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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stories by Chia Chien Teng, Chiang Pang Fei, Tharaniya Nair and Tristan Chwee. LIFE in an oil palm plantation can sound much worse than it really is. Sure, the workers have to perform manual labour for eight hours a day and live in a small wooden hut with at least four other guys. Yes, there […]
The BRATs discover there’s way more to Johor Baru than meets the eye. FROM an exciting trip to Legoland to braving the hot sun in a fabrication yard to baking breads, the BRATs Johor Baru 2013 participants sure had lots of fun … and deadlines to meet. FYI, the BRATs programme is not a writing workshop […]
Once a BRAT, always a BRAT THERE is no getting rid of the BRATs … trust us, we’ve tried. The BRATs (Bright, Roving, Annoying, Teens) programme has been around for 20 years and with about 120 participants a year, one can only imagine the size of this “family”. Last week, we organised a reunion of […]
Teh Eng Hock, bureau chief, The Star From the bloody street protests in Bangkok to foreign diplomatic trips with the Prime Minister, Teh has covered his fair share of assignments in his eight years (and counting) as a news journalist in The Star – and it all came about after a BRATs workshop in 1998. […]
Capital FM deejay Xandria Ooi joined the BRATs in 1999 when she was 16. She went on to become a VJ for Astro’s Hitz.TV when she won the music channel’s UVJ Search in 2005, all the while writing for The Star as a BRAT. She now has her own column in StarMetro called Sights & […]