You have to register your listener to be notified.
taken from the memoapidemo:
Code:
PIM p = PIM.getInstance();
try {
BlackBerryPIMList memoList = (BlackBerryPIMList) p.openPIMList( BlackBerryPIM.MEMO_LIST, BlackBerryPIM.READ_WRITE );
memoList.addListener( new MemoListListener() );
} catch ( PIMException e ) {
// Can't add listener
}