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By VIVY YUSOF alltherage@thestar.com.my THE last person you’d expect lie to you is your mother. “Of course you will grow taller, sweetheart,” my mom would say, with sympathetic eyes followed by some loving hair-stroking. It’s been years since, and I am still seeing the world at the same level I did. So I found […]
By NATASHA IMAN alltherage@thestar.com.my AS a die-hard Hallyu wave fan (loving anything and everything Korean), I had spent many nights pondering about how I would be able to “manage” myself once I move to Tokyo, Japan to further my studies. I was worried about many things – my fluency (or lack thereof) in Japanese; living […]
25-year old professional golfer, Jean Chua has been a professional golfer since 2009, and in May this year, she was Malaysia’s top-ranked woman golfer.
YOUNG people are learning about sex – but where are they getting proper information when it comes to the birds and the bees? Are they getting the oh-so-important “talk” from adults such as their parents and teachers or are they turning to other source of information? The Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) […]
By SERENE LING alltherage@thestar.com.my Anyone who’s ever watched some of the young beatboxers from BeatNation perform cannot possibly deny their skills and passion for what they do. Founded in August 2011, BeatNation is the brainchild of two budding entrepreneurs, Cody Foo, 20, and Lau Soong Huey, 21. Better known as DJ Coex and ABeatC […]
By KELVIN YEE BA (Hons) Mass Communications, IACT College Remember the days when your mum used to go on and on about how you should eat your vegetables? I certainly do. For those of you who still wonders why mum made you eat them, well just remember – “Mother knows best”. At least it’s […]
By PHYLLIS HO alltherage@thestar.com.my The young cheerleaders of Team Malaysia did our country proud at the inaugural 2012 International Cheer Union (ICU) Asia Cheerleading Championships in Tokyo, Japan two weeks ago. The team returned with bronze medals in the Premier Co-ed and Partner Stunt categories, despite competing in a field that included strong contenders […]
By FIONA CHAN alltherage@thestar.com.my MALAYSIA held its very first official YouTuber event, OMG Live, at The Actors Studio, Kuala Lumpur last Sunday. OMG, which stands for On Malaysian Grounds, featured the five most prominent players on the Malaysian YouTube scene – JinnyBoyTV, Germani Productions, Dan Khoo Productions, The Ming Thing and Grim Film. In […]
By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my “SEX is when a man puts his thing into a woman’s thing.” That was the first form of sex education Ezra Lee got from her classmate at eight when she wondered out loud what it was all about. Lee had caught an episode of Sex And The City the night before […]
By TAN JEN LI Diploma in Mass Communication, IACT College FOR me, a “yum cha” (which literally translates to “drink tea” in Cantonese) session is usually just a meet up in a “mamak” restaurant, chatting with friends, swinging our legs carefreely and laughing over stupid matters. This is the time when most young people […]