IMAGINE having to wake up at 4am every day with only four hours of sleep … just to cook for hundreds of people. Sounds exhausting? Well, that is exactly what nasi dagang seller Katipah Sulong, fondly known as Kak Pah by locals in Kuala Terengganu, does every day. Seventeen years ago, Kak Pah and her [...]
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Recipe for success
Posted: 14th June 2013 by R.AGE in BRATsTags: BRATs, Kak Pah, Kak Pah Nasi Dagang, Kuala Terengganu, Pantai Batu Burok, young journalist programme
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Making English fun
Posted: 14th June 2013 by R.AGE in BRATsTags: BRATs, English Theme Park, ExxonMobil, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu State Education Department, young journalist programme
TAKING a break from all the famous landmarks and places of interest in Kuala Terengganu, the participants of the BRATs workshop also dropped by the Tok Jiring “English Theme Park” (ETP). And no, it’s not a theme park where everything’s British. The ETP is actually an initiative by the Terengganu State Education Technology Department (TSETD) [...]
A sacred sight
Posted: 14th June 2013 by R.AGE in BRATsTags: BRATs, Crystal Mosque, Kuala Terengganu, young journalist programme
The Crystal Mosque in Kuala Terengganu is more than a place of worship. BEAUTIFUL mosques are a common sight in Malaysia, but how often does one see a mosque – and a crystal one, no less – floating on water? Well, the people of Kuala Terengganu do almost every day. The shimmering Crystal Mosque on [...]
The lure of Pulau Duyung
Posted: 14th June 2013 by R.AGE in BRATsTags: BRATs, Christine Rohani Longuet, Kuala Terengganu, Pulau Duyung, young journalist programme
CHRISTINE Rohani Longuet is a 70-year-old French boat-builder, author, homestay operator, ethnobotanist and Ph.D student who has been living in Pulau Duyung for the past 40 years. True story. It was almost surreal meeting Longuet in her traditional Malay home, built from cengal wood and beautifully appointed with old wooden furniture. She’d speak to her [...]
A sinking tradition
Posted: 14th June 2013 by R.AGE in BRATsTags: BRATs, Kuala Terengganu, traditional boat making, young journalist programme
SINCE he was 12, Asmawi Hasni’s hobby has been building boats. And we’re not talking about paper boats or model ships. We’re talking huge traditional wooden boats, some close to 20 feet tall and 100 feet long. Traditional Malay boats might sound boring to most young people now, but for Asmawi, they quickly became his [...]
Back to basic
Posted: 14th June 2013 by R.AGE in BRATsTags: batik, BRATs, Kuala Terengganu, pasar payang, serunding Terengganu, young journalist programme
Locals strive to keep traditions alive … some do it with a little twist. WAN NOR Affifah Wan Azizi loves Terengganu so much that she created a delicacy and named it after the east coast state. After years of selling serunding Kelantan (Kelantanese meat floss) with her mother, Hajjah Umar Bidah at Pasar Payang in Kuala [...]
Seberang Takir
Posted: 14th June 2013 by R.AGE in BRATsTags: BRATs, ikan bilis, kerepok lekor, Kuala Terengganu, Seberang Takir, young journalist programme
WHEN you ask most of the locals in Kuala Terengganu about Seberang Takir, they’ll most likely say think of two words – keropok lekor. True enough, when we arrived at the small kampung after taking a short boat ride, the first thing we saw were a few keropok lekor shops, all boiling the fresh fish [...]
East coast adventure
Posted: 14th June 2013 by R.AGE in BRATsTags: BRATs, Kuala Terengganu, young journalist programme
WE’RE back from yet another awesome BRATs workshop! Most of the R.AGE team was in Kuala Terengganu for four days last week facilitating the BRATs Kuala Terengganu 2013 workshop, and we had a great time working with the 40 participants. In case you don’t know, BRATs, The Star’s long-running young journalist programme, is run by [...]
Stories by Chia Chien Teng, Chiang Pang Fei, Tharaniya Nair and Tristan Chwee. LIFE in an oil palm plantation can sound much worse than it really is. Sure, the workers have to perform manual labour for eight hours a day and live in a small wooden hut with at least four other guys. Yes, there [...]