Stuart Weitzman and Glam event at Pavillion

Last week, Stuart Weitzman and Glam magazine hosted an event at their Pavillion store.
Many familiar faces were there, such as Cheryl Samad..

Syafinaz Selamat...

with Syafinaz and Wirda Adnan, editor of Glam magazine...

I really shouldn't take pictures with supermodels, but Deborah Henry is so sweet. Everytime we see each other at events, we are sure to chat for a while.

Five Malaysian personalities and celebrities were invited to design and decorate their own Stuart Weitzman shoe.
One of my idols, Datuk Sheila Majid with her shoe design.

Deborah with her shoe design.

Pics of the shoe designs on display.

This one was my absolute favourite out of all of them.
It reminds me of my favourite showgirl, Dita von Teese.

Video of Lord and Duke play fighting

Latest pics of Lord and Duke

Winners of the Guerlain Mascara Competition

Congratulations to the following winners of the Guerlain mascara sets :

Norliana Zahiah, Norazrin, Norhaniza Mohamed Sobry,
Liyana Mohamad Ariff and Norafni @ Farlina.

To all the others who tried, thank you and don't give up because there will be more competitions and giveaways coming up. All kinds of things you will love!

So keep coming back and checking cause all giveaway
details will be posted here at random times.

Guerlain Le 2 Mascara competition.

I loooooooooove mascara! I don't know of a woman who doesn't love what mascara can do to your eyelashes. Longer, lusher, more glamourous.

Guerlain has just launched a new mascara, the Guerlain Le 2 mascara. It's beautiful and even the packaging is sleek with a twist.

And guess what, I have 5 of the following sets to give away to lucky readers!

Le 2 Mascara Volume Noir 2 Laque 11

Le 2 Mascara Bleu 2 Nimes 40

Quad Ombre Eclat (4 color eyeshadow)

Rouge G Lipstick

Total value - RM596

So hurry up! First 5 people who email in will win!

Email sasha_a_b@yahoo.com the following details

Title of email - Guerlain Mascara Competition

Name, IC No, Postal Address, Contact Number

Dansa book available at mphonline.com

Dansa - A Dance Journey is available on www.mphonline.com. Just search for the title 'Dansa' and you will find it. And acccording to the website, if you spend more than RM150, you get free delivery within Malaysia. Cool!

Get a copy if you haven't already. I promise you, you will like it. :)

Mano - A cat in London

This is Mano.

He lives in a little convenience store or as we call her 'kedai runcit' in London. My sister first met him when she went to this little shop to buy the newspapers and suddenly saw him so of course asked the shopowner about him. He said he bought Mano as a present for his grand daughter and she comes to see him at the shop everday after school. Everyone who visits this shop is sure to ask 'where's Mano?' and it seems he has been getting more customers coming to the shop since Mano has been with him. I told the shopowner that Mano is his 'pembawa rezeki'. When I explained to him waht that means, he totally agreed with me.

My sister said he gets bigger and fluffier expecially in the winter. He doesn't like being carried so all we could do is keep trying to pat him. He looks 'garang' but he's not really.

So cute...

Pictures from the 8th Cameronian Arts Awards

Last night it was announced that the 8th Cameronian Arts Awards will be the last! Well, let just hope not for too long and that someone will bring it back.

It was a bittersweet farewell for many and I know this awards show will be missed by many. Two ladies, Kathy and Jenny who came together and formed kakiseni.com and changed the face of the Malaysian arts industry in a way no one expected.

My personal congratulations to Kathy and Jenny who faced much criticism throughout the whole 8 years they worked on this awards show. They persevered and now that it can no longer continue, many more will realise what a positive impact they had on the local industry.

So here are some photos from last night and two short videos from the closing performance.

Some pictures of the presenters.

Cuci the Musical won audience choice award for best Musical theatre show. Familiar faces Harith Iskandar, Hans Isaac, Douglas Lim, Dato Zahim Albakri, Awie and Stephen Rahman Hughes were all up on stage to accept the award.

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Part 1 - Video of the closing 8th Cameronian Arts Awards

Note - these videos can be viewed better in a wide screen format on the actual youtube.com site. Don't know why but here on this blog setting it crops the right hand side of the visuals a little bit. :)

Part 2 - Video of the closing performance of the 8th Cameronian Arts Awards

The fattest cat I have ever seen

This is my husband's cat that has been with him for almost 8 years. As you can see, he is really fat. But it's not my husband's fault. When he was given to my husband by a neighbour, he was already fat. I am too scared to carry him cause I am afraid I will hurt my back! He only gets up for food. We have tried to put him on a diet and get him to exercise, but it doesn't work. He is happy and really doesn't care what anyone thinks of him. So we just let him be.

lord and duke still cute friends

Butterflies

I don't know why but last time I put these videos on this site they wouldn't play, but now I figured out how to load it onto youtube first then put it here. yay!

These two short videos were taken by me at the Penang Butterfly Farm over Chinese New Year holidays this year. It's such a pretty little place where so many butterflies fly around freely in the enclosed area. If you are ever in Penang, you must visit it!

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell

I love this song from one of Marilyn Monroe's movies... I think it's from the movie Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend...

