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KUALA LUMPUR: When it comes to drawing circles, Malaysians are in good shape.
Legions have taken up the social media challenge du jour – the #CircleChallenge – and demonstrated that their skill at drawing circles free-handed is nothing to sniff at.
(Sure, there’s little utility in having a flair for doodling circles without using a compass, but at least it’s keeping folks away from brain-dead hashtag challenges involving dining on washing detergent, or dancing in traffic next to a moving car).
But all participants got bent out of shape when Uzairi Mohd Taib circled onto the scene.
An Instagram star and tutor at the Maths Clinic Tuition Centre in Setiawangsa, Uzairi – reverently referred to by devotees as ‘Sir Uzairi’ – casually re-invented the wheel (or the circle, in this case) when he took up the gauntlet.
In a video posted on Sept 25, Sir Uzairi – with all the flamboyance, showmanship and pizzazz of a Las Vegas magician – is seen portentously entering a classroom filled with expectant students, approaching the white board, and coolly drawing a perfect circle with a blink-of-an-eye flick of his wrist.
His students go apes**t.
The camera pans across the teens as they detonate into applause, shouts, in-seat bouncing… and possibly even hysterical weeping.
The feat is certainly amazing – but even more amazing is that the video has racked up an astounding 1.1 million views in just four days. (That’s the kind of math Sir Uzairi would surely appreciate).