Meeting the Masters

Who have never heard of Terry Thoren and Shahril Ibrahim? Well, I didn’t. Not before the launching of e-Farm by the state of Terengganu. We had a so called company event involving the state gov of Terengannu recently and two of the state guests were Terry and Shahril. The promotional bunting of the special guests was all over the town the day before the event took place. Who are they really? I was in one of the exhibition gazebo when I asked KS who they were. The Simpsons and Rugrats ring a bell? Of course! I spent most of my voluptuous time in the States watching The Simpsons and I don’t know who Terry is?

Terry is the CEO of Klasky Csupo and the founder of The Simpsons and Rugrats cartoon series. Shahril, a success Malaysian who works in Hollywood was the guy behind the creative effects work for movies like the Species, The Matrix, Airforce One and many more. Me & some of the tribemates attended the dinner talk by both speakers. Terry had invested in Malaysia to develop some episodes of their cartoon series and we had the chance to witness the sample of the completed development. The cartoon strokes really look familiar, frankly speaking, it look much alike the designs by our tribemates. So I guess we can really compete with the international industry, but not yet, not now. We have yet to improve a lot especially on the working attitude and ethic before we can end up producing a massive animation series like that. But nothing is impossible, if they can do it, so do we.

The nite before the event, the tribemates were testing the internet connection to Sophia, Bulgaria. The internet was running smoothly here, but unfortunately there were some internet problem in Sophia, so the event was canceled.

MB signing the M2Farm plate, watched by Terry Thoren, Shahril Ibrahim, Prof. Rahman & Jamil. Picture courtesy of http://www.terengganu.gov.my

All the happy faces taking pictures with the legendary Mr. Terry.