FOR the second day running, I found myself joining the afternoon tea set. This time hosted by TVB at the Furama to welcome back from the US West Coast the presenters and crew of its popular magazine programme, Eye On Hongkong - although the show they canned over there is predictably called Eye on California.
What contrasting tales are to be had when meeting a waffle (what other collective noun can one use to adequately describe such a grouping?) of TVB presenters.
I can't exactly remember what brought it about, but Gloria Wu was lamenting the fact that everywhere she goes people keep mistaking her as Japanese - resulting in the inevitable fulsome bowing and ''ah so-ing''.
''I just don't understand it,'' she lamented. ''I mean, I wouldn't mind if I had the yen to show for it.'' (So philosophical, that girl).
Katie Ledger, on the other hand, had a more pleasant story to impart. Interviewing CCN talk-show host Larry King last week she complimented him on the tie he was wearing (Katie, as it happens, was wearing a tie, too).
Larry, whose proud boast is that he owns one of the finest collections of ties in the entire global village, suggested they swap.