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Last week’s tag: #Hipster

Posted: 17th August 2012 by R.AGE in #RAGEchat
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  You think being called a hipster is hard? Try getting people to tell you what they think of hipsters. We ran a #RAGEchat after last week’s cover story, and here’s what you Tweeples had to say about them: @MidorCole: Definition of a hipster: someone with too much free time and way too many personal [...]

Last week’s tag: #FastDifference

Posted: 10th August 2012 by R.AGE in #RAGEchat, Stories
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The holy month of Ramadan is when Muslims practise a lifestyle that focuses on purification, self-reflection, and discipline as they fast and abstain from food and liquids. In our cover story last week, we featured young Muslims who are going the extra mile by abstaining themselves from not just food and water, but also from [...]

  There was a story in The Star last Wednesday that said local educators believed a greater focus on basic etiquette was needed to deal with the increasingly self-absorbed attitude of the younger generation. The story was, of course, a response to the Reader’s Digest list of Least Courteous Cities, which named Kuala Lumpur as [...]

IN a move to encourage healthy living and fitness, the Health Ministry recently announced that they will be introducing a ‘no lift day’ in the ministry’s complexes, hospitals and health departments after the fasting month. On that particular day, which will be held on a weekly basis, everyone will have to take the stairs – [...]

  After our #RAGEchat made the news on Wednesday, revealing that most young people were actually against the Education Ministry’s plan to allow handphones in schools, several teachers tweeted us on the issue as well. Most of them seemed equally opposed to the idea, as they believed it would cause unnecessary distractions, more disciplinary issues [...]

Last week’s tag: #CrowdFunding

Posted: 13th July 2012 by R.AGE in #RAGEchat, Stories

OUR #RAGEchat was abuzz with activity last week when heaps of tweeps took to twitter to voice their opinions on crowd funding, the subject our R.AGE cover story. Joining the discussion were three of our interviewees – environmental activist Adrian Yeo (@ninoamigo), dancer Samantha Tan (@Samantha_Tan), and content executive Syatirah Safran (@syats), who have all [...]

Have you heard of the term “Phone Stacking”? Well, it literally means stacking phones on top of one another (not until it falls, of course), which is a practice to encourage people to interact with one another without the distractions of cell phones, or smartphones to be more specific. In our previous cover story, we [...]

Last week’s tag: #dresscodes

Posted: 28th June 2012 by R.AGE in #RAGEchat, Stories

RECENT reports of a secondary school student getting reprimanded over wearing a miniskirt to an official event off school grounds sparked controversy. We asked the Tweeples if they thought there was too much emphasis on dress codes nowadays; whether young people obsess over what they wear; and also to discuss some of the crazy dress [...]

    THE highlight of last weekend was none other than Cheer 2012, the annual inter-school cheerleading competition which is in its 13th year. The competition took place at Stadium Malawati, Shah Alam, Selangor, where screaming fans and supporters packed the stadium to watch all 34 cheerleading teams compete against one another. During #RAGEchat, some [...]

EARLIER in the week, pop star Miley Cyrus and actor Liam Hemsworth announced their engagement, sparking plenty of debate over whether they were too young to take this life-changing step. At 19, former Hannah Montana star Miley is the younger of the two. But at 22, actor Liam, who also happens to be the younger [...]