Nimble Leslie proves a point

Submitted by Narayan24 on Tue, 23/06/2009 - 8:55am

Falling again and again in whatever field he takes, 54-year-old Leslie Vatucawaqa says that he is not about to give up yet.

The staunch believer in life is about the survival of the fittest says that there were countless times in his life when he was going to give up altogether, but the fighting spirit in him motivated him to continue.

Way back in 1978, Leslie was working in the capital city doing odd jobs here and there and when a recruitment drive for the Fiji Military Forces was advertised, he decided to try it out.

With high hopes, Leslie attended the interview only to be disheartened a few weeks later that his name was not included in the intake list.

“Right there and then, I felt that the whole world had closed in on me and I went around for a few days moping around but then I thought to myself that I had just about had enough,