Articles from this Category
By MELLY LING alltherage@thestar.com.my AS sweet as Valentine’s Day can be, it can also leave a pretty bitter taste in the mouth with all the jacked-up prices. Let’s take a look at how much some of the guys splurged on their sweethearts last week… Flowers: RM200 Dinner: RM250 Valentine’s gift: RM369 (pendant from Pandora) “She […]
By MELLY LING alltherage@thestar.com.my DEPENDING on how you want to see it, Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams has either moved on from the departure of the Farro brothers from the band, or she’s still taking veiled pot-shots at them. “This feels like the band we were always meant to be,” she said during a press […]
It must be tough being doctor/comedian Jason Leong. Let’s say you’re in the emergency room of a hospital, and your life is hanging in the balance. The last thing you’d want is to have some joker treating you, right?
Teh Eng Hock, bureau chief, The Star From the bloody street protests in Bangkok to foreign diplomatic trips with the Prime Minister, Teh has covered his fair share of assignments in his eight years (and counting) as a news journalist in The Star – and it all came about after a BRATs workshop in 1998. […]
Capital FM deejay Xandria Ooi joined the BRATs in 1999 when she was 16. She went on to become a VJ for Astro’s Hitz.TV when she won the music channel’s UVJ Search in 2005, all the while writing for The Star as a BRAT. She now has her own column in StarMetro called Sights & […]
By JASON LIOH alltherage@thestar.com.my The key to capturing a great photo is not, I believe, by using the latest and most advanced camera or understanding every technical aspect of photography. It is through good composition. A composition is a way to present to others what you have seen through your point of view in an […]
Stories by MELLY LING alltherage@thestar.com.my Remember the good old days of love letters and chasing butterflies in the park, when a guy would spend months courting the girl of his dreams before finally meeting her parents – only to ask their permission to take her out? Well, we sure hope you still can, because it […]
It’s that time of the year again where some of us would look forward to eating mindless amount of cookies, collect red packets and avoid that nosy relative who wants to know why you’re still single.
By MELLY LING alltherage@thestar.com.my MOST people who know what fixies are would probably say something like “Oh, they’re just for hipsters”. And it’s funny, because fixies are basically bicycles. So why all the hate? The fact is, fixies are just fixed-gear bicycles, meaning they don’t have gears or brakes, and the chain is fixed to […]
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my In 1993, The Star organised its first ever young journalist programme as a way to give back to the community. There were just nine participants, and they would gather every month at the The Star’s office to learn all the skills they needed to be a journalist. After six months, the […]