Poly Student Helps Out At Parents’ Stalls Everyday But Still Has Time To Win WorldSkills Competition
Ng Jun Xuan The ‘Everyday Hero’ Do you sometimes feel that 24 hours a day just isn’t sufficient for you to do everything you wanted to? Maybe you can learn a thing or two from 20-year-old Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) student Ng Jun Xuan. He recently clinched the gold medal at the newly introduced 3D Digital Game Art category in the WorldSkills Singapore competition, reported The New Paper. He managed to do so despite having to deliver vegetables for his parents every day, on top of attending school. Thus, he deserves to be featured as our next “Everyday Hero” – following in the footsteps of Uncle Bread, the One-Handed Hawker and O-level graduate Haziratul Zakirah. Daily Routine While his peers head back home to crash on their beds after a long day in school, Jun Xuan has other matters to attend to. Regardless of what time class ends – sometimes even as late as 6pm – he travels to 3 vegetarian hawker stalls owned by his parents to deliver ingredients. By the time he’s home, I’d imagine him to be like this: Source Yet, he is still able to find the energy to stay up to design and create 3D game characters despite reaching […]
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