Crash course in Buddhism

Singer Nicholas Tse Ting-fung, who last Saturday crashed his fourth sports car in less than two years, has ditched his record company's fung shui master, 'Uncle Chan'. Instead, the 21-year-old hopes to drive away his bad luck with the help of girlfriend Faye Wong's Tibetan Buddhism master, Lama Zopa Rinpoche. As part of his pledge to the new master, Tse (left) now sports a Tibetan Buddhist dagger on a rainbow-coloured string round his neck. If it succeeds in slowing him down, the pendant will be a great investment at $1,000 - a fraction of the $3.7 million worth of cars he's sent to the scrapyard. Unfortunately for Tse, of the four pranged cars - a Ferrari, a Porsche, an Audi and a Toyota Altezza - only the latter wasn't written off. It was, of course, the cheapest of the lot at $200,000.