World's shortest man!

Junrey Balawing eats his cake after he was officially declared "the world's shortest living man" by the Guinness World Records at Sindangan Municipal Hall, Sindangan township, Zamboanga Del Norte province in Southern Philippines, Sunday June 12, 2011, his 18th birthday and coincidentally the Philippines' Independence Day. (AP)
Junrey Balawing reacts as he poses for a Guinness World Records-hired photographer after a series of measurements conducted by its representative. Officials said Saturday Balawing was measured at 24 and 1/4 inches (about 61 centimeters) lying down and about two inches shorter than the current record holder Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal and is expected to be officially named as the world's shortest living man when he turns 18 Sunday. (AP)
Ryan Chua, a local television reporter, has his picture taken with Junrey Balawing using his iPad after Balawing was officially declared "the world's shortest living man" by the Guinness World Records. (AFP)
unrey Balawing is assited by his mother Concepcion following a series of measurement conducted by a Guinness World Records representative at Sindangan Health Center, Sindangan township, Zamboanga Del Norte province in Southern Philippines Saturday June 11, 2011, the eve of his 18th birthday which is coincidentally is the Philippines Independence Day. (AFP)
Filipino Junrey Balawing, who unofficially measures 61cm, is carried by his mother Concepcion, 35, at a health centre in Sindangan, in the southern Philippines on June 11, 2011. Junrey, who turns 18 on June 12, is due to be measured by the Guinness Book of World's Records when he becomes eligible to be considered the world's shortest living man. (AFP)
Filipino Junrey Balawing (C), who unofficially measures about 24 1/4 inches (61cm), poses for photographs with his family at a health centre in Sindangan town Zamboanga Del Norte in the southern Philippines on June 11, 2011. (AP)
Junrey Balawing, center, smiles as he is measured by Guinness World Records adjudicator Craig Glenday, left, for the last of a series of measurements conducted at Sindangan Municipal Hall, Sindangan township, Zamboanga Del Norte province in Southern Philippines, Sunday June 12, 2011, his 18th birthday and coincidentally the Philippines' Independence Day. (AP)
Pic 2: Junrey Balawing, 18, smiles as he stands next to a ruler being held by his mother Concepcion prior to the last of a series of measurements conducted by Guinness World Records at Sindangan Municipal Hall in Sindangan township, Zamboanga Del Norte province in Southern Philippines, Sunday June 12, 2011. (AP)