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LAST Friday’s #RAGEchat session garnered quite a lot of response from our dear followers, thanks to ONE “controversial” question: What do you have to say about the comparisons made between The Hunger Games and Twilight? As soon as we tweeted that out, we got a barrage of replies from followers, many of whom are The […]
Does art imitate life, or is it the other way round? In the Harry Potter movies, Jamie Waylett often found himself in hot water as Vincent Crabbe, one of Draco Malfoy’s sidekicks. In real life, he’s just found himself in trouble as well after he was found guilty of “violent disorder” earlier this week for […]
Not many museums have a “welcoming party” that is as amusing as the one at the Historical Museum of Kuala Selangor. Here, cheeky monkeys entertain people as they hike up the hill leading to the main building of the museum. The museum lies on top of Bukit Malawati and is located within an ancient fort […]
VISITORS to Bukit Melawati have the relics of the fort to admire. There are cannons still standing in their original location ready to attack ships in the sea, the lighthouse that is still functioning, a museum and even a poison well. But many are most fascinated with the antics of the monkeys that roam freely […]
Fireflies are one of the most efficient natural light producers in the world – they are capable of emitting light without giving off heat. These exceptional creatures are treasures of Kampung Kuantan in the district of Kuala Selangor, Selangor. However, their survival has been threatened by human activity and land development. The use of herbicides […]
According to Maichal Isthyben, 27, park manager of the Kuala Selangor Nature Park (KSNP), there is a species of monkeys at the nature reserve called the crab-eating monkey. As Maichal pointed out to us when a group of these monkeys came by during our tour through the park’s secondary and mangrove forests, some of them […]
We’ve been waiting for it since the end of our last workshop in 2011, and it finally came – BRATs Kuala Selangor 2012, the first BRATs workshop of the year! And Kuala Selangor can only mean one thing – Fireflies. And seafood. And monkeys. And forests. Wait, there was some awesome history too… All we […]
We like to call 28-year-old Kelly Siew “The Singing Doctor”, but don’t get the wrong idea – she doesn’t diagnose patients to the tune of The Sound Of Music.
MARCH 8 is International Women’s Day, and to celebrate, we dedicated our #RAGEchat session last week to all the women out there. We asked our readers why they thought celebrating #IWD was important, what the challenges were for young women in this day and age, and also, how they thought women have progressed and if […]
By DANIEL SUBRAMANIAM alltherage@thestar.com.my Cosplay, a portmanteau of the words “costume” and “play” is a form of performance art in which participants use costumes and accessories to bring specific characters from video games, anime, manga and fantasy films to life. Widely regarded as Asia’s “Cosplay Queen”, 24-year-old Alodia Gosiengfiao has travelled the world performing and […]
CHANNING Tatum stars alongside Rachel McAdams in the new romantic drama, The Vow. The movie follows the story of how a husband tries to win the heart of his wife, who suffers from memory loss after a car crash. “I thought that it was a pretty unique story… It’s an out-and-out love story and i […]
THE Star Online (@staronline), tweeted a news story with the headline “Local grads not up to mark” earlier this week. The news article quoted a bunch of experts who gave their thoughts on the quality of #LocalGrads. Here are the key points of the story: l Six out of 10 graduates from Malaysian universities take […]
Animal and environmental conservationist, Paul Henry, has only ever had one ambition (apart from a short period when he thought about being a doctor), and that was to help protect endangered animal species.
FOR most of us city folk, it’s hard to imagine working anywhere but in an office, living anywhere but in a comfortable house or veering off our regular nine-to-five, five days a week, schedule. What’s even harder to picture is going to a job which almost guarantees that every day may be your last. […]
You know when a kid tells you they’re going to be an animal conservationist or something like that, you tend to go “aw, that’s cute” but at the same time think, “like that’s ever gonna happen”. Well that’s because it sounds like a fanciful idea – you get to go camping every day, work with […]