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By KEVIN TAN and ANGELIN YEOH alltherage@thestar.com.my MANY memes and posts go viral on the Internet every week, from harmless Chuck Norris jokes to the more factious Relatable Romney photos. Last week, it was a set of Facebook photos of a 13-year-old alleged rapist – complete with the boy’s full name, MyKad number and address. […]
If you’ve watched Dog Whisperer With Cesar Millan on TV, you’d be tempted to think that dog training is as simple as saying “tsst” all the time.
By CHEE YIH YANG alltherage@thestar.com.my AS I grow older, the lure of trading card games (TCGs) and boardgames that clock longer than one hour (I’m talking “official” play times that game companies quote, so actual set up and gameplay is closer to two hours), has all but vanished. However, gone are the days when I […]
By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my Over the past five years, Banu Aboo Haniffa has followed her son Mohd Hafiz, 26, to every single class he’s attended at the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology. Banu not only drives him there; she also stays through all his classes, studies all his subjects and even helps him take notes. […]
By NATASHA IMAN alltherage@thestar.com.my WHEN you think of ushering in the new year in Tokyo, you would automatically think: parties, fireworks and endless crowds of people, right? This music addict? I ended up in front of my television screen at home watching Kohaku Uta Gassen, which can roughly be translated as “Red vs White Singing […]
IS blogging becoming a thing of the past, or shall we say, so 2012? In our previous cover story, R.AGE touched on the subject of blogging, and what the future has in stall for the medium – if it has a future at all. With social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, anyone can post […]
By VIVY YUSOF alltherage@thestar.com.my THEY put you through an emotional wringer, test your intellectual capacity to the limit, and make you reassess every single achievement in your life. Job interviews – who needs ‘em, right? Well unfortunately, most of us do. We all need to put food on the table (or designer bags in our […]
By PHYLLIS HO alltherage@thestar.com.my ENGINEERING student Lee Kha Sheng, 18, is either a really generous, philanthropic guy, or just terrible at maths. He spent RM20,000 producing a promotional video for a welfare home, to enter a short film competition where the total prize money for all the winners was RM18,000. But since he’s in engineering, […]
Acclaimed teen actress and undergraduate student, Joey Leong shares her story on how she copes by leading two different lives.
By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my PASSIONATE and driven are just two words one can use to describe Fariz Hanapiah. At 28, Fariz is the co-founder and executive creative director of Motiofixo, a motion graphics studio and most recently, he emerged as the winner of the Young Creative Entrepreneur Media (YCEM) Award 2012. The competition organised by […]