It's a girl thing..

This weekend (24th & 25th November) at the Kuala Lumpur exhibition Centre is an event called 'It's A Girl Thing'. There will be booths on health and lot's of shopping booths.

As part of the event, there is a fashion theatre where I will be performing!

I would love you to come along and watch. My performance times are

Saturday - 1 pm


Sunday - 5 pm

If you're wondering who Shay is, he's an awesome dancer who's latest gig was touring and performing in Madonna's Confessions tour!




There are some absolutely fantastic dancers performing, doing funky hip hop moves and spins. Here they are enjoying a good meal after a hard day of rehearsals.


So do come along for a bit of fun over the weekend!


I even painted my nails purple to match Jovian's purple dress....

Isetan @ Gardens launch and meeting Key Ng

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old age..

old age is terrible, especially when loved ones around can only watch and feel helpless as the body fails.

I don't know if it's better to die suddenly or to die slowly due to illness.

If you know you're dying, maybe it can give one a chance to do things one wants to do before times up.

But if you go suddenly, you will know no pain...

In a world where so much is disposable and replaceable, the sheer permanence of death is just horrible.

All that's left then is hope that maybe tomorrow will be better.

Schizo???!!!!

As far as I remember, one of my cats, Schizo has mainly white fur with black and brown markings. So when I came home the other day to see this brown cat, I really thought a stray cat had just come in and made itself comfortable.

I then realise, it's actually Schizo!


Hey Schizo??!!! Where have you been and what on earth have you been doing???!!!

You need a bath!

That purple dress....

The purple dress that Jovian created for the launch of Beauty Secrets from the East will be making an appearance with me again on stage this weekend.

And if you're interested, you will be able to see me perform in it.

I will be sharing details with you very soon....

Yes, that's me...

Whether you believe it or not, this is actually a picture taken of me over the weekend.

I downloaded this photo from my fabulous friend's site Vernon aka Mr Manager.

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Alain Figaret launch on 'Style with Sasha'

Shirts are one of the most practical and versatile items of clothing in both a man's and woman's wardrobe.

Alain Figaret, a specialist shirt shop just opened at The Gardens.

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Daywear vs Nightwear

I have come to the definite conclusion that I do not find day wear as inspiring as evening wear.

Why?

Because I always seem to want to buy more evening dresses, and I love glittering evening shoes....

One of my closest friends on the other hand though dresses so beautifully during the day and finds it so hard to buy evening wear.

I have more evening and glittering shoes and bags than suitable practical day items. I love embroidered dressing gowns in velvet and chiffon too. I would rather wear something like that to lounge around the house in!

I'm going to blame my mother for this. Because all of the fashion shows my mother took me too when I was 5 were evening wear fashion shows. I thought that's how women are ALWAYS supposed to dress.

Really, why not?

Ducks in Perth

While I was out walking one day in Perth, I saw this little family of ducks in a little man made lake in East Perth.

It was so nice to watch them. The parents were very protective and the ducklings would not eat anything unless their parents fed it to them..

So so cute...

Gourmet food festival

About two weeks ago now I went to the launch of the Malaysian Gourmet Food Festival. I was so looking forward to it and couldn't wait to taste all of the yummy desserts.

The ballroom of the One World hotel was decorated quite beautifully with all of the different booths doing their best to out do each other's display.


I thought Tamarind Springs was the best though, with beautiful goddess like creature moving gracefully high above the crowds heads.


Some of the food was absolutely great... But I have to say I was disappointed with the desserts.

Why?

Because all the chocolate based desserts (which is the only kind of desserts I'm interested in!) had alcohol in them! And a lot of it too! They looked nice though.



And it was almost impossible to get just a simple glass of plain water. There was an absolute excess of wine, champagne and I don't know what other alcoholic drinks. Two of my friends who don't drink as well spent most of the night trying to get plain water to drink. We couldn't even get juice.

And do desserts REALLY have to have alcohol in them to taste good?!

Please, I just wanted a really good sinful chocolate dessert...

Maybe I should just go to Bakerzin to solve my chocolate craving.

Love the skirt...

Not long ago I did a shoot for L'Oreal in conjunction with Juara Lagu.

I love the skirt I wore on the shoot. Not exactly the easiest thing to walk in but felt beautiful to wear. I'm not so sure about the top though...

Chicago in London

The hit musical 'Chicago' which was also made into a movie starring Renee Zelweger, Ctherine Zeta Jones and Queen Latifah is on here in Kl this weekend.

I've had the pleasure of seeing this show on stage live twice and when I was in London recently, I watched it for the third time because I was very, VERY curious to see how Kelly Osbourne, famous daughter of slightly crazy Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne, would handle her role as Mama Morton.

For those who have seen the movie, Mama Morton was played by Queen Latifah.

Her singing wasn't bad at all, and it didn't make me want to run out of the theatre covering my ears. But I didn't feel her acting did the character any justice. Also, to be Mama Morton, you need to LOOK like a Mama Morton! Someone VERY authoritive and bossing the other girls around. The two leads looked older than her and so in scenes where she is trying to exert control and authority over a situation, it's very unconvincing. Queen Latifah just did it so well. In a way, I felt sorry for Kelly Osbourne cause she was way over her head. I think Sharon Osbourne, if she could sing half decently would have been a better choice.

pics from London

The underground tube, my sole means of transportation, like many others in London.

