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Aliff Aziz

Posted: 17th May 2012 by R.AGE in Get Personal
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By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my   ALIFF Aziz is seriously ready to carve a name for himself in the international music industry. The 21-year-old Singaporean singer has been working hard for over six years in the scene and is not planning to slow down any time soon. “I really want to do all I can in [...]

By NASA MARIA ENTABAN alltherage@thestar.com.my A LITTLE over two years ago, Satira Diana Borhannuddin found a way to turn her love for art, decoration and desserts into a successful business and most recently, a web show. She hosts Piece Of Cake, an online show on how to make cakes, cupcakes, trifles, cookies and other delicious [...]

  KEANA Reinu (doesn’t her name sound like Keanu Reeves?) posted a video of her covering Train’s Drive By on YouTube with no particular intent. But a few months after that, she found her video shortlisted as one of the six finalists of a contest organised by the band – coincidentally for the best cover [...]

  Growing up in Kuala Lumpur, Yeoh Percy, 27, never thought that one of her biggest dreams would ever come true. Percy, who graduated from Limkokwing University of Creative Technology with a degree in journalism, had always been interested in dancing. However, she never thought that she would end up being the professional belly dancer [...]

Who would’ve thought you could make a business out of how flakey Malaysians are? Well, brothers Ooi Eu Veng (right) and Eu Gene did, and success has come in a rather timely fashion for them. Inspired by the raft of concerts held in Malaysia last year – Maroon 5, Bruno Mars, Justin Bieber and also [...]

MIHO Yeap doesn’t just act for the sake of acting. The 16-year-old student wants her audience to come out of a play feeling like they were a part of it. The Kuala Lumpur native sees acting as more than just rehearsing lines, getting into character and throwing facial expressions and body language into the mix [...]

Many people talk about how one can be successful by running the extra mile, executing a brilliant plan, or even better, seizing opportunities by killing two birds with one stone. This very much means stepping out of one’s comfort zone and entering a place where many may find it wearisome if one were to last [...]

KATHRYN Lagrosa Rao’s fashion designs is a portrayal of who she is as a person, and she is determined that they be authentically hers. The 20-year-old fashion student at Raffles College of Higher Education is conscious of not falling into the usual pitfall of appealing to an audience, rather than being true to her artistry. [...]

Get personal: Kelly Siew

Posted: 16th March 2012 by R.AGE in Get Personal
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We like to call 28-year-old Kelly Siew “The Singing Doctor”, but don’t get the wrong idea – she doesn’t diagnose patients to the tune of The Sound Of Music. Cool as that would be, Siew, a licensed doctor back in Australia where she completed her medical studies, doesn’t practise medicine any more. About a year [...]

Get Personal: Paul Henry

Posted: 9th March 2012 by R.AGE in Get Personal

You know when a kid tells you they’re going to be an animal conservationist or something like that, you tend to go “aw, that’s cute” but at the same time think, “like that’s ever gonna happen”. Well that’s because it sounds like a fanciful idea – you get to go camping every day, work with [...]