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By DENIELLE LEONG brats@thestar.com.my VOLUNTEERING may not be a common pastime for most Malaysian youngsters, but for one in particular, Quek Xing Yen, it has become quite the healthy addiction. The 17-year-old student, who moved to Los Angeles, California with her family when she was nine, spent 260 hours volunteering in 2012 – earning her […]
By DANIEL SUBRAMANIAM brats@thestar.com.my HOW many times have you thought of an idea that could change the world? The best invention since 24-hour mamak stalls, perhaps? Now, how many times have you actually voiced out those ideas? Probably not as often as you hoped. I still remember my first assignment as a BRAT, […]
By ANDRIAN TAM brats@thestar.com.my Getting bored easily could be something that’s good, and bad. I love doing a lot of things and trying new things. At the same time, when I get through trying something, I get bored and move on to something else. This is basically where I got my interest in so many […]
By SARENRAJ RAJENDRAN Photos by ABEL CHI brats@thestar.com.my It’s not every day you get to watch some of Asia’s best drift racers in action performing their inch-perfect swerving manoeuvers. Well for us BRATs, we got to actually be in the car with those drivers. Last Saturday, Malaysia’s “Price of Drift” Tengku Djan Ley and Japanese […]
By ZARRAH MARI MORDEN, YAP YI PENG and JOSHUA RALPH KAMIJAN brats@thestar.com.my The Nerf community in Malaysia might not be the biggest, but judging from the response to the Nerf Showdown tournament last week at KDU University College, Selangor, it is definitely growing. Organised by the Nerf Daman–sara community and KDU Uni–versity College, the event […]
By DENIELLE LEONG brats@thestar.com.my At my first BRATs assignment, I barely knew what I was doing. All I had prepared for my interview with Thia Megia (American Idol Season 10 finalist) when she visited Malaysia last year was a list of generic questions – one of which was “sowhat do you think of […]
THE final BRATs workshop of the year will be held on August 14-17, and you can still be a part of it! This time, we’ll be taking the 40 successful applicants (aged 16-19) for awesome field assignments all around Penang. And with the help of editors, journalists, photographers and videographers from The Star, you will […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]