All our stories, in chronological order
By KELVIN YEE BA (Hons) Mass Communications, IACT College Remember the days when your mum used to go on and on about how you should eat your vegetables? I certainly do. For those of you who still wonders why mum made you eat them, well just remember – “Mother knows best”. At least it’s […]
By PHYLLIS HO alltherage@thestar.com.my The young cheerleaders of Team Malaysia did our country proud at the inaugural 2012 International Cheer Union (ICU) Asia Cheerleading Championships in Tokyo, Japan two weeks ago. The team returned with bronze medals in the Premier Co-ed and Partner Stunt categories, despite competing in a field that included strong contenders […]
By FIONA CHAN alltherage@thestar.com.my MALAYSIA held its very first official YouTuber event, OMG Live, at The Actors Studio, Kuala Lumpur last Sunday. OMG, which stands for On Malaysian Grounds, featured the five most prominent players on the Malaysian YouTube scene – JinnyBoyTV, Germani Productions, Dan Khoo Productions, The Ming Thing and Grim Film. In […]
It is hard to imagine that after all these years, the debate on which social network is king is still going on. Of course, until earlier this year when they released their IPO, Facebook was the de facto social media du jour. Twitter was a close second naturally but the truth is that it doesn’t […]
By TAN JEN LI Diploma in Mass Communication, IACT College FOR me, a “yum cha” (which literally translates to “drink tea” in Cantonese) session is usually just a meet up in a “mamak” restaurant, chatting with friends, swinging our legs carefreely and laughing over stupid matters. This is the time when most young people […]
By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my “SEX is when a man puts his thing into a woman’s thing.” That was the first form of sex education Ezra Lee got from her classmate at eight when she wondered out loud what it was all about. Lee had caught an episode of Sex And The City the night before […]
Before Nadhira Nishaa got her break as a pop/R&B artiste, she was just another person working up the corporate ladder.
Vegetarianism might seem like just another one of those diet fads to most of us, but in Malaysia, some young people are really getting into it – and very much for the right reasons. It’s not because they want to lose weight, and it’s not because PETA’s (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) tactics […]
By PHYLLIS HO alltherage@thestar.com.my THE atmosphere was electric at the concourse area of The Summit Subang, Selangor last weekend, as students from different universities and colleges battled it out for the coveted title of Campus Dodgeball League (CDL) champions. The dodgeball competition – exclusively for institutions of higher learning – saw nine top university […]
By KEVIN TAN and PHYLLIS HO These days, going vegetarian or vegan isn’t just a health consideration or religious practice. It is a lifestyle statement, a philosophy, a way of life. Thanks to the countless pop culture references to veganism, like Brandon Routh’s vegan supervillain in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and the eye-catching viral […]
ONE mother’s quest to help depressed teenagers find hope before they resort to suicide inspired our cover story last week on #depression. Dr. Florance Sinniah’s “Know the SIGN” campaign has been providing talks, depression screenings and volunteer counsellors to schools in Penang and Kedah; helping students realise they are not alone in feeling depressed or […]
Did you know that some people have the ability to instantly identify or sing any given musical note without any point of reference? That ability is called “perfect pitch”, and it’s something that film director Quek Shio Chuan does not possess.
For the youth, by the youth By SARENRAJ RAJENDRAN, MARCUS HENG and LIM JIE SHENG alltherage@thestar.com.my On a Sunday morning when most of us would have just remained under the sheets for a few extra hours, thousands of energetic young people flooded the Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall, Petaling Jaya on Malaysia Day to […]
The BRATs had the opportunity to talk to the boys of The Wanted.
When Sarah Zainal was a teenager, she never really bothered with fashion. Now that she’s 29 and a successful electro-pop singer-songwriter who goes by the name Ze!, well, the picture here pretty much speaks for itself.