IN a bid to lose weight, a seven-year-old in China promised his father that he would do one rope skip for every ‘like’ their video received on social media, China Press reported.
The video went viral, drawing 1.8 million likes in less than a day.
In the video uploaded on Monday, the father and his son were seen making a pinky promise.
“However many likes this video gets, you’ll skip that many times. If you get 1,000 likes, you will skip 1,000 times. If you get 10,000, you will skip 10,000 times,” he said.
The boy nodded solemnly in agreement.
On the first day, the video received 150 likes and the boy – nickname – Tangdou, performed 150 repetitions as promised.
However, it soon got out of hand when the video got nearly two million likes the next day.
“You’ll be skipping until you get married,” the father quipped.
He said the school assigned pupils winter break homework to skip rope 100 times a day.
Although the video has reached 1.8 million likes, he decided to enforce the deal to teach his son the value of keeping his promise.
Tangdou has agreed to complete 300 skips a day.
“I just hope he can stick with it and develop good habits,” the father said.
> With Chinese New Year approaching, a life-size Santa Claus figure was spotted outside a Hong Kong restaurant wearing robes associated with the God of Wealth, China Press reported.
A social media user posted a photo of an unusual ‘God of Wealth’ figure who looked like a foreign man standing outside a restaurant on the island.
On closer inspection, the “God of Wealth” could be seen spotting a thick white moustache, and a large belly.
Although it wore the hat and robes typically associated with the God of Wealth, the figure also had red velvet trousers and black boots.
Many Internet users pointed out it was a Santa Claus figure masquerading as God of Wealth.
“Just one salary but having to bear the workload of two people. Very Hong Kong-esque,” one netizen wrote.
Others joked that money was hard to earn in this economy, forcing everyone to work overtime or take on multiple jobs.
The above article is 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 this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
