Third time's the charm

Wong Yat-tung is arguably Hong Kong's only female triple threat: she's a successful model, actress and DJ. The 23-year-old has adopted many personas over the years, but the most well known is that of DJ Miss Yellow. However, before her rise to fame behind the turntables, she was performing at another kind of table - playing table-tennis.

Raised by her grandparents after her parents divorced, she spent a lot of time on the streets finding ways to entertain herself, such as playing table-tennis. She fell in love with the sport and even at the age of eight was making an impression. "I don't have siblings, so I [would] always be alone; I went to school alone, I went out to play alone. Yes I played with others, but I was still alone."

Looking back, she believes her lonely childhood imbued a strong sense of independence in her, and eventually gave her the confidence to make her mark in the male-dominated world of DJ'ing.

But before Miss Yellow was born, Wong was already known as a model and an actress. After school, the then 17-year-old would often go to castings and photo shoots for various modelling jobs. Her ability to learn quickly was the key to her success in the two crafts.

When she started acting on TV, Wong was surprised to discover just how much she had to learn - for one, that it wasn't quite good enough to study her lines only the night before a shoot.

Experiences such as this helped Wong learn the inner workings of the modelling and acting industries quickly. After two years of modelling, she entered the 1999 Miss Hong Kong beauty competition "for the experience".