Love it love it love it!

Mean Kitty Song

This video is soooo cute! And the kitten looks like my Joberg!

launch of sunsilk's latest range

On Tuesday I went to the launch of the latest range of hair care products from Sunsilk at Euphoria Ministry of Sound Sunway Lagoon. There are 7 types different hair treatments specially created by 7 hair care experts from around the world with products to treat all kinds or hair conditions.

There was a fashion show featuring well known Malaysian supermodel Amber Chia but I kept looking at the very Lady Gaga creation worn by one of the other models.

How weird and cool all at the same time!

The range designed by damaged hair expert Thomas Tow flew in from London especially for the event and shared some tips with all present at the event on how to prevent and repair damaged hair.

Firstly, constant styling, blow drying, sun exposure, tying your hair too tightly and not conditioning properly all contributes to damaged hair. He understands it's part of modern day life to dress up, style our hair and experiment with different hair colours, but since we do that, we have to take the time to look after it too.

When I went to meet Thomas, I asked him what temperature should the water be when we wash our hair. His suggestion is not too hot cause that will irritate the scalp and cause it to become oily and not too cold. Most importantly, a temperature that is most comfortable.

You should be able to run your fingers smoothly through your hair. If there is resistance, that means there is dryness and the cuticles are open, that's what is causing the friction.

Just as I was leaving, I received this really cool case. I couldn't wait to open it!

And when I did, inside was the full range of the different shampoos.

Cool! Can't wait to try them all!

lord derbyshire is much better now!

schizo - the real boss of the house!

me.... cooking?!

These pictures were taken at the Maggi booth at the last Jom Heboh at Bukit Jalil... and I had to cook! For anyone who has seen how I move in a kitchen they will know what a disaster this is! But surprisingly with the expert Maggi chef with me, I managed to cook 3 dishes - nasi goreng, kicap ayam and udang cili. And I didn't burn the food!

duke stealing lord's food.... And lord never says anything!

lord and duke... Still so cute!

more deaths..

Last week, my colleague who was my producer for the business program I was involved in last year titled 'Stockwatch' told me to read the newspaper about the death of one of the analysts we regularly interviewed. His name, Choon Khuat Hock. A really nice man who we always looked forward to seeing. Worse still, his death is a suspected murder case. My condolences to his family and colleagues.

Then on Friday, one of my husband's cats who was sick for a while died. I had to call my husband to inform him and bury the cat with my sister in law. Not a fun thing to do.

And then yesterday, I heard that Yanie, one of my dear friend's, Vernon aka Mr Manager and Ning's former artiste passed away due to a lung tumour.

Sigh, and yet life goes on for everyone....

'not in the mood' is not a good excuse...

Yesterday towards the end of the day, about the time I have to get ready to go for bootcamp training, i was sooooooo not in the mood to go. I felt really comfortable sitting in the air-conditioned office working on my laptop.

But then I reminded myself, 'not in the mood' is not a good excuse for not going to training...

so very reluctantly, I packed up my stuff and drove to the training field.

And the session was really hard.

But all of us in the group survived. As we always do.

And I am surprised at how much more I can do now compared to when I started to 2 and a half months ago.

As one of my trainers told me before, 'there is no way you cannot benefit from exercise'.

So I will continue to persevere. Eventhough there are times when I may not be in the mood.

:) :)

hmmmmm...

I found this photo of Victoria Beckham online taken at one of the Oscar's parties. Hmmmm... this dress is from her latest collection and generally I like her designs but this one looks a bit bland to me. Not sure about it... Anyway, she still looks good.

an old pic..

I was browsing through jay ismail's facebook album when i found this picture he took of me. Would be about 2 years ago now.

latest pics of duke and lord

My favourite Oscar's red carpet looks....

Yes, I know I am always attracted to the sequinned and embellished dresses. I can't help but wonder how much this dress weighed. I have a fully sequinned baju kurung which weighs 3kg so I think dress will be about 4kg because of the train at the back.

Jennifer Lopez looks like she has definitely lost all her preganancy weight. I love this dress eventhough is could look like a wedding cake but I think she made it work.

I like this dress but I think the colour is a bit pale for Demi Moore. But hey, how old is this woman? Isn't she getting close to 50? She looks fantastically fabulous. If I look half as good at her age I will be so happy. But she does work out a lot and there were stories at one point that she only eats raw food. I would love to know what her beauty secrets really are!

lord derbyshire update

i went back to the vet and requested to see lord derbyshire's x-ray cause i wanted to see for myself how bad his fracture is and it's not that bad. A hairline fracture on his right hip. Vet said he will regain full strength in time, just has to rest.

lord derbyshire's x-ray

Interview on BFM 89.9 The Business Station

When I checked my phone after I finished bootcamp on Monday evening, I noticed a few messages on my phone from friends, all saying they were listening to me on the radio.

I was interviewed on BFM 89.9 The Business Station and I must complimemt the deejay who interviewed me. She was very organised and prepared for the interview and had done her homework prior to meeting me. A real professional.

To listen to the podcast of the interview, please click here. or go to bfm.com.my and enter my name in the 'search the site' section on the right hand side of the website.

I chose all of the songs they played during the interview too. :)