of singapore records

I was looking through Guiness World Records website on Saturday looking for achievements set by Singapore. I had wanted to post this today. Then I popped by La Idler's blog early early this morning where she pointed some more record attempts.

Singapore's record-breaking feats was one of the two things that I spent searching the net over the weekend. The other one was Beatboxing which I'll post later. The record attempt and beatboxing are in the papers today.

Here's the list I extracted from GWR.
Largest Fountain: Suntec City Fountain of Wealth. 1,683.07 sq m. US$6 million to build. (1997)
Fastest Stair-Climb In The World's Tallest Hotel: 6 minutes 55 seconds, 1336 stairs. (4th June 1989)
Largest Game Of Pass The Parcel: Pass-the-parcel game involving 3,918 students (28th February 1998)
Most Strings Of Noodles: 8,192 noodle strings from a single piece of dough (31st July 1994)
Longest Human Domino Line: 4.2km human domino chain (30th September 2000)
Largest Display Of Rice Dumplings: 13,192 rice dumplings (13th July 2003) - May be broken, pending on the 14,038 rice dumplings displayed on Sunday 13th June 2005.
Fastest Text Message 160-character text in 43.2 sec (27th June 2004)
Largest Sand Painting: 12.24 m by 12.24 m painting (May 2004) (May be broken soon - see here)

Latest:
Largest contingent of balloon-hat wearers in a single gathering: 1,300 wearers
Largest Display Of Rice Dumplings: 14,038 rice dumplings (13th June 2005)

Broken records:
Largest Pizza: 33.9m diameter pizza set in June 1990. Record broken on 8th December 1990.
Longest Team Drumming Marathon: 27 hours 45 minutes. Record broken in March 2002.