KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian woman living in a glass cage with 2,000 scorpions for the last five days said she‘s been stung once, but was still determined to enter the record books. Nor Malena Hassan, speaking by mobile phone from inside the cage, said she had been stung on the hand. „You have to be scared, scared of dying and of being stung,“ the 24-year-old woman said from Kota Baru, the capital of the northern state of Kelantan. Her guru is Ali Khan Shamsuddin, Malaysia‘s Snake King, who says he set the standard when he lived caged with 5,000 scorpions for three weeks in 1997. „I eat, sleep and do everything in the cage, except for a 15-minute break to go to the toilet and to bathe,“ Nor Malena said from the 12 square metre enclosure in city‘s state museum. She was trained by Ali Khan to hold the scorpions, whose sting is painful but rarely fatal for humans. „Throughout the world many people can live with snakes but not with scorpions,“ Ali Khan told Reuters from the museum. Officials from the Malaysian Book of Records are monitoring Nor Malena‘s progress. Another Malaysian woman won a place for herself in the local Book of Records last year after spending 31 days with 90 snakes. Reuters