Creativity is a collaborative endeavor and a team sport. Engulfed by boredom during the Covid-19 stay-at-home Movement Control Order (MCO), Amirul Hizami Mohd Arif took his grandmother along on a TikTok ride. The duo instantly became online sensations.
Headed for a million viewing hits on Twitter, the TikTok clip's production is traced to a heart-warming reason by the grandson.
“I had seen a granddaughter-grandmother duo on a TikTok video, one which I immediately took a screenshot of and sent to my family’s WhatsApp group. My sister, who is studying at the University of Seoul in Korea and feeling homesick during this lockdown period, asked me to do a similar TikTok with our grandmother whom she dearly misses,” says Amirul Hizami.
That it would go viral had never been anticipated by either of the two in the TikTok video clip. Not only is Amirul a professed introvert but his grandmother, too, is quite reserved. Yet the elderly eighty-eight-year-old former schoolteacher had sportingly been game to go with the video flow, which eventually saw her slipping into Amirul's outfit and the grandson into his grandmother's. The internet went ga-ga over how bad-boy-cute Tok Hasnah Yahaya looked in the grandson’s hooded sweatshirt.
“Knowing that it's spreading grins everywhere makes us happy,” says Amirul, elated.
Such spirit-lifting has become increasingly necessary as the nationwide Movement Control Order (MCO) entered its third phase in Malaysia. Amirul Hizami, who is studying Diploma in Culinary Arts at the Management and Science University (MSU) School of Hospitality and Creative Arts (SHCA), advises not giving up on the 180-degree adjustments everyone is having to make.
“I personally prefer physical classrooms but now with social distancing in place I’m getting used to the online classrooms and working hard at adjusting. To quote Thomas Edison, (who improved development of the electric light bulb by thousands of trials), the most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time, so don’t give up. Give online classes a try and everything would be as it is.”
Watch the TikTok clip here:
@amirulhizamiii
MSU Bachelor in Culinary Arts (Hons)
MSU Bachelor in Patisserie Arts (Hons)
MSU Bachelor in Creative Video and Photography (Hons)
MSU Bachelor in Creative Multimedia (Hons)
Creativity is a collaborative endeavor and a team sport. Engulfed by boredom during the Covid-19 stay-at-home Movement Control Order (MCO), Amirul Hizami Mohd Arif took his grandmother along on a TikTok ride. The duo instantly became online sensations.
Headed for a million viewing hits on Twitter, the TikTok clip's production is traced to a heart-warming reason by the grandson.
“I had seen a granddaughter-grandmother duo on a TikTok video, one which I immediately took a screenshot of and sent to my family’s WhatsApp group. My sister, who is studying at the University of Seoul in Korea and feeling homesick during this lockdown period, asked me to do a similar TikTok with our grandmother whom she dearly misses,” says Amirul Hizami.
That it would go viral had never been anticipated by either of the two in the TikTok video clip. Not only is Amirul a professed introvert but his grandmother, too, is quite reserved. Yet the elderly eighty-eight-year-old former schoolteacher had sportingly been game to go with the video flow, which eventually saw her slipping into Amirul's outfit and the grandson into his grandmother's. The internet went ga-ga over how bad-boy-cute Tok Hasnah Yahaya looked in the grandson’s hooded sweatshirt.
“Knowing that it's spreading grins everywhere makes us happy,” says Amirul, elated.
Such spirit-lifting has become increasingly necessary as the nationwide Movement Control Order (MCO) entered its third phase in Malaysia. Amirul Hizami, who is studying Diploma in Culinary Arts at the Management and Science University (MSU) School of Hospitality and Creative Arts (SHCA), advises not giving up on the 180-degree adjustments everyone is having to make.
“I personally prefer physical classrooms but now with social distancing in place I’m getting used to the online classrooms and working hard at adjusting. To quote Thomas Edison, (who improved development of the electric light bulb by thousands of trials), the most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time, so don’t give up. Give online classes a try and everything would be as it is.”
Watch the TikTok clip here:
@amirulhizamiii
MSU Bachelor in Culinary Arts (Hons)
MSU Bachelor in Patisserie Arts (Hons)
MSU Bachelor in Creative Video and Photography (Hons)
MSU Bachelor in Creative Multimedia (Hons)
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