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Hair-raising high life on Web site

We've been reading a local woman's I-Life story.

I-Life is a secure online credit card produced by HKT and HSBC.

The card's Web site includes feature stories and a lifestyle section. It has interviews with local heros and heroines.

Heroines such as Sammi Cheng. Hers is the story of one woman's life-long battle with badly conditioned hair.

'My hair belongs to the hard type,' the singer confessed. 'Once my puppy lover and I went to the park. I had put a lot of conditioner when I was washing my hair the day before the date imagining that my hair would give off sweet fragrance in the breeze.

'The wind was blowing quite hard. My hair fell onto my boyfriend's face and at once he yelled 'What is it that's so rough?!'.'

I-Life's correspondent tells us that 'the frankness of her puppy lover has shattered Sammi's dream of having long, smooth hair'.

Still, at least the story has a happy ending. Sammi cut her hair short, and lots of people think it looks nice. Yes, she's quite a woman, our Sammi.

We're told the singer's career took off when she entered a local TV contest out of sheer curiosity 'to see whether there was fiddling behind the scene or not'.

Not entirely sure what she means by that, but we'll give Sammi the benefit of the doubt and assume she's a fan of stringed instruments.

Paper weight: Those lawyers sure know how to put the paper into paperwork.

Their tree-razing ways drew a weary sigh from a judge in the Max Share winding-up appeal.

Before passing judgment, Mr Justice Rogers drew attention to 'the number of documents that have been copied for the purpose of this appeal'.

There was of course the usual core bundle of essential papers. Then there were extra bundles of information housed in a bunch of box files. Twenty-seven box files, to be exact. Together, they contained more than 5,600 pages.

Each of the three judges received an entire set, as did various people on both sides of the dispute.

And how many of those 27 bundles were referred to during the hearing?

One . . . referred to once.

Perhaps the lawyers were worried that the case was too complex, and bringing in the extra details in those papers would create confusion, making it hard to see the forest for the trees.

Mind you, the way they're going, soon everyone will have an unobstructed view.

Fashion trip: Hong Kong grand opening parties are dull. Not once have we ever been to one that started out as a department store's ladies' wear gala opening, and ended up as an orgy.

Let's face it. Hong Kong just isn't France.

The debauchery in question broke out at the grand re-opening of the women's wear section in the staid Printemps store, The Guardian newspaper tells us.

All the usual supermodels, actors, celebrities, designers and rock stars were there, plus a handful of technicians to work the lights.

'The guests were a flock of drag queens and other nocturnal fauna, equipped with the entire panoply of drugs necessary for them to lose their inhibitions,' the technicians' union said in a letter of complaint to store management.

'Under the influence, many of them exhibited themselves on the stage either semi or utterly naked, and called on the remainder to take part in a gigantic group sex experience.'

Printemps was indignant. 'Only five people were taken ill through alcohol,' said their response. 'And if any excesses did take place in ladies wear these were only marginal and not in the least representative of the evening as a whole.'

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