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By VIVY YUSOF alltherage@thestar.com.my EVERYTIME I go to Jakarta, Indonesia, for business, I always end up bringing way more things than I usually do. Suddenly things I never pack on trips like my curling tongs and fake eyelashes become essentials on my list; they are even more essential than my passport! You see, Indonesian ladies […]
By NASA MARIA ENTABAN alltherage@thestar.com.my JANET Chin watched her parents go through a messy divorce when she was a teenager, and for a while vowed she would never get married. For years, she believed that marrying young, pressure from family members and conforming to the norms of their generation were the root of her parents’ […]
ONE of the biggest concerns parents have about sending their impressionable children abroad for studies is how they’d behave in a more permissive environment. Last week, during #RAGEchat, we discussed parents’ anxiety, youths responsibilities and their susceptiblity towards negative influences abroad. Here’s what some had to say about living away from home and being vulnerable […]
It’s a refreshingly different adventure when you are working and travelling in a foreign country. By ELIZABETH LIEW alltherage@thestar.com.my I’M known to be quite stubborn. When my mind is set to do something, there’s usually nothing anyone can do or say to change my mind or sway my decision. When the earthquakes hit Christchurch in […]
Just like any other university student would have to, Chai Fong Ying is currently doing an internship, as part of her accountancy degree programme.
With scores of fledgling singers belting their hearts out to a minus one and aspiring dancers busting out a variety of jaw-dropping dance moves on YouTube, it seems there is little place left on YouTube for the rest of the world’s wide-eyed dreamers. Nevertheless, Filipino country-pop duo Krissy & Ericka has proven that the odds […]
With her creation of the animated dragon “kai xin le long long” (Happy Dragon) as a nationwide phenomenon, Moon Lee is over the moon.
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By JASON LIOH alltherage@thestar.com.my It’s Chinese New Year, and gathering with family and friends is part of the celebrations… and of course taking photographs is a given. We want to include everyone in the photos, so everyone must be taking lots of group photographs this week and next. Burst mode or continuous high speed shooting […]
Last week’s cover story was on young people’s encounter with bribery. As it turns out, just about everyone has been in a situation where they were given the option of bribing someone to get things done, or simply to avoid getting into trouble. We took the discussion to twitter, and asked our followers if they […]
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 […]