Pinay Puzzle Queen

July 23, 2008 · Filed Under people · 8 Comments 

Do you have enough patience to put together 24,000 puzzle pieces?

Well, one Filipina does. She’s Gemberly Tan-Cagalingan, and not only is she the first in the Philippines to complete the world’s largest jigsaw puzzle, “Life: The Greatest Challenge”, she is also the first to do so in Asia! Astig!

Pinay Puzzle Queen
Pinay Puzzle Queen Gemberly and her completed “Life” puzzle

Gemberly’s a certified jigsaw puzzle addict, having started to assemble puzzles when she was only 11 years old (she’s still young at 26 now), and she has done more than 200 boxes already, with each puzzle having about 500 to 3,000 pieces. (ohmy, that’s patience to the nth level! hehe!)

Initially, she has doubts on whether she could finish this super huge Life puzzle, but she jumped on in, and triumphed. Her thinking: “She might be doing the world’s largest puzzle only once in her life, and she’s got to try it while she’s young!”

And so, in January 5 (of this year), she opened the box that would make her the official Philippine puzzle queen. Then the next day, she started “working”. Overall, it took her 233 hours and five minutes to finish the whole puzzle (that’s from January 6 to April 28!). She even recorded it, and has two videos to boot:

   

And yes, she’s even made it to Philippine television via The Probe team!

Now, Gemberly is looking forward to getting her hands on a much larger puzzle, and, having been recently married, is looking forward to having a baby of her own. Aww, sweet.

* The “Life” puzzle gemberly assembled is by Royce Mcclure. It is an official entry to the Guinness World Record. TheFilipinoWeb would like to thank Ms. Gemberly Tan-Cagalingan for this interview (including the photo and videos).

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