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ONE mother’s quest to help depressed teenagers find hope before they resort to suicide inspired our cover story last week on #depression. Dr. Florance Sinniah’s “Know the SIGN” campaign has been providing talks, depression screenings and volunteer counsellors to schools in Penang and Kedah; helping students realise they are not alone in feeling depressed or […]
Did you know that some people have the ability to instantly identify or sing any given musical note without any point of reference? That ability is called “perfect pitch”, and it’s something that film director Quek Shio Chuan does not possess.
For the youth, by the youth By SARENRAJ RAJENDRAN, MARCUS HENG and LIM JIE SHENG alltherage@thestar.com.my On a Sunday morning when most of us would have just remained under the sheets for a few extra hours, thousands of energetic young people flooded the Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall, Petaling Jaya on Malaysia Day to […]
The BRATs had the opportunity to talk to the boys of The Wanted.
When Sarah Zainal was a teenager, she never really bothered with fashion. Now that she’s 29 and a successful electro-pop singer-songwriter who goes by the name Ze!, well, the picture here pretty much speaks for itself.
By CARMEN KHOR Sunway University Degree in Mass Communication STRESS is not an alien term to anyone. As teenagers, we often put up with stress on a daily basis. I remembered how my mom used to tell me without hesitating to repeat it over and over again: “Those days, we could not even afford […]
By CHRISTINA CHIN sgchris@thestar.com.my Two months ago, it was reported that suicide rates were on the rise in Malaysia. Now that statistic might not seem particularly relevant or alarming to most young people, maybe this one will – according to Dr Florance Sinniah, suicide is the second leading cause of death among Malaysians aged 12 […]
By CHRISTINA CHIN sgchris@thestar.com.my Befrienders Penang chairman Phillip Saw believes that pressure from parents and teachers to excel academically is behind the increase in suicide cases among young people. “One student I spoke to was very upset that he scored eight A1s and one A2,” said Saw. “There was also a boy whose grandfather told […]
By THAM YING HUI, CAROLYN HAI, V. VISHNU and SHAHRIMAN SHAHRUL alltherage@thestar.com.my All those years of playing Call Of Duty, finally paying off. That’s how some of us BRATs felt as we were getting prepped for our very first Nerf Dart Tag tournament. We were huddled in a corner, loading the velcro-tipped Nerf foam […]
By TRISTAN TOH alltherage@thestar.com.my THE Barclays Premier League season may be in full swing, but football was far from the minds of the hundreds of players vying for supremacy at the Malaysia International Ice Hockey Tournament 2012. Over the course of four days, the Sunway Pyramid ice rink was transformed into a battleground as […]