Get personal: Hafizh Syahrin Abdullah
When Hafizh Syahrin Abdullah was only nine, he already knew that he was destined to ride the motorbike.
Milk it up!
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my Healthy fun at Cheer 2003 IF you think you are all grown-up and your body does not need milk anymore, Michael Ong has something else to tell you. “Milk is vital for all ages. It could be the only near-complete-balanced food and as adults you still need the essential nutrients in […]
Striving to lose
By AMANDA SOO alltherage@thestar.com.my Is social media to blame for making girls more obsessed than ever with being thin? TWO months ago, America’s Next Top Model judge and fashion blogger Bryanboy was accused of encouraging ‘thinspiration’ among his 350,000 followers when he tweeted “Mark your calendars kids! You have less than a month to lose […]
What is ‘thinspiration’?
The term thinspiration, or thinspo for short, derives from the words ‘thin’ and ‘inspiration’. Thinspiration is the use of images and quotes to motivate an individual to lose weight or to remain thin. Often used interchangeably with the term pro-anorexia or pro-ana, websites that promote thinspiration were originally used to as a support group for […]
Social startups
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my We all know that social initiatives – community projects, social enterprises, non-profit organisations, charities, etc. – are all the rage among young Malaysians right now. From the Genovasi Challenge to DiGi’s Challenge for Change, competitions offering grants to these social initiatives seem to be popping up all over the place. Just […]
Cheer Returns!
Hurrah! The nation’s premier inter-school cheerleading competition is back. CALLING all cheerleaders out there. Bring out the pompoms and get ready to cheer your hearts out as Cheer 2013 is here. Presented by MARIGOLD HL Milk with main sponsor Silkygirl and co-sponsor Sugus, Cheer 2013 was launched this week, and the national cheerleading competition definitely […]
Saving the world 101
WHAT does it take to start a project or an organisation that could benefit a social cause – be it via a social enterprise, a social project or even an NGO? Here are some tips and advice from Tandem Fund Chief Operating officer Kal Joffres and Yayasan Chow Kit founder Dr Hartini Zainudin, two social […]
Get Personal: May Nakabayashi
If you are an anime enthusiast and have watched shows like Macross Frontier, Shangri La, or Accel World you would definitely recognise May Nakabayashi – or her voice at least.
Learning from mistakes
ENGINEERS Without Borders (EWB) is a world-wide NGO in various countries that adopts engineering solutions to meet the needs of developmental work. EWB Canada, upon realising the importance of acknowledging failures, publishes an annual Failure Report citing their biggest failure projects to let others learn from their mistakes. In a TEDx talk in 2011, one […]
Pushing the Limits
By MELLY LING alltherage@thestar.com.my WHEN she was 21, Pushpa Basnet made it her life’s mission to ensure that no child should have to live behind bars in her native Nepal. The state of poverty in Nepal means that parents who are imprisoned are left with two options – to bring their children along to jail, […]
Who is #MyMP?
By Christine Cheah WHAT qualifications does my Member of Parliament have? Where did he/she work before? Who is my state assemblyperson (Adun)? If those are some of the questions you have, UndiMsia! has the answers for you. #MyMP is a project started by UndiMsia! in collaboration with the Sinar Project, and it aims to compile […]
More Than Votes
By MELLY LING alltherage@thestar.com.my IT was reported last month that among the 13.34 million Malaysians currently registered as voters, 2.3 million are new to the list, and most of them are young people. Great news, of course. The youth are taking the future of their country into their own hands, exercising their civic duty and […]
Get Personal: Aaron Chan
What started out as a hobby for young local mountain biker Aaron Chan is now his biggest pride and passion.
Inspiration in fashion
By KEVIN TAN and CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my Empty spaces. Chairs. Daisies. Those were some of the things Kiwi Phoebe Ratcliff Reid saw at the memorial site of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand. Just from these three concepts, Malaysian Kathryn Lagrosa Rao and Reid, both 21, designed four elegant and fabulous outfits to win […]
Life in the back lane
By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my TIRED of bring grossed out by all the iffy lorong belakang (back alleys) she sees in Malaysian neighbourhoods, architect Foo Hui Ping, 31, came up with a simple yet brilliant campaign to get people to reclaim these communal spaces. It promptly won her RM100,000. Foo’s “Our Lost Space” campaign emerged as […]