Aaya is in Malaysia to shoot her third DVD, and to do a photo shoot for the February issue of Seigura magazine.
Leaving Narita, she was approached by a reporter. "Hirano-san, Hirano-san, do you have any comment?" "No comment." This happens all the time, she said in her blog. (click images to enlarge)
Arriving in Kuala Lumpur late on Monday, her staff greeted her at the entrance to the hotel.
The view from her hotel window Monday night.
"Kebaya." She wore local dress. (Aaya wrote "kubaya," but I believe it should be "kebaya.")
"The real thing." People there said she looked cute in a veil. I think so, too.
She posed with the "Malaysian mother" who sold the dresses, and was a great help to them in the shooting. Aya said she was "so nice."
Her schedule was so tight that she had no time for shopping, and just had to escape for a brief dash through a mall.
She enjoyed Vietnamese pho for dinner, followed by durian, "the king of fruit," which she said she found delicious. But what is that alien thing in the durian? She found it weird, but she ate it anyway.
I'm not sure, but I haven't heard that Aaya has ever been to any countries other than Japan and the US. EDIT: As danie~ points out, she was also in Bali for her second photo collection.
Here are a couple more photos, from Dec. 31. She went for a massage and then had to rush to get to the shoot, Five people piled into a taxi, with four people -- not Aya, I don't think -- in the small back seat:
The hotel seems to her almost like a country estate, with trees growing around it: