July 25, 03:18 PM 
514 Chai Chee Lane 03-16, Singapore 469029 Singaporean singing competition sensation Jeremy Teng has managed to delay his National Service enlistment in the nick of time to audition for The Voice of China, a popular singing show.
He made the announcement on his Facebook page on Thursday evening.
The 20-year-old, who recently won at Japanese singing competition Nodojiman the World in April this year, said he will be flying off to Shanghai soon where the audition is happening on Sunday.
In the Facebook post, Teng said that his second appeal via his Jurong MP and Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, and emails to Defence Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen as well as Minister for Manpower Tan Chuan Jin, have "paid off".
The approval came after he failed in his first appeal.
However, he did not manage to get a full NS deferment.
Teng will still have to enlist at a later date and could try to reschedule his enlistment date to the "last intake available within the year".
Teng was 15 when he joined Campus Superstar 2009, where he entered the final top 10.
Since then, it has been a roller coaster ride through failure interspersed with success.
His dream to bring his voice to Taiwan saw him take part twice in the Singapore auditions for One Million Star (超級星光大道), a well-known singing contest in Taiwan.
Both attempts ended in spectacular failure as he was booted out in less than a minute.
He had lost eight out of ten singing contests in Singapore before attaining the Nodojiman the World champion title in April 2014.
Check out his Facebook post:
Top photo via Jeremy Teng Facebook
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