THE BRIGHT PATH
esmond Tan may be a household name now, but his journey to the top of the Singaporean entertainment industry wasn’t always so clear-cut. In 2007, fresh out of National Service and waiting for university to start, the then 21-year-old was serving a two-week retail stint that made him utterly miserable when his friends nudged him towards Mediacorp’s Mandarin talent contest . “I got into the finals and deferred my studies by a semester; when I graduated, I told myself, why not give it two years in the industry and if things don’t work out, I can always just go back to what I studied, which was
