I have grown up with dogs all my life and it’s amazing how ‘human’ they can be. I remember Jack, who used to hide in a corner and start shaking when an argument broke out at home. They always knew when we were angry. They also knew we were going away when they saw us Read the rest →

I wonder whether mothers have an unexplainable sixth sense when it comes to their children because I was reading the story of a mother called Aba Gayle who suddenly left her workplace to go home early in the fall of 1980, saying, “I had a funny feeling something was wrong but I didn’t know what Read the rest →

I WOKE up with a jolt when my girlfriend called me up wailing on the phone, “Oh my God! I can’t do this anymore!” She had spent the whole night worried sick about her boyfriend, not realising he had collapsed outside her front door from drinking too much. By day, he was a totally different Read the rest →

I was a part of 12 celebrities who gathered together to design our very own limited edition MACY sofas for charity. It was really fun!!! We’ve all never done this before. We got to choose what style, shape, colour and fabric we wanted, right down to the sofa legs. The best part about it, is Read the rest →

Taken from my Star column today, Fri 6th May on M17 Life is unpredictable but one thing’s for sure. We are all going to die someday. Just recently, my insurance agent was asking me about my will and I immediately thought to myself, “But that’s for grown-ups and older people!” But she was right to Read the rest →

The closest I’ve ever come to my very own “Avatar” experience wasn’t in some distant, far away nation. It was right here in Malaysia, deep in the heart of the Borneo jungle, to shoot a documentary in Kampung Buayan, Sabah. It was so remote that it took 4 hours off road from Kota Kinabalu and Read the rest →

Guys, as usual I was cracking my head over what topic I wanted to write about next. My “bears harvested for their parts” article was very depressing but I strongly felt that the cruelty bears in captivity endure need all the help and exposure they can get so I wanted to raise awareness. This one’s Read the rest →

Bears ‘harvested’ for their parts A Different Spin By JO-JO STRUYS There are moments in our lives that can change us forever. For a British lady called Jill Robinson, founder of Animals Asia Foundation, it was when she broke away from her tour group and walked right into a bear bile farm in China years Read the rest →

Guys, here’s my article from today’s Star… Waking up early as a resolution A DIFFERENT SPIN By JO-JO STRUYS I was fired up at the beginning of last year with a few New Year resolutions I was determined to carry out. One of them was to learn a musical instrument. Check. I have long been Read the rest →

THROUGHOUT the ages, women have gone to great lengths and subjected themselves to various forms of “torture” in the name of beauty. In the 10th century, the custom of binding women’s feet in China was a culture practised for almost a thousand years until it was finally outlawed in 1949. Just thinking about the process Read the rest →