Get Personal: Yassmin Abdel-Magied
AUSTRALIAN Yassmin Abdel-Magied is the founder of Youth Without Borders – a non-profit organisation that aims to reach out to young people and help turn their dream project into reality.
Breaking forth
Local B-Boys were once again pumped up for the return of one of the world’s top one-on-one B-Boy competitions – the Red Bull BC One Cypher, which was held last Saturday at Chin Woo Stadium in Kuala Lumpur. One of the highlights of this event was the opportunity for breakdancing fans to watch the Red […]
Think before you confess
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my THEY might seem like a perfectly harmless way for you to get some juicy rumours going, but confession pages could actually get you in serious trouble. Because according to Section 499 of the Penal Code, your “confessions” could lead to a defamation lawsuit. “In the case where anything posted from anywhere […]
Behind the confessions
By DENIELLE LEONG and IAN YEE alltherage@thestar.com.my THE guy behind HUCP, the unofficial HELP University Facebook confession page, is virtually the most popular guy on campus – and yet no one seems to notice him in real life. Over the past few months, hundreds of people on campus have been sharing their deepest, darkest secrets […]
Cyber confessions
By DENIELLE LEONG, IAN YEE and KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my THE 19-year-old founder and administrator of the unofficial Catholic High School (CHS) confession page on Facebook received a shocking “confession” a couple weeks back – a student said he had “contaminated” the school canteen’s chee cheong fun sauce. You don’t wanna know the details. As outlandish […]
Get Personal: Joshua Gui
This up-and-coming artiste in the performing arts scene was trained in Australia, but chose to make his name in Malaysia.
The long and short of it
By IAN YEE alltherage@thestar.com.my MY former editor, who taught me pretty much everything I now know about journalism, used to tell me to only give a story what it’s worth – nothing more, nothing less. Forget the word count. Forget the page layout. If you really think your story’s worth 3,000 words (insanely long for […]
More celeb news
By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my WHAT would our lives be without some crazy celebrity news? Pretty boring. Well it’s a good thing then that the folks over at Hollywood have been busy giving us plenty of things to talk about this time around. Here’s a roundup on what’s been going on in Tinseltown recently. A new […]
Recipe for success
IMAGINE having to wake up at 4am every day with only four hours of sleep … just to cook for hundreds of people. Sounds exhausting? Well, that is exactly what nasi dagang seller Katipah Sulong, fondly known as Kak Pah by locals in Kuala Terengganu, does every day. Seventeen years ago, Kak Pah and her […]
Making English fun
TAKING a break from all the famous landmarks and places of interest in Kuala Terengganu, the participants of the BRATs workshop also dropped by the Tok Jiring “English Theme Park” (ETP). And no, it’s not a theme park where everything’s British. The ETP is actually an initiative by the Terengganu State Education Technology Department (TSETD) […]
A sacred sight
The Crystal Mosque in Kuala Terengganu is more than a place of worship. BEAUTIFUL mosques are a common sight in Malaysia, but how often does one see a mosque – and a crystal one, no less – floating on water? Well, the people of Kuala Terengganu do almost every day. The shimmering Crystal Mosque on […]
The lure of Pulau Duyung
CHRISTINE Rohani Longuet is a 70-year-old French boat-builder, author, homestay operator, ethnobotanist and Ph.D student who has been living in Pulau Duyung for the past 40 years. True story. It was almost surreal meeting Longuet in her traditional Malay home, built from cengal wood and beautifully appointed with old wooden furniture. She’d speak to her […]
A sinking tradition
SINCE he was 12, Asmawi Hasni’s hobby has been building boats. And we’re not talking about paper boats or model ships. We’re talking huge traditional wooden boats, some close to 20 feet tall and 100 feet long. Traditional Malay boats might sound boring to most young people now, but for Asmawi, they quickly became his […]
Back to basic
Locals strive to keep traditions alive … some do it with a little twist. WAN NOR Affifah Wan Azizi loves Terengganu so much that she created a delicacy and named it after the east coast state. After years of selling serunding Kelantan (Kelantanese meat floss) with her mother, Hajjah Umar Bidah at Pasar Payang in Kuala […]
Seberang Takir
WHEN you ask most of the locals in Kuala Terengganu about Seberang Takir, they’ll most likely say think of two words – keropok lekor. True enough, when we arrived at the small kampung after taking a short boat ride, the first thing we saw were a few keropok lekor shops, all boiling the fresh fish […]