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According to Maichal Isthyben, 27, park manager of the Kuala Selangor Nature Park (KSNP), there is a species of monkeys at the nature reserve called the crab-eating monkey. As Maichal pointed out to us when a group of these monkeys came by during our tour through the park’s secondary and mangrove forests, some of them […]
We’ve been waiting for it since the end of our last workshop in 2011, and it finally came – BRATs Kuala Selangor 2012, the first BRATs workshop of the year! And Kuala Selangor can only mean one thing – Fireflies. And seafood. And monkeys. And forests. Wait, there was some awesome history too… All we […]
MARCH 8 is International Women’s Day, and to celebrate, we dedicated our #RAGEchat session last week to all the women out there. We asked our readers why they thought celebrating #IWD was important, what the challenges were for young women in this day and age, and also, how they thought women have progressed and if […]
Watch out everyone, the year is about to get much more awesome with the release of the highly anticipated movie The Hunger Games. Based on the first book from The Hunger Games trilogy by author Suzanne Collins, the movie stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Lenny Kravitz and […]
I AM 13 this year and just entered secondary school. There are 11 classes in each form in my school and I am in the 1st class. Unfortunately, one of the classes had to be shut down because there aren’t enough teachers. So, the students from that class were then moved to various other classes; […]
By DANIEL SUBRAMANIAM alltherage@thestar.com.my Cosplay, a portmanteau of the words “costume” and “play” is a form of performance art in which participants use costumes and accessories to bring specific characters from video games, anime, manga and fantasy films to life. Widely regarded as Asia’s “Cosplay Queen”, 24-year-old Alodia Gosiengfiao has travelled the world performing and […]
By NASA MARIA ENTABAN alltherage@thestar.com.my FOR us non-supermodel, regular women types, there is no “one-size-fits-all” when it comes to fashion. Everyone has a different body shape and sometimes it can be hard to find clothes that fit well for those of us who aren’t thin, slender and hipless (one of the reasons why I can […]
By NASA MARIA ENTABAN alltherage@thestar.com.my THE fashion world’s “It” girls have taken on many forms in the past; there are skinny girls, voluptuous girls, blonde girls, girls with high cheek bones and so on. These days, the fashion industry is more diverse than ever, but somehow, there will always be that one model, actress or […]
I sent a letter last time about having an imaginary boyfriend. Both of you gave such good comments and advise for me to solve my problem but I realised that the more I try to solve it, the harder it gets. Trying to forget that “boyfriend” of mine has made me feel more appreciative of […]
CHANNING Tatum stars alongside Rachel McAdams in the new romantic drama, The Vow. The movie follows the story of how a husband tries to win the heart of his wife, who suffers from memory loss after a car crash. “I thought that it was a pretty unique story… It’s an out-and-out love story and i […]