Help the barbers set a record
Get a free haircut as 17 men gather to carve name into book
GEORGE TOWN: If getting your haircut at the local Indian barber is part of your childhood memory, head to Gurney Plaza before 1pm today.
Help a group of 17 local Indian barbers from around the country carve their names into the Malaysia Book of Records and get a free haircut in return.
Just tell them how you want it. Would you prefer a low fade or high? Perhaps you look good sporting a skin fit or a flat top? They have a book full of hair tattoos to choose from too.
If you are up for it, just hope your boss allows you go to work with spiky hair or a punk hairstyle.
Those Indian barbers will do it any way you like, absolutely free, because they want to achieve the record of doing the Longest NonStop Haircut Relay (72 hours).
They started on Thursday and the aim was to give 1,000 free haircuts.
By 3pm yesterday, they had already worked on 1,077 heads.
And there is no shortage of heads because many shoppers patiently waited for their turn.
Some of these barbers are masters of the art.
P. Kannan, 44, from Petaling Jaya, has been a barber for 28 years. He is part of the team of 17 barbers.
“We planned this two months ago. We just want the satisfaction of being able to do as many haircuts as possible in 72 hours,” he said.
A. Logaraj, 29, who has been a barber for 11 years in Bentong, Pahang, said he was having a fabulous time cutting hair in Penang, even if it was a little tiring.
“We split up into four shifts a day, six hours per shift. When the mall closes, we move all our barber chairs and mirrors to the outdoor promenade at the side of the mall and keep on giving haircuts.
“Through word-of-mouth, many people still come for free haircuts late into the night,” he said.
These barbers are part of the Malaysia Book of Records tour, dubbed “Extraordinary Malaysia”.
A few other feats were also being performed, such as the Fastest Escape from a Water Torture Cell by magician and escape artist, A. Vikneswaran, 31.
From his record of three minutes and 16 seconds in Kuala Lumpur last month, he was able to free himself from padlock and chains in his watery prison within two minutes and 20 seconds, and he will keep on trying to break his own record here today.
Also displayed are other MBOR record makers such as a ship model built with the most number of origami pieces (over 30,000).