I'm doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge as nominated by Rich Sng from FABULOUS AESTHETICS! 

If you guys have no idea what this is about, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is basically the act of dumping a bucket of ice water on one's head to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and encourage donations to the research for a cure. 



Now, what's ALS? 
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND), Charcot disease, and Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease with various causes. It is characterised by muscle spasticity, rapidly progressive weakness due to muscle atrophy, and difficulty in speaking (dysarthria), swallowing (dysphagia), and breathing (dyspnea). ALS is the most common of the five motor neurone diseases. 

People who have ALS will gradually become more disabled. The rate at which the disease worsens is different for every individual. Most people who are diagnosed with ALS live only for a couple of years. Eventually, ALS makes it hard for the patient to walk, speak, eat, swallow, and, even, breathe. These problems heightens the level of difficulty in performing even the simplest and basic tasks of a patient's daily life. In most cases, death will occur within 3 to 5 years after symptoms begin, although some people do live for many years, in some rare cases.




Enough said, here is my ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Enjoy!



Like what I have mentioned in the video, I am not nominating anyone for this challenge because:
1) I don't want to force anyone to dump ice water on their heads;
2) I don't want to force anyone to donate their  money to aid in the research. Mainly because it's if YOUR money, and I have no say in how you should utilise your money. Also, there are countless of charitable causes out there that we know of, but don't donate to. Not because we are not sympathetic towards people who are suffering from something we're not, but because there are just too many that even if we have all the a lot of money, we can never donate to all of them.

I understand that a couple of criticisms have arose relating to this campaign, accusing challenge doers to be wasting water by performing this 'meaningless' activity, while at the other half of the world, people are suffering from water scarcity and diseases associated with the lack of clean water. But guys, think about it, aren't all these seemingly 'pointless' and 'stupid' activities what that attracts people's attention on the internet today? I don't deny that all of the water used for this challenge can definitely save thousands of people, probably, from dehydration, but the water that have been 'wasted' are used in a good way. It helped in raising awareness for ALS and had served its purpose. So far, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has already raised more than US$23 million for the research. 


So please, before you start criticising about how much water went to waste, or how people are doing the challenge and not donating, or anything like that, ask yourself, what have you done for this cause?

If you did, i applaud you for that! *claps hands*



Here's how to donate. It's as easy as online shopping, Im not even kidding. 

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