| Ladies find my grey
hair irresistible
By Christy Anyanwu
Tuesday, March
15, 2005
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Chris Abamba
Photos: SHOLA CREATIVE
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Chris Abamba works in one of the most popular automobile
companies in Lagos as a system analyst. This afternoon you
find him at work and he proudly tells you he’s a masterpiece
working on a P.C.
As you watch him displaying so much creativity, you discover
another side to the man. One other thing that gives him satisfaction
is his modelling career which he holds onto passionately.
Presently, he has featured in bill boards advert and appeared
as cover pages models in the print media. He goes down memory
lane to recount some of his shooting|location experiences
for Daga, Emzor, FCMB and Eko International bank.
Interestingly, this passion started as an adventure and he
unfolds how he stumbled into modelling in 1993. "I used
to have flair for modelling. I was a fashion freak right from
when I was young and the opportunity came through a female
friend who runs an advertising outfit. I embraced the idea
and that was how it started.
"Though I had a couple of casting and training, I didn’t
need much grooming per se. I often get my appointment through
phone calls."
Ask him how he gets inspiration and he says:"Inspiration
comes from above. It is something in you. I have always wanted
to be myself as a role model in whatever I do.
Abamba as a model loves being casual and quickly adds that
he doesn’t like anything that has a label.
"It fades but when you are simple and know how to make
yourself good in casuals then you can make statements. I’m
not a loud person; I love simple wears."
Taking you down memory lane, he tells you about his schooling
at the Government College, Eric Moore in Surulere where he
finished in 1987. He proceeded to the Federal School of Arts
and Science, Lagos, before his higher education.
Recalling his school day escapades, Abamba says he was a fine
boy, which made girls to flock around him always. "I
was able to discipline myself. What I know I can’t end,
I don't jump into. I don’t make promises I can’t
keep. I hate seeing myself as a heart breaker and the only
way you can discipline yourself is that you don’t jump
into relationships knowing full well you can’t end."
One feature in his body that ladies find irresistible is his
grey hair. "My grey hair has been there for a while now
and people tell me it’s so romantic. I could remember
when I went to ‘Chocolate Royal’ in Victoria Island
recently and a lady walked up to me and screamed: "I
love your hair, did you spray it?' I told her it is natural.
I felt on top of the world about that comment."
Abamba, who hails from Delta State, finally got hooked to
a beautiful lady he met last year while on official assignment
at Abuja . As soon as you asked him to talk about his wife,
Abimbola, he smiles and replies: "When I saw my wife
at Abuja, we just started talking.I came back to Lagos and
the contact was renewed because we are always talking on the
phone and sending e-mails. At the end of the day, I started
having this feeling I’ve never had for any woman. Within
one month, I knew this surely would be my wife", says
the 6.3inch model.
Does he maintain a beauty routine? " Once in a while.
I have a gym at home, I gymn once a week. Funny enough I don’t
eat much. I might eat once a day. Sometimes, it might not
occur to me that I have not eaten till evening.When I eat,
I go for rice, plaintain, pounded yam and egusi soup."
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