[...] before.  I did some checking on my website and guess what?  One year ago, on this day, I was wearing the media pass for this event, invited by Nokia!  It’s been a year already?  And neither did I wake up on a Thursday morning thinking that [...]

[...] Previously, I was with the Nokia N-Gage development team and have checked out some of their upcoming N-Gage hits.  Last evening, I had the opportunity to go hands-on with some of their upcoming titles.  And how video games have evolved, how they have not.  As I was staring at the video screens, looking at how two players battle each other in the fighting game “One”, I had flashbacks of my University days in UK, when I often hang out at the social center, admired at how my best mate flair when he played the “Street Fighter” and the “Mortal Kombat” at the arcade video stations.  He is a physicist, and I often joked that the knowledge of quantum physics must have got him far to the games.  I am a computer scientist, and I couldn’t even beat the computer character in those arcade video stations. [...]

[...] I couldn’t attend the press conference during the day due to work commitment.  But the Nokia team is kind enough to give me a 1-hour personal demonstration on the upcoming Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.  Again, I tried to distract them and see if I could slip one into my pocket.  Again, I failed (like the last time). [...]

This event is the first of the kind for me (in terms of context) and I was too busy trying to socialize with the crowd, doing ‘interviews’ that I have completely forgotten to take some pictures of those hot Nokia girls! Damn … lol.

You should have snapped a pic of the Nokia girl!

[...] addition, be sure to read this write-up from Wilfrid Wong, who was able to play Spore (as well as ONE) at the Games Convention Asia, and produced a hands-on [...]