Over 100 over fans had the privilege to catch superstar Aaron Aziz during an exclusive hi-tea session at Tarindak D’Polo yesterday. Aaron Aziz came with his beloved wife Diyana Halik whose birthday fell on that day too. It was a great experience for the fans as they got their money’s worth as Aaron was pretty entertaining during the the Q & A sessions with the fans.

There were also some scenes re-enacted from the million dollar hit “Ombak Rindu” which brought some delights to the fans. After refreshments, the silver ticket fans had the opportunity to take photos and signatures from the celebrity.

Also present were local artistes Maria, Lily Chiam, Shian Li Chiam and Zul Faden. The event was organised by El Ricco as part of the Bliss Wedding Showcase 2012..

Recently Aaron Aziz was voted the Most Famous Actor at the Berita Harian Award and also won the Most Popular Male Film Actor award. However, his victory rose some controversies as he is a Singaporean.

Perhaps the best question answered was “Suci” when he replied to one of the fans’ question – “What’s your room number (at The Empire Hotel)?”

It was sweet that Aaron Aziz came along with his wife Diyana Halik who is also his manager

DJ Zureen was the emcee of the day

One of the fans made some cakes for Aaron Aziz

Trying to re-enact one of the scenes with Aaron Aziz

The fans were all smiles during the Q&A session

Seri Wee had her heart racing when she was asked to re-enact one of the sweetest scenes in Ombak Rindu

This is the scene I was talking about, taken from a clip of Ombak Rindu

And boy, did Seri Wee enjoy that scene with Aaron Aziz.. *lol*

A fan asked a very controversial question but it was cool of Aaron Aziz to answer it professionally

Another fan was so excited yet nervous to up close and personal with Aaron Aziz

Ak Danny asked Aaron if he is any fan of the Premier League and sadly he doesn’t support any club

His fans kept on screaming whenever Aaron replied with a witty answer

It was quite a crowd yesterday during the Meet the fan session

Some of the families had a group photo with Aaron Aziz

Zul Faden asking some advice from Aaron with regards to acting

Fina and Tisya are big fans of Aaron Aziz

Tisya was so proud that to get Aaron’s signature on the silver ticket

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This is the first of its kind from AITI and they have collaborated with iCentre’s Think Big Immerse Challenge 2012. The motive for AITI is to create a new field for innovation and multimedia for the ANIMASI Challenge 2012.

The purpose of the “Brunei Stories Scriptwriting and Storyboarding Challenge” is dedicated to discover and support emerging writing talents in particular to create a script and a storyboard. The script and storyboard should be based on the common title Bruneian Folklore. This Challenge is also aimed to encourage aspiring, emerging and established scriptwriters with originality and promise in work.

So who’s eligible?
1) Citizens and PR of Brunei Darussalam.
2) Scripts and storyboards – Standard Bahasa Melayu or English Language.
3) All participants relate to the theme of “Bruneian Folklore” which includes legends, myths and Brunei elements such as places of interest, cultural values and history

Deadline? —> 4th June 2012.

First prize winner of the iMMerse-ANIMASI Scriptwriting and Storyboarding Challenge will walk away with a grand cash prize worth B$3000 and a trophy. Second and third place winners of this Challenge shall receive B$2000 and B$1000 and trophies. Four consolation prizes worth $500 will also be given. That’s a cool incentive and I’m sure a lot of students will take up this challenge.

Scriptwriting and Storyboarding Challenge was launched last Friday and the guest honour was Tuan Hj Yahkup Haju Menudin, Cheif Executive of AITI. For further enquiries, you can email farihah.said(a)aiti.gov.bn or call 232 3232.

Tuan Hj Yahkup, Chief Executive of AITI (center) recently attended iCentre’s 4th year anniversary

I’m sure not many of you know of Chatworthy but it’s something that will be a big hit on the Apps world (for IOS users) and furthermore, it was developed by our own Brunei, Keeran Janin, the founder of MeSixty. As you know with the an increasing number of people interacting on social network platforms, a huge amoung of geo-tagged is being uploaded all the time. Hence MeSixty is able to geo-tagged content that are posted and they can display items that are revelant to your preference. Now that is awesome!!

As for Chatworthy, this is an app for the iPad and iPhone that lets you discover interesting social network based on locations. For instance, you select a location in any part of the world and it will automatically rank the posts by how relevant they are to you. The bonus part is you will be able to chat with that particular person who posts up those pictures and of course, both parties must download Chatworthy to make this possible 🙂

So last month, Keeran Janin represented Brunei in the inaugural DEMO Asia which is a launchpad for emerging technology and trends which was held at Matrix @ Biopolis, Singapore. So at DEMO Asia, a hand-selected group of new products will make its public debut to global press, savvy investors, corporate acquirers, strategic partners and buys.

At DEMO Asias 2012, a total of 44 Asian startups launched their products and 32 alpha stage companies pitched their products at the event. In the past five years, DEMO companies have raised over USD 4.5 Billion after their debut at giants like Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, Yahoo! and Cisco.

So it’s quite a privilege and a honour to have MeSixty to be shorlisted as one of the companies that qualified to pitch at the DEMO Asia 2012. They had to go through an audition process among hundreds of other startups internationally.

For now, we will be waiting when “Chatworthy” app will be available for end users. You can check out the Youtube video of Keeran’s presentation during the DEMO Asia 2012.

Keeran Janin of MeSixty had a six minute pitch at DEMO Asia 2012 in Singapore last March

The audience during the DEMO Asia 2012

Click on image to see the video of Keeran Janin’s presentation. The “Chatworthy” App is worth a look.

The shortlisted startups from different countries and it’s nice to see one representative from Brunei

Dato Paduk Hj Ali Apong, Chairman of BEDB, looking a demo from Keeran Janin’s Chatworthy at the iCentre recently