Lim dares to take on ice bucket challenge

CHIEF Minister Lim Guan Eng is game for the Ice Bucket Challenge, and has even named two people to do it with him.

He named Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz and China Press editor-in-chief Teoh Yang Khoon to do it with him.

“If it is for charity, I will surely lead by example.

“I will ask somebody who is not from Pakatan Rakyat to do this. I will ask the Tourism Minister and Yang Khoon to do it with me.

“But I cannot do it within the next 24 hours. Hopefully, this can be extended. Perhaps, you all can help with the arrangement,” he said in jest during a press conference at his office in Komtar on Wednesday.

The Ice Bucket Challenge is an activity involving dumping a bucket of ice water on one’s head or donating to the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) Association in the United States.

It went viral throughout social media during the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2014.

The challenge dares nominated participants to be filmed having a bucket of ice water poured on their heads. A common stipulation is that nominated people have 24 hours to comply or forfeit by way of a charitable financial donation.

Various international celebrities and public figures have so far participated in the challenge and to date the ALS association has collected some US$15.6mil, which will go towards research of the lethal neurodegenerative disorder also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Earlier, Lim was bemused when a China Press reporter told him that 988 radio station deejay K.K. Wong had dared him for the challenge.

Several reporters then went to great lengths to explain the challenge to Lim and how it worked.

“I have no idea about the whole challenge at all. I only heard about Bill Gates doing this.

“Secondly, I am not very familiar with Wong,” he said.