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Most Number Of People Freeze Pose Together
Organised by U Family and supported by NTUC FairPrice, the U Picnic on 6 Oct 2012 was an evening at the Marina Barrage filled with unique local food, games and entertainment for all ages. Among the many interesting items in the programme was having all picnickers to pose in a frozen position for one minute. 2,266 participants broke the previous ... Read More »
Largest Display Of Handmade Puppets
PAP Community Foundation and WINGS (a project group of the PAP Women MPs) organised a showcase of pre-schoolers’ storytelling skills at the National Library Plaza on 30 Sep 2012. Prior to the event children had been making hand puppets out of old socks at their kindergartens. 6,122 puppets were displayed at the event. Read More »
First TCM Bread
Coreen Wong opened Singapore’s first bakery specialising in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) breads at its Seng Poh Road outlet in Tiong Bahru. Dough & Grains features Asian flavours in confectionery such as an ginseng wolfberry cupcake, Chinese yam tarts, pine nut banana cake and pumpkin egg tarts. The Mediacorp Radio 95.8FM team was there at its opening on 29 Sep ... Read More »
Largest Display of Floating Lanterns
Every year VivoCity has been setting a record for its lantern festival celebration. On 29 Sep 2012, besides being entertained by cultural performances at the Sky Park, 1,388 shoppers got to set afloat their lanterns at the wading pool. Read More »
Largest Lantern Made Of Handpainted Plastic Bottles
In the last 20 years, Akira Takahashi has built more than half a dozen record-breaking super-sized lanterns. His latest is for Radin Mas SMC’s Mid-Autumn Festival celebration at the Redhill market and hawker centre on 29 Sep 2012. For several months he has been collecting used plastic cooking oil bottles and painting each one individually. They were assembled into a ... Read More »
