May 17, 2009 Sunday
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The Peranakan Ball shares some of the cast with the hit TV series The Little Nyonya, as well as its wardrobe of sarong kebayas.

But that is where the similarities end. The musical, 'inspired by' the Channel 8 show, has nothing with it, unless you count taking blatant advantage of the programme's popularity to sell a less-than- mediocre production as some sort of relationship.

 
Nobody sparks dance craze

CLUBBERS are doing it. Students are doing it at orientation camps. Contemporary dance studios are getting their instructors to learn it.

'It' is the latest mass dance craze, Nobody, inspired by Korean five-member girl band Wonder Girls and their hit single of that name.

Oxford's 1st female poetry prof

LONDON - RUTH Padel became the first ever woman Professor of Poetry at Oxford University after beating an Indian poet in an election on Saturday which ended an often bitter contest.

Ms Padel, a distant relative of Charles Darwin, was elected with 297 votes cast by graduates and academic staff of the prestigious university.

UK teen in 'Fish Tank'

LONDON - DIRECTOR Andrea Arnold thinks teenagers get bad press.

Especially British teenagers, routinely depicted in the country's media as a social menace - yobs, track-suited 'hoodies,' the victims and perpetrators of knife crime.

   
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