By NASA MARIA ENTABAN alltherage@thestar.com.my COSPLAYER Zheok Kit has surprised some of his friends a few times by giving them a fierce glare when they approach him at cosplaying events. Of course, he makes it a point to explain to them later that he wasn’t being rude, he was just “in character”. Zheok Kit,18, is […]

By VIVY YUSOF alltherage@thestar.com.my I LOVE travelling, but there’s one thing about it that I can’t stand – the packing. I just do not know the meaning of “travelling light”, nor do I understand its concept. Ever seen one of those girls at the airport lugging around a huge handbag, a carry-on trolley bag, and […]

By NATASHA IMAN alltherage@thestar.com.my   JUST a few years ago, if you had stopped any K-Pop fan in their tracks and asked where their favourite idol groups were, a simple reply of “Korea” or another Asian country was probably what you’d get. But in more recent times, answers along the lines of the United States, […]

This week’s tags: #SPM and #PPSMI Too many subjects. Too exam oriented. No practical application. Poor syllabus. Poor delivery. Doesn’t encourage critical/creative thinking. These are just some of the problems with the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) exam system highlighted by the young people of Malaysia during our last #RAGEchat session. Our #RAGEchat had achieved a […]

Stories by TRINNA LEONG alltherage@thestar.com.my Every year, geeks from the East Coast of the United States make a pilgrimage to the New York Comic Con fan convention. It is somewhat a rite of passage that all fan boys and fan girls try to make at least once in their lifetime. This year, the annual New […]

By NATASHA IMAN alltherage@thestar.com.my     JUST a few years ago, if you had stopped any K-Pop fan in their tracks and asked where their favourite idol groups were, a simple reply of “Korea” or another Asian country was probably what you’d get. But in more recent times, answers along the lines of the United […]

When blogger Goh Kheng Swee opted to use drawings instead of text and pictures to tell a story he encountered while taking the public transport, he never expected to receive so much positive feedback from readers. But since he did, Kheng Swee decided that drawing was a good way to express his thoughts and opinions, […]

By JASON GOH alltherage@thestar.com.my MANY people say that street photography is one of the hardest to master. That’s probably because there are too many things to capture, and often times we do not know what to focus on and what to filter. Besides requiring the ability to capture the right things and at the right […]

Warning signs of a potential abuser: – Constant put downs – Criticises your appearance, choices you make, family, friends, etc. – Using guilt – You are often made to feel guilty over something, thus having to give in to his demands constantly. Possessiveness Checks your telephone calls, reads your text messages, insists on access to […]

By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my IT IS normal for a girl to want to dress to please her boyfriend. But for some girls, that is not an option. It’s an order. For Alyssa Patricia (not her real name), wearing short skirts and high heels whenever she was with her boyfriend was a strict dress code she […]

By NATASHA IMAN alltherage@thestar.com.my Recently, in a bid to improve my Japanese language skills, I turned to watching Japanese dramas. In my onerous search to find Japanese dramas with appropriate English subtitles, I came across a drama with an interesting title, “14 Sai No Haha”, which is loosely translated as “Fourteen-Year-Old Mother”. Initially, I was […]