the maxis venus affair
Last Friday I took the day off from work. Was supposed to relax and chill a bit before the Nokia Wireless Adventure II the next day, but ended up going to KLCC to check out the Maxis Venus Affair event.
It was my first time to the KLCC Maxis Centre. To my friends and readers of this blog, Malaysians or otherwise, you know that when you look at photos of the Petronas Twin Towers and you’d sometimes see a shorter building on the side? Well, I wuz there 
(I’d also been on the Skybridge twice — that’s two times more than most of you! )
The Maxis Venus Affair was actually just a corner at one end of the service centre. They decorated the corner using pink and white stuff, so it comes off looking very feminine and maybe a bit girly. I don’t know why I was surprised that a lot of men were hanging out at the corner, checking out the products and services offered; I suppose it is time that I shed the association of pink = solely female (even though I don’t get very excited by the colour, so I guess I am not solely female?) Need to update my neurons.
Entrance to the Maxis Venus Affair
People
I didn’t sign up for anything, but using my wily ways, I managed to wrangle a free hand massage from AsterSpring.
I look like the cat who just ate the free hand massage
During the event which was held for a few days in KLCC and Pavilion, they were offering lots of free goodies to new customers who sign up for the ‘Maxis USB Modem’. I am assuming that the USB modem that they got came bundled with Maxis broadband 
Among the free gifts were a limited edition trinket box (which was rather nice, as I have one in my hands now thanks to my wily ways), a USB modem pouch (to handily fit in your new USB modem), a free makeover or hand massage from AsterSpring (I am assuming AsterSpring is teh femes?), a gift pack worth RM148 including a RM100 cash voucher from AsterSpring and Averine makeup, photo printout(s) from Canon (using the Selphy) and a copy of Cleo or Women’s Weekly magazine. Since I went there on the second last day, they ran out of the magazines so I guess the demand for the package was more than good.
Free gifts and ORLY it’s a modem
My photo bring printed out on the Canon Selphy
But most of my time was spent hanging out with these two geeks:
Miss and Mister Geek
With a Nokia N95 8GB connected to a monitor, Miss Geek showed me the Maxis 3G WAP portal which I never really bothered with before, even though I am an existing Maxis 3G subscriber. But some of the stuff looked interesting, especially the Maxis TV part. You can click on this link to find out the fees and such, but I’ll just say that the streaming ran rather smoothly.
Bestnyer