PORTFOLIO

A selection of articles written for The Star (2000 - 2009)
  • Culture and Heritage
  • Orang Asli (Aborigines)
  • Travel
  • Nature
  • Health
  • Food Highlights
  • Personalities
  • War and History
  • All Things Geek - Role Playing Games, Anime, Manga, Games

Culture and Heritage
More articles:
  • Nyonya beaded slippers - a grandmother's labour of love - PDF
  • A man's passion for a highly unusual musical instrument: the angklung - PDF
  • Kampar town's hidden treasures and fading landmarks - PDF
  • A veteran photographer tells how his 'art' was practised in the old days - PDF
  • An adventurous group ventures into the Perak caves that housed fragments of Man's history - PDF

Orang Asli (Malaysian aborigines)

  • Orang asli activist Tijah Yok Chopil talks about the challenges and dreams of her people - PDF
  • Kampung Ulu Geroh villagers find a new source of income: guiding visitors to see the rare Rafflesia cantleyi - PDF
Travel
  • Journey to Mt Emei, a UNESCO world heritage site in China's Sichuan province - PDF
  • Meet the Batak tribespeople of Indonesia's Lake Toba - PDF
  • Perak's Belum Valley used to be a communist terrorist 'black area'. Now its pristine beauty is easily accessible - PDF
  • The effect of the devastating 2004 tsunami on Pangkor Island's tourism - PDF

Nature

  • Intellectual finds happiness as an organic farmer in Cameron Highlands - PDF
  • Nipplefruit and other rare plants disappearing in the Malaysian wild - PDF
  • Quarrying halts at the limestone hills surrounding Perak's stunning Tasek Cermin (Mirror Lake) - PDF

Health
  • Coming to terms with loved ones struck by schizophrenia - PDF
  • HIV-positive woman perseveres despite people telling her she 'deserved' the disease - PDF
  • Malaysians share how they battled the stigma as people living with HIV and AIDS - PDF
  • Housewife defies the odds to form support group after surviving massive stroke - PDF

Food

  • Pusing town, a tasty food haven in Perak - PDF
  • Ostrich egg 'kaya' (coconut jam) a big hit - PDF
  • A man's family business making the hugely popular Teluk Intan chee cheong fun - PDF
  • Mad rush for heong peah (molasses biscuit) - PDF
  • Kampar town's steaming hot chicken bread - PDF

Personalities
  • A man's devotion to medical plants - PDF
  • The woman who raised five orphans as her own after their mother died - PDF
  • The father of digiscoping talks about his birding passion - PDF
  • A coffeeshop owner by day turns into a suave ballroom dancer by night - PDF
  • The young Malaysian who helped bring Spider-Man 2 to life - PDF
  • Soprano Cynthia Lawrence reminisces on singing with the late Luciano Pavarotti - PDF

War and History
  • The brave men who held off the Japanese invasion for four days in the Battle of Kampar - PDF
  • Dr Leon Comber, the former Special Branch officer who helped track down communist terrorists - PDF
  • British historian bemoans loss of Malaya's rich postal history - PDF
  • Life goes on for the Kampar folk whose town was conquered by the Japanese during WWII - PDF
  • Master mariner counters claims by 1421 author that a Chinese fleet sailed to the Americas - PDF
  • Man meets doctor who delivered him during the hostile times of the Malayan Emergency - PDF

All Things Geek - RPGs, Anime and Manga Reviews, Games
  • A tabletop adventure with gargoyles and magic - PDF
  • Ipoh's own board game and card game store - PDF
  • A retelling of the Evangelion anime movie - PDF
  • Anime and manga, a Japanese craze, a global mania - PDF
  • The low-down on Fullmetal Alchemist - PDF
  • Drifting Classroom Vol 1: manga review - PDF