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WE’RE back from yet another awesome BRATs workshop! Most of the R.AGE team was in Kuala Terengganu for four days last week facilitating the BRATs Kuala Terengganu 2013 workshop, and we had a great time working with the 40 participants. In case you don’t know, BRATs, The Star’s long-running young journalist programme, is run by […]
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my BEFORE Abudi Alsagoff, 22 knew what parkour was, he was a nerd who spent most of his time indoors. All his free time was spent reading manga, watching anime, playing online games and hanging out with friends. But all that changed when his friend showed him a parkour video on YouTube […]
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my WHILE Abudi and his friends were showing some stunt during the photoshoot, they (as well as the photographer and I) were scolded by the security guards for climbing the walls at a park in Setiawangsa, Kuala Lumpur. Abudi, with poise, just calmly said: “Bang, sekejap saje. Shoot last ni.” (Brother, it’s […]
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my DAVID Belle was one of the restless teenagers who used to run around parks in the suburban neighbourhood in Lisses, France, in the early 1990s. His father Raymond, however, was a rigid soldier, who was well-trained in navigating obstacle courses. If there was anything that David learned from his father back […]
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my A FEW years ago, parkour was nothing but a serious hobby for buddies Abudi Alsagoff, Mohd Amirul Asyraf Zulkifli and Mudabbir Ahmad Ilyas. They hopped over railings like Donkey Kong, jumped over concrete walls like the Mario Brothers and flipped across the playground like carefree teenagers. But when the parkour (also […]
By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my JUST last Friday, a group of youths gathered together at Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus in Subang Jaya, Selangor, for an open forum for a discussion over a cup of teh tarik. The Teh Tarik Sessions – which are organised by R.AGE and the Government Transformation Programme (GTP) – are a laid-back, […]
By IAN YEE alltherage@thestar.com.my THE reaction on Twitter to Amanda Bynes’ all-too-familiar child star meltdown was as expected – lots of clever remarks, insults and, from her few remaining fans, counter-insults. Having just gone through a whole lot of research on the diffusion of responsibility theory (aka the “bystander effect”) for our cover story last […]
By NATASHA IMAN alltherage@thestar.com.my THE K-pop scene is constantly full of “debuts”. A debut in K-pop marks an act’s first introduction to the public, but it’s not necessarily with a new song or album. It could be a debut at an event, like a public appearance. Sometimes, even the announcement of a new act coming […]
She’s a tattoo artist with over 500,000 ‘Likes’ on Facebook. No prizes for guessing why.
THE DIFFUSION of responsibility theory was raised as early as 1964 after the Kitty Genovese case in New York, the United States. Since then, the phenomenon has been noticed in several other criminal cases. Kitty Genovese In 1964, New Yorker Kitty Genovese was stabbed and raped over a 30-minute period in the hallway of her apartment building. Though reports vary […]
FILMMAKER Adam Sinclair, 29, released a short film about diffusion of responsibility in November last year called Sanzaru, which depicts a group of college students discussing the theory and exploring the mindset of people in those situations. “You can argue that young Malaysians are less responsible now, but I believe the theory applies to everyone, […]
A DIFFUSION of responsibility case made the news in Malaysia a few months ago. An Indonesian worker had suffered a stroke and collapsed at a food court which serviced mostly students from Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus in Subang Jaya, Selangor. It was over four hours before a group of patrons – the organising committee of a debate […]
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my TRICK question: you’re in the middle of a crowded street, and you notice some guy lying on the ground motionless. Everybody seems to be walking past him. What would you do? It’s a trick question because we already know what the answer would most likely be, thanks to this phenomenon in psychology […]
Celine Wong, aka Lihuà (her Chinese name), 23, didn’t particularly enjoy the Chinese calligraphy lessons her parents made her attend for about 10 years, starting when she was six.
By IAN YEE alltherage@thestar.com.my IN the space of a year, Borussia Dortmund have gone from German league and cup Double winners, to losing the UEFA Champions League final and three of their best players – all while failing to win a single trophy. It is the curse of the over-achieving club. After Dortmund’s incredible 5-2 […]