First Olympic Gold Medallist
Joseph Schooling holds the most men’s swimming records in Singapore, including all three butterfly records. He won the 100m butterfly at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with a time of 50.39 sec. His other medals include one Asian Games gold and 23 SEA Games golds. In 2009, at age 14, he joined the Bolles School in Florida to better his swimming and in 2014, ... Read More »
Top Paralympics Medallist
In Sep 2012, Laurentia Tan, 33, won a silver medal in the Individual Freestyle Test (1a) and a bronze in the Dressage Individual Championship Test (1a) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. In Sep 2008, she won 2 bronze medals in Hong Kong for the Beijing Paralympics. Tan developed cerebral palsy and profound deafness after birth, and moved to ... Read More »
Most Number Of People Playing Pick-Up Sticks
At Pasir Ris-Punggol One Community Fiesta on 19 Nov 2016, 172 people gathered at a specially set-up tent to play an old school game of pick-up sticks. Participants formed groups of two, three or four for the challenge. The game and other activities were meant to bring the young and old together and the different communities closer. The event was held outside Riviera ... Read More »
Most High-Fives In One Minute
To celebrate the release of MapleStory’s much-anticipated Fifth Job Advancement, Asiasoft Online gathered gamers at Bugis+ for an event on 20 Nov 2016. As part of the day’s programme, 256 people were lined-up with number tags and Eugene Tan managed to high-five all of them within a minute. This was not too far off from the world record of 290. Read More »
Most Lotus-Leaf Buns Eaten In 10 Mins
Flavours at Zhongshan Park (Ramada Hotel) organised its second Ah Hood Burger Challenge on 19 Nov 2016. It was a photo-finish fight in the previous year with Zermatt Neo, narrowly beating Ng Chin Sheng. This time, Ng ate with a vengence to break Neo’s record with 22 burgers. Sarah Ow was second with 21 burgers. Ah Hood Burger is the restaurant’s signature dish using lotus-leaf buns stuffed ... Read More »
