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By NATASHA IMAN WHEN I was 13, I remember standing in the middle of Covent Garden in London watching buskers shooting flames from their mouths and riding on tricycles while juggling at the same time. It is hard to believe that a city I had once perceived as the ultimate modern metropolis had been struck […]
The wistful indie singer wishes all her fans and R.AGE readers Selamat Hari Raya!
By DAVID LIAN alltherage@thestar.com.my Recently at a dinner, I observed what’s become a pretty common sight these days – a boy of 12 or 13 kept playing with his iPhone throughout dinner. Now that probably isn’t such a bad thing for some people except that everyone at the table was doing it, too! This scenario […]
By IAN YEE We always joke about the stereotypical Malaysian student who returns overseas from an overseas university– we tease them over their accents (whether they acquired one or not) or whenever they order a “cafe latte” because, you know, “kopi O” just isn’t good enough for them now. Okay, so maybe some of them […]
By NASA MARIA ENTABAN alltherage@thestar.com.my WHENEVER Nisa Addina Mohd Taufik picks up her violin and begins to play, she gets chills up and down her spine. As it turns out, so does everyone who listens to her – including the judges who awarded her three gold medals awardsat the World Championships of Performing Arts (WCOPA) […]
By NASA MARIA ENTABAN, SHARMILA NAIR, IAN YEE and MARCIA ANNE GANDHI THERE has never been a better time to be a young Malaysian than now. Information about anything you want comes at the tips of your fingers, there are vast career opportunities all over the world as well as in Malaysia, back homeand most […]
By JASON GOH SOMETIMES, while travelling, you will come to a place with a breathtaking scene. Whether it’s a skyscraper, or rolling hills and valley, or just a busy street with colourful billboards and lights, these sceneries make for perfect pictures. And what better way to show them off than to use them in […]
THREE years ago, Ray William Johnson was just a regular guy with a video camera, an Internet connection, and an opinion. Today, he has almost five million subscribers on YouTube. Every video he puts up gets millions of views and here’s the kicker: All he does is review clips that go viral, twice a week. […]
By MARCIA ANNE GANDHI IF YOU fancy yourself musically talented, there is another platform for you to impress someone … who knows, it could lead to stardom. But for starters, you have to get into an audition to perform at the AloudAsia showcase – a bi-monthly stage for established, upcoming and undiscovered Malaysian musical acts […]
By ZAIN HD RANDOM Alphabets is known for its flashmob projects, but we started a website last year to compile the best of the best at Ramadan bazaars in the Klang Valley. Everyone goes to Ramadan bazaars, this month, and we wanted the portal to be the space for people to submit short reviews of […]