She made local and overseas headlines during an Asian beauty pageant when she initially wrote two out of four Chinese characters for a greeting, Happy New Year, incorrectly.

The mistakes by Singapore's representative to the Miss Asia Pageant, held recently in Hong Kong, ignited a firestorm on the Internet.

But Miss Jodi Mohd Nizam Lee, 27, a Singapore permanent resident who was born in Sabah, Malaysia, calls it a blessing in disguise because it led to her finding her long-lost father.

Miss Lee and her Chinese Singaporean mother relocated to Singapore from Sabah when she was a year old, after her parents divorced. She has not seen her dad since.

Said Miss Lee: "With a few strokes of my pen, I received publicity. Although unintended, it was a stroke of genius."

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