Im in Dubai now doing some 're branding' project for Study in Malaysia and incharge of Malaysia Pavillion at GETEX autum 2009 at the dubai world trade centre from 27-29 October 2009.(doing same thing at Bahrain and Jordon, back-to-back)
Next to the exhibition hall was dubai world game expo.
When i walk in I was so supprise to see the exhibitors... nothing like what i saw in Malaysia or even korea fairs as they focus too much on selling games, etc and sexy games characters (not that im complaining). The fairs is so much on CONTENT!
But one major booth that make me feel proud (not as malaysian but as human living in developing county) is that there s an IRAN Paviliion and hosted by IRAN NATIONAL FOUNDATION OF COMPUTER GAMES!!!
www.ircg.ir
I mean we talking bout iran here! to compare with Malaysia who started the most proud MSC and where we are now?!
I took the liberty to go to the booth and look for the person behind this sincere initiative to help building this 'future business' in a country such as IRAN for the youth and future leaders. Waited for 30min for him as he went for prayers but its all worth it...
His name is Behrouz Minaei PhD and he is the MD for eGame National Foundation of Iran
He shared with me his vision, story and journey for him to convince the Government togethr with his team and made it happen. When i ask him what drives him to do all this, and to my supprise he says " i remember few years ago i attended a talk by yr previous PM, Mahathir Mohamad and in his speech he says 'if you have the will, you can do it...Malaysia Boleh! and since then i told my self that i 'boleh' (i can) and IRAN boleh... the rest is history my brother", he explained while still looking whether am i a reporter from Malaysia or not!
I congratulate him and his team again for a job well done!
A good friend and a bro of mine is into this games business for more than 15 yrs, same time as me when i started my conference business. But this guy is the PIONEER in the games industry in Malaysia... and his name is BUN (real name too boring:))
BUN is a nice humble yet firm chap!
BUN have been thru a tough journey in his life to make 'them' understand how current and important the games industry to the country...
I called him and straight told him bout my 'discovery' and told him that when i get back to Malaysia in 2 weeks time... i will do my very best to help him on his quest to develop the games industry in malaysia so that Malaysia can be the hub for the asian countries and soon a leader in games development industry! Insyaallah!
BUN lets do this and form THE MALAYSIAN FOUNDATION OF COMPUTER GAMES and make Malaysia as one of the world leader in computer games industry!
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