Compiled by DIYANA PFORDTEN and C. ARUNO
THE Malaysian production team behind Hong Kong actress Sit Yeng Yi’s new music video garnered much praise after it racked up nearly one million views on YouTube in just a week after its launch, reported Sin Chew Daily.
The song, One Plus One Equals Ah Yi, which was written by local lyricist Monsterz Lee and produced by Koay Vern Hanz, was viewed 969,393 times at press time.
Internet users lauded the humorous lyrics and catchy tune, as well as praising the choreography and how the music video was directed.
“Ah Yi was standing like a tree throughout the whole music video but the director made such a perfect edit. Really impressed,” one netizen wrote.
The music video also gave credit to several other production crew members from Malaysia.
It was earlier reported that Sit, who was at a studio in Malaysia, managed to wrap up the recording of the song in less than two hours.
> A woman in China has taken to the Internet for help after she failed to decipher her father’s last words, reported Sin Chew Daily.
The woman uploaded a plea for help on social media platform Xiao Hong Shu recently along with a note containing nine handwritten Chinese characters.
“These are my father’s last words? Please can anyone read them,” she wrote.
She explained that at his deathbed, her father held her mother’s hand and attempted to say something but could not be understood.
He then resorted to penning down his thoughts before shortly passing away.
However, family members failed to understand the hastily written note, forcing the daughter to seek help from the Internet.
Her social media post garnered sympathy from Internet users, many of whom were determined to decipher the words.
Most came to the conclusion that the note had read: “Do not be sad, I want you to remain strong.”
The message tugged at the heartstrings of netizens, many of whom comforted the grieving family in the comments section.
> A man in Johor Baru felt an odd sensation in his mouth when having a roti canai and was stunned when he spat out a stapler bullet, reported China Press.
The 54-year-old man, whose surname is Huang, said he was lucky that he was unhurt as he managed to remove the item.
He told the daily that he bought the roti canai from a restaurant in Taman Daya.
Despite often eating there for the past three years, this was the first time he had found a foreign object in his food.
“Finding ‘additional ingredients’ in food is not uncommon. However, I want to remind everyone to please chew slowly to avoid swallowing any weird objects,” he said.
The man’s story was widely shared on social media, with many Internet users chipping in their experiences at finding odd items in their food.
“We must be careful when eating. My friend found a small razor in the mixed rice he bought once,” one netizen wrote.
Another added that they found steel wool shaving in a bowl of wantan mee.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
