Fourteen-year-old ballet boy Lam Chun-wing's admission to the L'Ecole de Danse de Paris, a prestigious ballet school in France, has become the talk of the town. Inevitably, comparisons are being made between Chun-wing and the boy lead in the famous 2000 film Billy Elliot.
But the comparison isn't wholly apt. In the film, Billy, an English lad, is keen on pursuing his love of ballet despite ridicule from others. Chun-wing has not encountered such opposition. Rather, he was opposed to ballet himself.
'Unlike Billy, I was dead set against doing ballet at first,' the Form Three student from STFA Lee Shau Kee College recalls.
'When my mum sent me to learn ballet, I didn't want to stay in the room, as there were a lot of girls.'
Chun-wing's mother works as a secretary at a ballet school and 'pushed' her son into becoming a dancer when he was seven.
The boy has spent the past seven years honing his skills.