In front of the Underground map which I referred to so many times in a day.

The beautiful blue sky that greeted me everyday.

I love these red telephone boxes. I wouldn´t mind having one in my house.

Buenos Aires

Hello, Buenos Aires

Get this, just look at me dressed up,

somewhere to go

We'll put on a show

(lyrics from song 'Buenos Aires' from musical Evita)

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A kebaya portrait

The painting above is an abstract portrait painting of me done by Malacca based artist Everlyne Tai whom I happened to meet while shooting Beauty Secrets from the East in Malacca.

I absolutely love the colour of the kebaya and the detailing on the jewellery...

I met Anya Hindmarch again!

A few years ago, I met Anya Hindmarch for the first time at Carcosa for the launch of her Be A Bag campaign.

And just recently, I met her again during the launch of her new store at Pavillion.

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red shoes

When my cousin's little girl was over at my house recently, she happened to see my red shoes. She kept pointing to the shoes and to her dress, indicating that my shoes would match better with her dress than the ones she was wearing.

To her parents, I do not accept responsibility for her aking you to buy her red shoes to match her dress!

back to roots....

I'm excited, nervous and terrified....

Why?

Because wonderful new things are happening and I have to keep up..

And I also have to brush up my dance technique....

A Hat Fiasco on Style with Sasha

Sometimes I remember things so clearly and accurately as if it just happened when in actual fact it was years ago..

And then there are other times when I forget what I did two minutes ago..

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South Africa - Majalah 3, finally on air!

Finally, after weeks of me sharing stories and photos from South Africa, it's going to go on air very soon!

Above is photo of me with the car I drove along the Garden Route while I was there as part of the winners group of Shell's Made to Move competition. It was an awesome car to drive!

I have to thank and give a big congratulations to Shell for this trip. Usually I'm always sceptical about competitions, are they really real? Do these big prizes really exist?

With Shell, I know they really do! It was a fantastic trip and now you will get to see it!

And, I have another competition! You're going to LOVE this prize.....

5 lucky winners will win a RM50 Shell petrol voucher! (Thank you Shell)

And the question is - Name 4 locations we visited while in South Africa.

First 5 emails with the correct answers emailed to sasha_a_b@yahoo.com will win. Please also include your Full name, IC number, Postal address and handphone number.

So don't forget to watch

Majalah 3

Saturday, 9 pm

20th October 2007

exclusively on TV3

And just to share with you some photos of the director and cameraman with me on this trip, Fadli Mazlan. Fadli and I worked together on Beauty Secrets from the East as well. I think he has done a fantastic job on this documentary.

Fadli and I call these pictures 'gambar bukti buat kerja' (photos proving we're doing our job)

And the lovely guy with Fadli and I in this photo is Ben. Thank you Ben for looking after us so well...

sandy slippers

I love this photo. While I was at Perhentian Island for the Perhentian Island Challenge, as I was sitting on a rock on the sandy beach, someone said to me, "hey sasha, look, the sand has followed the shape of your slippers!"

So we took a photo....

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While in London recently, I met British designer Alice Temperley at Selfridges!

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Selamat Hari Raya

To my dear readers,

Wishing you a Selamat Hari Raya. May this be a time for you to create more happy memories with family and friends.

Kalau ada tersilap kata atau terasa tersinggung, dengan penuh hati saya meminta maaf.

Salam Muhibbah

In Bangkok

I just remembered that last year, when I was in Bangkok shooting Explorace Season 3, I met a really cute young elephant.

And these are the pictures that captured the moment..




I say elephants have personalities too and this darling was very warm and friendly. It's eyes were so trusting too...

animals in south africa

A baby elephant and it's Mummy... It's only a few days old...

And to me, this vulture looks like a mad scientist and reminds me of Albert Einstein cause of it's 'hair'...

Otters at Cango Wildlife Ranch - South Africa

I saw these adorable otters at the Cango Wildlife Ranch in South Africa, the same place where I met the cheetahs....

I loved watching them move in the water... Incredibly graceful...

And they kept looking at us and the expression on their face was the same as how my cats look at me when they are hungry...

"ummm....excuse me.... got anything good to eat? kinda hungry...."

So cute...

Otters are very playful animals and only have a life span of about 20 years. They love to eat frogs, fish and crabs. They fear crocodiles and pythons as they are the animals that eat them and no two otters have the same markings on their body....

I wish I could have otters as pets..

I also wish I could have cheetahs and tigers as pets..

Maybe I should just live at a zoo...

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Kira

It was this time last year that my dear little cat Kira went missing and died....

I haven't forgotten you my little one...

I hope you're somewhere happier and safer now....

more from south africa

sitting on an ostrich. there is such a thing as ostrich races as demonstrated by these two workers at the ostrich farm.I think they are such beautiful animals. But you wouldn't want to have them kick you with their sharp claws! The injuries could kill you!
such cute faces....

And just look at the feathers on this female ostrich. Having the feathers two toned like this is very rare...
more animals from south africa coming soon..