Get Personal: Zlwin Chew
If cliché magic tricks are just too common and uninteresting, then get ready to have your socks rocked off by performer Zlwin Chew!
Singing With The Choir
By GAN HUI WAN IT was with tears that the spectacular show ended. The hall at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) in Kuala Lumpur was bursting with thunderous applause as the choir members embraced each other and performed the final encore number May Our Paths Meet Again. I held hands with the ones […]
Work-ing it
By NASA MARIA ENTABAN alltherage@thestar.com.my EVERY week for almost three years, I’ve had my little corner in R.AGE to write about fashion and beauty events, personalities, shows and trends, and also to run giveaways and get your feedback on what’s hot in the world of fashion. In the six years that I’ve worked here, I’ve […]
Get Personal: Rahmat Che Hassim
By ANGELIN YEOH WHEN the people at Nike decide to call their global football talent search competition “The Chance”, they probably didn’t expect it to be so aptly named for Rahmat Che Hassim. According to Rahmat, who is from Kelantan, he has been playing football since he was six, and the competition was literally his […]
A photographer’s story
By JASON LIOH Photos by LUKE CHUA alltherage@thestar.com.my I was introduced to photographer Luke Chua’s blog by a friend, and I was really amazed by his work. His photos, technically and artistically, were definitely not the work of an amateur. In fact, they looked at the very least like the work of a semi-professional. Now […]
Melora Takes Off
By ANGELIN YEOH IN 2010, while studying at Fairview International School Kuala Lumpur, Melora Shahabuddin was assigned to come up with her own project and complete it. As writing is something she’s passionate about, she decided to write a book. She then turned to her mother to discuss the content. “My mum volunteers with the […]
Life after London
Stories by ANGELIN YEOH Pandelela Rinong AS a child growing up in Kampung Jugan, Sarawak, Pandelela Rinong Pamg said she was very active and one of her favourite things to do was play at the river. “I was always jumping around at the sungai. It was fun,” she said. At that time, no one imagined […]
Tweetjacked
By KEVIN TAN and PHYLLIS HO alltherage@thestar.com.my ONE fine day, Chee Yun Sam, a 22-year-old model, started getting a barrage of angry tweets and messages from his friends. Apparently, Chee had posted something rather racist on his Twitter account, and a lot of people weren’t taking too kindly to it. Only problem was – […]
Last week’s tag: #Hipster
You think being called a hipster is hard? Try getting people to tell you what they think of hipsters. We ran a #RAGEchat after last week’s cover story, and here’s what you Tweeples had to say about them: @MidorCole: Definition of a hipster: someone with too much free time and way too many personal […]
At the Olympics
One BRAT jumped off a roof and it landed her right at the London 2012 Olympics. By SANDRA TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my HOW often does one jump off their roof to try to win a chance to go to the Olympic Games? Not very often, really – and it is strictly advised that nobody tries it – […]