This Is Where I Won’t Be Alone: On Home and Belonging
Reading Time: 7 minutes By Janelle See Jia Xin (27A01D) I always found National Day to be an enigmatic event. Every August, the whole of Singapore is decked out in red and white. In schools, we’d...
View ArticleA love letter to Yo-Chi and A Hot Hideout
Reading Time: 7 minutes By Tran My Linh (27A01B) I have a relatively expensive taste for someone who’s still living off my parents’ allowance. For one, I love Mala–but not just any Mala...
View ArticleJoo Chiat Road: Sign of the Times
Reading Time: 6 minutes By Huang Han Cheng (26S05B) and Kunchur Bharat (26A01B) Taking a walk in Joo Chiat, one might form a rather simplistic image of the area. Rows of mixed-use shophouses inhabited...
View ArticleThe Invite: Raffles Modern Dance Showcase ’26
Reading Time: < 1 minute By Koh Shin Robbie (26A01A) and Lerraine Neo (26A01A) To many, pulling off a full dance showcase would be unthinkable for a batch of four Year 6s. The reality is, it still...
View Article“Sing!” — Raffles Chorale Showcase 2026
Reading Time: 5 minutes By Kunchur Bharat (26A01B) and Prajna Girish (27S06O) All photographs provided by Skyler Chen Yuanzhe (27S03A) and Huang Zhi En (27S03B) from Raffles Arts and Photographic...
View ArticleReclaiming the Throne: Table Tennis Girls’ NSG Finals 2026
Reading Time: 6 minutes By Teo Kai Xu (27A01B) All images courtesy of Raffles Art and Photographic Society unless otherwise stated. The Girls’ Team marching into the arena. (Photo provided by Aleenta...
View ArticleAre You Truly Enjoying Life? (The Photo Dilemma)
Reading Time: 6 minutes By Sophie Sim (27S05A) All photos courtesy of Orlando Khoo (27S06F) unless otherwise stated. Scrolling through my camera roll, I see all the events I’ve been a part of, all the...
View ArticleYes Justin, It’s Finally Clocking To Us
Reading Time: 5 minutes By Jaden Lum (26S05A) Bieber Fever is back. In recent years, it’s been suspiciously latent, lurking in the shadows, waiting to break out yet again, and now, out of a desert in...
View ArticleAiming For The Podium: Badminton NSG 2026
Reading Time: 10 minutes By Dara Tan (27A01A) and Sean Loh (27S06I) Photographs courtesy of Tay Kai-En, Othniel (27S03Q) from RAPS This year, both the boys and the girls of the RI badminton team...
View ArticleThe Case for Google Apps : Why They Are *Objectively* Better (For School)
Reading Time: 7 minutes By Dara Tan (27A01A) I nearly screamed aloud on the first day of orientation, in the middle of the lecture hall, with all of the 300-odd new JC students there. Why? The new...
View ArticleIlia Malinin: The Quad God who Learned to Fall
Reading Time: 7 minutes By Saadhana Kalimuthu (27A01C) All photographs sourced from Getty Images. The ball, the smell of the sea, code duello or “the voice”—a strange, haunting collage of sounds, over...
View ArticleModern Day Torture (Raja Level 7)
Reading Time: 6 minutes By Prajna Girish (27S06O) Ever been dealt a hand so messed up you stop to wonder what sin you must’ve committed in your past life to deserve it? Well, that was what happened to...
View ArticleWhy is 2016 Back?
Reading Time: 7 minutes By: Gladys Koh (26A01B) “We Ain’t Ever Getting Older” Now playing: Closer – The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey Palm trees are swaying. The sky is a vibrant purple-pink. The...
View ArticleModern Day Torture (Raja Level 7)
Reading Time: 7 minutes By Prajna Girish (27S06O) Ever been dealt a hand so messed up you stop to wonder what sin you must’ve committed in your past life to deserve it? Well, that was what happened to...
View ArticleTreading Through Thick and Thin: NSG 2026 Boys’ Water Polo
Reading Time: 7 minutes By Mary Tu (27S06O) and Tan Yun Jun (27S03M) All photographs provided by Xu Fengxuan (27S03M), Zhu Jiajia Christine (27S03G) and Zhu Taiwu (26S06K) from RIAC Pre-game 11.15am,...
View ArticleWhy Study Motivation Content is Failing You
Reading Time: 6 minutes By Tan Yun Jun (27S03M) “I Lack Motivation to Study” We have all heard it, or perhaps said it ourselves. It is a universal sentiment amongst students, the frustrating feeling of...
View ArticleBeyond the Rot: How Brainrot Divides (and Unites) Us All
Reading Time: 6 minutes By Gregory Ng (27S05A), Mary Tu (27S06O) and Ong Tsz Xiang (27S06M) How did you react to this image? Either the frightful howl of children screaming “SIX SEVEN” manifested in...
View ArticleTradition Adrift: Orang Laut Heritage in a Modern Nation
Reading Time: 8 minutes By Gladys Koh (26A01B), Kunchur Bharat (26A01B) and Lerraine Neo (26A01A) All images, unless otherwise stated, were taken by the writers. Before Lee Kuan Yew, the Crown...
View ArticleWhen Machines Wage War, Who Remembers?
Reading Time: 5 minutes By Gladys Koh (26A01B) For all of its devastation, war has a way of forcing invention. A century ago, when the first tanks rolled over the mire of the First World War, soldiers...
View ArticleMurder at the Biodiversity Pond
Reading Time: 5 minutes By Sophie Sim (27S05A) The Visitor: An Adventure Log 24 FEB 3:23PM: An unexpected guest had made a splashy entrance at our Biodiversity Pond: An otter. A real, whiskered,...
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