Just today (May 3), Channel NewsAsia dropped a recruitment video on Facebook featuring its very own reporter Leong Wai Kit.

In the video, Leong gives the lowdown about being a broadcast journalist and how TV journalism was not 'glamourous'. He shared that the job requires a lot of passion, and without it, one cannot last long in the job because passion is "your battery that will last you through the long hours". But he does it all because he wants to use media "to do good".

Here's the recruitment video:

So why was Leong picked as CNA's poster boy? And why did we proclaim him to be the most kickass reporter in Singapore?

The recruitment video was feel-good and all, but what it missed the mark on how truly epic Leong is.

And now, we shall explain why this guy has a "battery" the size of a planet.

First off, here's Leong speaking in English, Malay, and Mandarin:

Merely trilingual? Meh, even Lee Hsien Loong can do that. Not exactly earth-shattering.

But wait there's more.

Leong speaks THAI as well (0:18s mark):

He apparently speaks Japanese too:

And another reason why Leong is kickass? He is always there to report the news. Always.

Here's Leong coming back from his own holiday in Batam and filing a report from the Ferry Terminal just because he can. Poor bloke didn't even have time to take off his backpack:

This was what he reported:

"(Strong wind blowing) I am here at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal Station where I just returned from a private trip from Batam back home in Singapore. I observed that the police coast guards officers are appearing to be more vigilant, as my ferry approach (sic) the Singapore waters. The police coast guards navigated their vessels next to our ferry, where two officers boarded and conducted a routine check. While I understand that this is part of standard procedure, it does appear that the police coast guards are being more vigilant in light of the attacks in Jakarta".

This is Leong working on Christmas Day in Malaysia, reporting about a horrific car accident:

This is poor Leong working on New Year's Eve to share a public service announcement:

This is Leong looking bright and cheery on the first day of school at 7.40am, after interviewing commuters at the Tan Kah Kee station for more than an hour:

And when he's not in front of the camera, he doubles up as a cameraman. He gives a pretty good first person perspective of an anti-terror exercise:

Unfortunately, we could not find the video where he play-acted as one of the many "victims" of the simulated terror attack; he shared the real fear he felt even though it was just an exercise in that clip.

Thank you Leong Wai Kit. You set an impossibly high bar for broadcast journalists.

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