Largest Chinese Zodiac Sign Lohei Yusheng
The Delta Avenue Residents Committee, together with South Central Community Family Service Centre celebrated Chinese New Year with a potluck lunch on 4 Feb 2023 at the FSC. A rabbit holding a gold ingot was made from sliced vegetables and abalones, in a square formation of side 2.15m long. This was stirred up enthusiastically by participants to the cries of ... Read More »
Oldest Anniversary Gathering Of National Servicemen
The Alpha Company of the SAF 35th Battalion Singapore Combat Engineers was enlisted on 20 Jan 1973 and trained at Seletar East Camp V in Jalan Kayu. The men completed their full-time service on 19 Jan 1975. 23 of them came together on 19 Jan 2023 to celebrate their 50th anniversary at SAFRA Toa Payoh Jubilee Restaurant. Read More »
Memory Records: 3 Square Roots Unravelled
Three students from the Singapore Polytechnic School of Computing achieved three new memory records on 1 Feb 2023. They were: Leong Li Jet could write down 666* digits for Most Digits of Square Root of 6 Recalled; Glynis Ng Hui Xuan had 777 digits for Most Digits of Square Root of 7 Recalled; and Shelby Yeo Xun Hui managed 888 digits ... Read More »
Memory Records: Weiqi Pieces, Pokemon Characters
Kenneth Tan achieved his 7th and 8th Singapore memory record on 1 Feb 2023 at Singapore Polytechnic. They were: Fastest To Identify The Pokedex Of Pokémon Characters On Sporcle, and Fastest To Memorise And Recall A Full Board Of Weiqi Pieces. In 1 min 52 sec, he identified all the 151 Pokemon indexes on the Sporcle online platform. Then he ... Read More »
Largest Sculpture Made Of Milk Cartons
The IAEC of Toa Payoh West CC celebrated Pongal on 4 Feb 2023, where residents had fun with traditional games and pot painting. There was even a huge ‘Pongal pot’ made of used milk cartons built by volunteers and collected from the Holy Tree Sri Balasubramaniar Temple. The pot measured 2.7m high and had a maximum diameter of 3m. Read More »
