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Catchy nicknames are hard to come by, what more for an aspiring politician.
Progress Singapore Party (PSP) candidate Gigene Wong, who grew up poor with five siblings and whose parents separated when she was a child, told local media in a virtual press conference today (June 18) about how she got hers.
The 54-year-old said: “I was like every Singaporean. I had a dream to go to the university. But at that time, my family was very poor… and I didn’t have the luxury.
“When I was 17, I worked three part-time jobs — as a production line worker, giving tuition, and also as an illegal hawker. I carried my products to sell at bus interchanges and markets, and when the [enforcement] officer came, I had to carry my stock and run away.”
She added: “I earned $80 and I thought that was a lot of money. I also had a dream like everybody else to learn computers. At that time in the 1980s, computers were high-tech. I took my $80 and went to a computer centre to enrol for the course.
“The course cost $300. I didn’t have the money and I was very sad.”
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