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By IAN YEE alltherage@thestar.com.my About three weeks ago, on a Sunday morning, a few hundred Malaysian students gathered in three different cities around the world to watch a simple online video streamed live from Kuala Lumpur. It wasn’t a concert, it wasn’t a football game, it wasn’t some big debate between politicians, and it wasn’t […]
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 […]
Don’t write off mak yong just yet. The traditional dance-drama may just make a comeback. By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my IF there is one thing that Hazlami Harun wants to do at least once, it would be to perform mak yong in his hometown in Kelantan… in public. Growing up, that dream wasn’t possible as the […]
HOUSE Officers, or doctors-in-training in Malaysia have been all over the news in the past few weeks. In response to the stories, our cover story last week touched on the challenges young doctors face. We spoke to doctors currently going through their housemanship period in Government hospitals, medical students and doctors who have gone through […]
When I was working as a teacher in 2007, one of my favourite students, C, fell in love with me and started buying me gifts and sending me letters almost every day. She kept doing this for two years, but I didn’t feel the same way for her because we are of the same gender […]
By TRISTAN TOH alltherage@thestar.com.my Football fans got up close and personal with the English Premier League trophy recently at the Malaysian leg of the Manchester United Champ19ns Trophy Tour. Held at the One World Hotel, Selangor, some 160 Red Devils – mostly clad in their favourite team’s colours – gave up their Saturday morning sleep-in […]
By NASA MARIA ENTABAN Photo by ONIN LORENTE alltherage@thestar.com.my AFTER 10 years in the fashion industry, fashion director and Hanger magazine editor Sueann Chong feels like she is right where she should be. For the past year, she has spent her days doing exactly what she loves – running Hanger, an unconventional bi-annual fashion magazine. […]
Compiled by DANIEL SUBRAMANIAM Sony Music Entertainment has come up with a new series of compilation albums, where the music ranges from pop to rock to jazz. The Pure… series comes with four discs per collection and instead of covering a particular genre, each one set consists of different music styles. There’s the Pure… […]
By NASA MARIA ENTABAN alltherage@thestar.com.my NADZIRAH Hashim and her sister Diyana love shopping, and both admit to having overstuffed closets. Over the years they have amassed a pretty substantial amount of clothing, accessories, bags and shoes and like many fashion enthusiasts, stored these items away until they could figure out what to do with them. […]
I AM a 17-year-old girl and my close friends are S and P. We have been together since Form One. However, S and P have known each other since primary school. S is friendly, cheerful and an extrovert. P is very “princess-y”, stubborn and sensitive. No one is brave enough to tell P her mistakes. […]