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By SARENRAJ RAJENDRAN Photos by ABEL CHI brats@thestar.com.my It’s not every day you get to watch some of Asia’s best drift racers in action performing their inch-perfect swerving manoeuvers. Well for us BRATs, we got to actually be in the car with those drivers. Last Saturday, Malaysia’s “Price of Drift” Tengku Djan Ley and Japanese […]
The low average starting pay of fresh graduates, increasing house prices and rising cost of living are issues we at R.AGE have written about quite a bit over the years. It really is nothing new. So why is it that Gen-Y kids in Malaysia are constantly getting flak for having it too easy? In […]
By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my Another week and a new batch of celebrity news from around the world. Celebrities really know how to stay in the limelight, yes? She won’t stop Miley Cyrus is not keeping quiet about her controversial VMA performance with Robin Thicke, and the singer says that she wouldn’t have done it any […]
KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my There is always an anticipation when a band, after a long hiatus, re-groups and goes on tour. Would they still sound the same? Is their new music any good? Do the members still share the same chemistry as when they first started? For those who were asking similar questions when news broke […]
By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my Miley Cyrus is not the first entertainer to have had a controversial performance at the MTV Video Music Awards and rest assured, she won’t be the last either. The singer, who many still remember – if they try really hard, that is – as the once innocent Disney product, showed […]
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my The first thing Nick Vujicic says to most people he meets is “come give me a hug!” And it’s not because he’s a handsy kinda guy. It’s quite the opposite, actually. The motivational speaker, who has given over 2,000 talks in six continents, was born with tetra-amelia syndrome. He was born […]
By ZARRAH MARI MORDEN, YAP YI PENG and JOSHUA RALPH KAMIJAN brats@thestar.com.my The Nerf community in Malaysia might not be the biggest, but judging from the response to the Nerf Showdown tournament last week at KDU University College, Selangor, it is definitely growing. Organised by the Nerf Daman–sara community and KDU Uni–versity College, the event […]
By DENIELLE LEONG brats@thestar.com.my At my first BRATs assignment, I barely knew what I was doing. All I had prepared for my interview with Thia Megia (American Idol Season 10 finalist) when she visited Malaysia last year was a list of generic questions – one of which was “sowhat do you think of […]
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my Tan Hooi Choo has been schooling in Singapore since she was seven. Yet when asked “where is home to you?” she replied without hesitation: “Malaysia.” The 20-year-old Johorean is one of many Malaysian students abroad who hold their motherland close to heart and are concerned about the nation’s well-being. “I always […]
Poskod MY editor Ling Low shares untold stories – about the culture, communities and cities – that Malaysia has to offer though Poskod.my.