Largest Wearable Cardboard Box Race
Staff of Busy Bees, which has 48 pre-school learning centres in Singapore, made a trip to Palawan Beach, Sentosa, for a retreat on 24 Mar 2016. Among other challenges they were tasked to perform was the making of handcrafted cars from cardboard boxes. The teams later competed in a relay race. A total of 282 people in 141 cars raced ... Read More »
Most Number Of People Playing SingaPlorers Together
SingaPlorers is a board game, designed by Seeding Hut, about Singapore’s nation building story in the last 50 years. In the game, players learn about the different challenges Singapore faced and is still facing. On 23 Mar 2016, 262 students of Northoaks Primary School were introduced to the game and became the biggest group to play it together. Read More »
First Outdoor Synthetic Ice Skating Rink
Smart Parents, one of Mediacorp’s magazines, organised a kids fiesta on 12-13 Mar 2016 at The Floating Platform. The key feature of the event was the 16m by 12m skating rink made of a hard polymer material that can withstand the skates. Skating shoes were also provided. Read More »
Building And Places
(Images and illustrations may be available when you place your cursor over the record title.) PUBLIC BUILDINGS First Government House Sir Stamford Raffles’ first residence on Bukit Larangan (now Fort Canning Hill) was designed by George D Coleman immediately after his arrival in Singapore. Completed in 1823, it was mostly made of timber and had a 100-ft frontage and a ... Read More »
Short Film Produced In The Most Number of Languages
While still studying at SAE Institute’s Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Digital Film Making programme, Mathankumaran Madawan, 26, produced and directed a mysterious thriller outstandingly. Shot in 2014, ‘Belitter’ is a supernatural-themed film about a girl who has recently moved to a new house. While getting used to her new home, she experienced something uncanny that changed her life. Read More »
