All our stories, in chronological order
By IAN YEE alltherage@thestar.com.my DURING my first few months as a journalist, I wrote probably the dumbest article of my life. Coming from me, I suppose that’s saying quite a lot about that piece. It was about the Here In My Home music video, which local singer-songwriter Pete Teo had put together with some well-known […]
By KEVIN TAN, CHRISTINE CHEAH and DENIELLE LEONG alltherage@thestar.com.my FOR some young Malaysians, Ramadan isn’t just a time for spiritual reflection – it’s also a time to share their food with others. More and more young people are setting up stalls at Ramadan bazaars to share their culinary creations – which range from traditional fare […]
Story, photos and video by ANDRIAN TAM brats@thestar.com.my Not many people know this, but Malaysia is home to a pretty active beatboxing scene. The problem, though, is that most of the beatboxers are scattered all over the country, something which BeatNation hopes to fix. “The idea of BeatNation was to create a community of beatboxers […]
Story and photos by JASON LIOH alltherage@thestar.com.my IT’S not just the Singaporeans who are going crazy over collectible toys. Some Malaysians have been pretty gung-ho over the Despicable Me “minions” you get with your Happy Meal. But instead of just buying it, playing with it and then dumping it once the craze is over, why […]
By SHERRINDER KAUR brats@thestar.com.my THE students from the Interact Club of SMK Sultan Abdul Samad might be young, but that didn’t stop them from lending a helping hand to the people in Cambodia, in hopes of giving families there a better life. The students organised a fund raiser in conjunction with their annual International Understanding […]
By IAN YEE alltherage@thestar.com.my EVERY Friday, I like to take a few hours to do what we here at R.AGE call #RAGEchat, where we basically ask our followers on Twitter what they think about our stories. After a long hard week of interviews, photoshoots, research, writing and getting screamed at for not submitting our pages […]
Meet the Star Wars super-fan who plays the bad guy for a good cause.
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my It’s not often that one gets to meet a government minister, let alone follow them around to observe how they work – but that’s exactly what 70 young Malaysians will get to do. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak introduced the Perdana Fellows Programme earlier this week, which will see […]
By DENIELLE LEONG alltherage@thestar.com.my IMAGINE this: Bella Swan settles down with an average Joe in the Upper East Side, sans sparkly vampires. Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away, Harry Potter is battling the Dark Side as a Jedi Knight. “Preposterous!” you might say, but it’s really nothing out of the ordinary in the strange […]
PROBABLY the biggest dream of fan fiction writers around the world (apart from vampire Harry Potter, Jedi Spock, Legolas in The Avengers, etc.) is now a reality. They can now get paid for all the hundreds of pages of fanfic they produce, thanks to Amazon’s Kindle Worlds. Amazon has secured licenses with companies like Warner […]
SO far, there hasn’t been a major lawsuit involving a fan fiction author being sued for infringement of copyright. But according to copyright lawyer Ken St. James (pic), it’s best to stay on the safe side and obtain consent from the original author anyway. “Even if it’s just published online, it can still be an […]
By DENIELLE LEONG alltherage@thestar.com.my WHILE most fan fiction writers enjoy making up stories on their own, A-Levels student Nurhanani Fazlur Rahman, 19, prefers the unique collaborative effort involved in “role-play fanfic”. And she doesn’t do her writing on forum boards like most of the others in the genre – she does it on Tumblr, as […]
“People pour out so much energy and talent into them… It makes me frustrated. I’m like, go write your own story. Put them out there and get them published. That’s what you should be doing. You should be working on your own book right now.” — Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series. “I myself […]
WHILE most fanfics are pretty harmless, there are some that are just wrong. Be warned: some of this stuff is NSFW and NOT meant for kids… A Hobbit Named Scooby Doo That’s right, folks. It’s a crossover between Lord Of The Rings and Scooby Doo. Look out for a Fred-Daphne-Legolas love triangle and other adventures. […]
FOR the uninitiated, fan fiction might seem like a strange, foreign world of wizards, Jedi warriors, Dothraki queens and glittery vampires all lumped together. So here are a few basic terms you should know before exploring this universe: > Canon – The original literary pieceused as reference for fan-fiction. Pre-canon and post-canon fan-fictions are stories […]