Before I surrendered my soul to the low-paying, high-stress, dead-end world of journalism, I had always dreamed of being a musician.

GOING to the studio in Barcelona, Spain, where footballer Lionel Messi was about to shoot an advertising campaign felt like entering some top secret government spy meeting.

It must be pretty exciting to be sitting in a studio, waiting for a football superstar to appear. Ian Yee has been doing just that all week.

A COUPLE of weeks ago, I listened to my grandfather’s life story for the first time.

Last week, my grandfather taught me about something the Chinese call the “Five Blessings” in life, or Wu Fu Lin Men.