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THE first quarter of the year is a great season for the entertainment industry – awards season begins and we get to see all our favourite stars dress up in their most glamorous outfits and head out onto the red carpet. Just a few days after the Critics Choice Awards 2012 was held in Los […]
AS each male contestant steps out to impress a panel of single women, every ‘bachelorette’ on stage nervously waits in anticipation. This scene from ntv7’s dating reality show Take Me Out is so tense, you can almost hear a pin drop, save for prompting from polished-to-perfection hosts Julie Woon and Nazrudin Rahman. For the contestants, […]
By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my REVA Das didn’t quite get her new classmates’ liking for the scent ‘Mary Jane’. It was too sickly sweet and smells like sweat, and it lingered on even after her classmates walked away. “I had asked someone about the smell and they referred to it as ‘Mary Jane’. Being naive, […]
Alex Ferguson once said everyone’s so stylish in Milan, all the women look like Miss World contestants. Coming from an old dude from Scotland, that’s really not saying much. But last week, I had the chance to find out for myself, to see if Fergie’s taste in style and women is as good as his […]
By NASA MARIA ENTABAN and AMANDA NG YANN CHWEN alltherage@thestar.com.my THEY may fiddle with their smartphones and gadgets throughout meals, spend hours online every day and adopt Western slang into their speech, but when Chinese New Year comes around, most young people adhere to traditional practices that date back centuries. This festive season is a […]
It is not easy to get a hold of Astra-Imelda Elizabeth Yapp for she is one heck of a busy woman. As a media and entertainment producer for a local production house, Astra is always on the move – and that’s how she likes it.
By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my SOFIA Ong doesn’t believe in keeping quiet, especially when she has something important to say. The A-Levels student has always been a firm believer in speaking up and encouraging others to voice out their opinions as well. Right now, Sofia is lending her voice to empower not only herself, but other […]
TO HELP the fight against corruption, there are two things you need to do: 1) Stop paying bribes. 2) Report anyone who solicits a bribe from you. The Performance Management & Delivery Unit (Pemandu) has set up an anti-corruption hotline – 1800-88-6000 – for people to report cases, and Ravindran Devagunam, the anti-corruption National Key […]
Last week’s tag : #stpm The Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia (STPM) examination is notorious for being tough to ace, and with so many other pre-university options available to today’s school leaver, few choose to take on Form Six. Last week’s cover story was all about the STPM – we spoke to several youths who have […]
By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my LAST week we asked you to tell us the things you have on your bucket list … which hopefully you’d complete by the end of this year – you know, just in case the world ends. And guess what? You guys sure do have a lot of things you want to […]