20-08-2012 蘋果日報 Apple Daily 副刊

http://hkm.appledaily.com/detail.php?guid=16617818&category_guid=vice&category=daily

故友、故居 - 李碧華

看拍賣新聞，見故友名字。

隨着家人爭產官司於年前終極敗訴後，梅艷芳的遺產解凍陸續出售，去年底拍賣一批珠寶首飾遺物，近日是一個物業單位，雖拍至1,040萬，但最終仍因未達底價而收回。

...初時一怔，還以為是壽山村道的恆安閣，原來是跑馬地另一間。曾見傳媒潛入故居，拍到略為蒙塵之舊物，日常用品隨手而放，平凡而自在，過了一天又一天，過了一年又一年──人一走，馬上凍結，從此沒有生活氣息了。舊物長在相同位置，主人永遠不再用它。我們曾經坐在那兒，客人也永遠不會重來，椅上沒有餘溫。

這四千多呎壽臣山豪宅，阿梅在93年，以二千萬購入，住了近十年，走後冷了近十年。市值一億三，由遺產管理人負責託管。

這個晚上有點懷念她的人、歌、戲。還有走後託我代辦一件重要的事。很困難，幾乎束手無策的某個午夜，頹然坐在沙發上與「她」溝通，忽地全屋的燈滅了，黑暗而悽愴──但，後來變通，我還是盡力辦妥了。

常有投資者找我寫百變歌后的劇本，直至今年初也有。一一推卻，不寫，因為尊重故友。

Hello AMUIFANS:

Thank you very much for the posting.
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Below is Brief Translation for non-Chinese reading Mui-fans:

The article posted is written by the writer of the original "Rouge" novel, Bik-Wah Lee.
She wrote that one of Mui's properties was recently put out for auction,
(an apartment unit in Happy Valley).
The bidding price went up to $10,400,000 HKD but the deal never came through and the property was taken off from the list of auction items because that price was under the base price of the unit.

Then the author switched over to write about the property where Anita used to live on Shouson Hill Road. She said Anita bought that 4000 square feet unit in 1993 for $20,000,000 ($20 million). After she had lived there for close to 10 years and being vacant for almost 10 years now, the market value is at $130 million HKD, and being managed by the estate management people. (Not sure if estate management is still done by the accounting firm assigned by the Court, or if things have now turned over to HSBC-- the bank originally designated by Anita to be the Trustee.)

Tonight, she misses her--- the person, the songs, and the movies.
She said Anita ( after her passing) had once "asked her" to do something very important.
It was a difficult task and just when she could not figure out how to fulfill Anita's request, all the lights in her house went off one night and she, sitting on her sofa, "communicated" with Anita. She later made some modifications to work around the issue and did manage to complete the task that Anita had asked her to do to the best of her abilities.

This author said there have often been investors , even up till the beginning of this year, who asked her to write scripts about "The Ever Changing Diva". She turned down all of them. She said that she would not write (scripts about her) out of respect for this old friend.

Hopefully Li Pik Wa will change her mind soon.