Tea Break with Ianny

 “You look familiar.  Were you my classmate?”

In the ad for a beauty product, Fann Wong’s response to that pick up line was “I was your teacher.”

Now for real, 19-year-old Alia Sabur will say the same – professor, in fact, to be exact.  She is slated to join Seoul’s Konkuk University as professor next month.

That will make her the world’s youngest professor.  The Guinness Book of Records matches her feat to the record set by Colin Maclaurin, a 19-year-old student of Isaac Newton, almost three centuries ago.

Apart from academic excellence, she is a taekwondo black belt and a concert-level clarinetist.  She speaks several languages, including math and music.

Very significantly, she acknowledges the blessings as a gift from God.