A MALAYSIAN teenager’s rather strange name has turned her into a Facebook sensation among Icelanders.
“Essasa Sue” — a 19-year-old girl from Port Klang — sounds like the catchphrase used in a recent commercial by European telecommunications giant Vodafone, which is famous among Icelanders.
In the commercial, a frog, which was voiced by Icelandic actor Pétur Joóhann Sigfússon, mentions the word “Essassu”, which means: “Is that you?”
Quoting British newspaper Daily Telegraph, Kosmo! reported that the girl had since been bombarded with hundreds of requests from Icelanders to be her friend on Facebook, making her the latest sensation on the social networking site.
There was even a Facebook campaign called “We Want To Bring Essasa Sue To Iceland.”
Sue — whose full name is Essasa Sie Sue Wei — currently has 2,925 Facebook friends and the number was still growing.
According to a founder of the Facebook campaign to “bring Essasa Sue to Iceland” Sigurjón Hallgrímsson, it had started out as a joke before it attracted more than 1,000 members.
“She is now popular in Iceland and it’s time to bring her to this country,” said the website.
The Star
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