My son Noa Bleu had a swimimng competition in Kuala Lumpur this weekend. Malaysia against Singapore.

I am doing the Mom thing in the morning alo visiting the Petronas Twin Tower which used to be the tallest buildings in the world.

Then, I got ready to judge at the Miss Universe Malaysia 2012 pageant, it is a weekly TV program in the same style as American Next Top Model, and highly popular in Malaysia right now. It was fun, and my first time to accept to be a judge at any other pageant than mine, except for magazines.

I had Benji picking me up at my hotel at 3 pm. The journey to BeautyCamp where the 10 girls are living together in a huge house, was about 30-40mins. I was introduced by Andrea Fonseka, the Miss Universe National Director in Malaysia, to the finalists, they were in casual clothes, in a casual setting in the house living room. Each girls introduced themselves, the cameras qere rolling. They all speak fluently English and are all quite smart and elegant.

Then we will move to the judging set, which is located in another HUGE house within the same secured compound and we discussed the performance and standings of the girls, and the judging began at around 7pm. As this was the final judging before the live-telecast on November 10th, the girls were wearing their evening gowns. We spoke to them one by one and asked questions.

Then we decided on the bottom 6 girls, (was really hard, as there are only 10 finalists!), and give the bad news – we told them how we have made the decision and how they can try to improve.

Then at 9.30pm, we all drove back to KL, and Andrea hosted us for dinner at Jogoya’s flagship Japanese buffet restaurant on the Relish Floor of Starhill Gallery, together with Deborah, Julia and Hans.

The JUdges: Hans, the Gorges Clooney of Malaysia (Actor and movie producer);

Andrea Fonseka and beautiful Julia (Starhill Gallery Marketing Director)

So many cameras everywhere, a serious production! and… with Maslin backstage:)

The finalists after the judging, they are good friends, good to see!

Fun experience!Good luck everyone. I have 3 favorites.