:27 am
pinkpau: ahh, let’s do so sometime before august! hehe. and omg u duno wats a “kap la”? hmm… obviously your cantonese vocab is not that good huh, hehe. kap la comes from the phrase “where got such a big kap la jumping all over the streets”, which loosely means “mana ada such easy gain/easy money/free stuff for you, there must be something fishy about it”. kap la should be some kind of amphibian, if i’m not mistaken. correct me if i’m wrong, anyone.
46. sheon | April 10th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
nyrac: are you sure? …..
47. TheRealAnonymous | April 10th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Yeah, COOL LEH what my company is doin! Its the same thing I implement in all the other client hotels ler. =) Glad to hear good remarks on it. Can surf net on the TV oso u know? hehe… If u told me earlier u goin there I could reveal some ’secrets’ to you. LoL…
Of coz’ observant towards his name lah, coz’ he’s not a very happy man for someone with his name! LoL…
No.2 is close means must be the other place in Cheras also up the hill where got mamak and restaurants wan lar. =p Correct ah?
And yeah, I meant the flea market. I personally prefer that flea market over the curve’s one somehow… =)
48. nyrac | April 10th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
sheon: hmm, that’s what my conception of it has always been. whats your two cents?
49. Neo | April 10th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Cher… you and I could have won this! And off we go to Hong Kong!
50. sheon | April 10th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
nyrac: actually i’ve never heard of that cantonese slang before. however, “kap pa” got lar…it means clams in hokkien. it could be used in that context also i suppose.. :)
51. Michelle | April 10th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
BTW, got a question, have you been to Camberwell?
52. nyrac | April 10th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
http://hope-aiesecupm.blogspot.com/
pink, and anyone else nice enough to click on that link, are you interested? even though i’m not a upm student myself (i’m proud to proclaim that i’m from ukm), i think this should be a rather meaningful event, care to participate, anyone?
53. Mindy | April 10th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
1. Borneo sth sth at Sunway .. Borneo live band or sth like that.
2. Ampang Lookout Point!!! Where you can see the whole of KL!
3. No idea on the games stuffs but, urgh, .. okay no idea still.
4. Ming Tian at ss24 PJ!? haha
5. … Evening shopping would be the whole load of complexes where The Curve is located? Is it called Mutiara Damansara or sth like that =P
54. chm | April 10th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
anti-aging creams? where 2 find orh? see u made the news 2day… no pic of u though…. sadness …… im in tunku abdul rahman college n we will b organizing a kl tour… can any1 gif ideas? pls dun include those dat require one 2 b 18+ pls.. if dun haf dat small point there i will go tarik everyone 2 zouk lol.. i jus wanna hear ideas.. im nt even in da comitee nor am i even affiliated wif em but jus wanna hear suggestions plsplsprettypls?
55. GnomeFan | April 10th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
wah..
you get to keep the phone issit?
so nice of nokia..
hmm..
where can i get a phone for running around town for 5 hours??
hehe
where can you sign up for THAT?!! ;p
56. Kevin | April 11th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Thought you said you’re telling where you went in this post? =P , post up the pics as well la haha
57. RealGunners | April 11th, 2008 at 11:29 am
when u say Cheras Mini Genting, it’s the old place near Yulek (known as Taman Bukit Permai) which has become obsolete. THE place to be nowadays is something called Lookout Point, which in on top of Bukit Ehsan @k@ Bukit Langat as some might call bcz the hill pass connects to Hulu Langat. Anyway, it’s so famous that I doubt the judges would not know about it, won’t be a good choice.
About the ‘kap la’ thingy, haih, find some cantonese speaking friends, ask them about ‘gam dai jek kap la chui gai tiu meh??’ :D
i think kap la translates to flea, if i’m not mistaken, hence the flea market, where u might be able to get bargain goods :D
58. tom | April 11th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
why only give one buck for each guess wan??? :P
59. Kristine | April 12th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Is no.2 Look out point? Is it? Is it?! xD Do i really win one buck ?( if i got it right lar…=/ ) cash ar?? =P
60. Jia | April 14th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Nice way to promote N82 through an adventure…Good going!
61. kong | April 20th, 2008 at 11:22 am
hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi
62. azizie | June 12th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
gooooooooooood
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