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Keep Calm: How to Motivate Yourself to Study (II)
by Choo Shuen Ming (16A01E) In this second installment of how to motivate oneself, Press takes a deeper look at motivation in an interview with counsellors Jeffrey and Mei Hui at the Underground. In...
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Please Mind the Platform Gap (Universities Edition): University of York
by Karen Cuison (16A01D) and Qiu Kexin (16A13A) Photos courtesy of Gan Yu Neng (09A03A) Thinking about which university to apply to, or already a J2 beginning your early admission applications? Raffles...
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Nationally Speaking: Music Matters
by Liew Ai Xin (16A01A) It was in December 2014 when news of a mega-concert for Singapore’s 50th Golden Jubilee made waves in the music community, and shortly afterwards, the application process...
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Once Upon A Time: Why Relationships End
by Olivia Tan (16A01E) and Liew Ai Xin (16A01A) Let’s get real. For most of us who came from single-sex secondary schools, “Junior College” (JC) was originally seen not as “the two years before A...
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Nationally Speaking: Catching Up with the Polls
by Justin Lim (16A01B) and Md Khairillah (16A01B) Visit tinyurl.com/15gee for a detailed breakdown of the election results in comparison to GE 2011. At 10 pm last night, the sample counts saw the...
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Becoming Singaporeans
by Valerie Chee (15S07B), Michelle Zhu (15A01B), Chew Cheng Yu (16S06L), Sean Lim (16A13A), Kristal Ng (16S07C) and Monica Lee (16S06J) This article is a preview from the upcoming Issue #5 of the...
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We are Singapore, but who are ‘We’?
by Lee Chin Wee (14A01B) This article is a preview from the upcoming Issue #5 of the Rafflesian Times, slated for release this week. My grandma tells me that her father was 23 when he left his village...
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Broken Telephone: Life Without a Smartphone
by Kristal Ng (16S07C) The first thing I hear when I tell people that I don’t have a smartphone is usually, “How do you live like that?” followed by a fascinated “Can I see?” before I display my retro...
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Notes from the Underground: Coping with Promo Results (Part 1)
‘The measure of someone successful is how you manage to overcome disappointments.’ by Adelyn Tan (16A01E) and Esther Gao Yan Xin (16S03N) The process of getting back the much dreaded Promotional...
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Notes from the Underground: Coping with Promo Results (Part 2)
‘The measure of someone successful is how you manage to overcome disappointments.’ by Adelyn Tan (16A01E) and Esther Gao Yan Xin (16S03N) In the second part of our interview with the Raffles Guidance...
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Dealing with Disappointment
by Darrell Koh (16A13A) As any exam looms closer, one inevitably thinks of the gruelling exams for which the descent into “mega mugging madness” is the only method of survival. At this point, it is...
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Hazy Days
By: Sean Lim (16A13A) Till recently, it has been awhile since we’ve seen blue skies. Caused by forest fires in Indonesia, the recent haze affecting Singapore and neighbouring countries in the region,...
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Examining Essena
by Justin Lim (16A01B) I was not struck with the same sense of wonder at Essena O’Neill’s resignation from Instagram after a brave declaration that involved a spectacular overhaul of her posts to...
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Three Attacks, One Filter?
by Karen Cuison (16A01D) I first saw it at the top of my Facebook news feed: a lively exhortation to “Try it Now”. Beside the button, my profile picture – enlarged, and rendered in the French...
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Nationally Speaking: Personalizing Aliens
By: Samuel Loh (16A01A) Source: Wall Street Journal Few other developed countries employ foreign labor to the extent we do in Singapore, and fewer still do so with as little pretension as us. There is...
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PHOTO ESSAY: Behind the Bicycle Plays (Part One)
By: Choo Shuen Ming (16A01E) This is Part One of a photo essay documenting the backstage happenings of Raffles Players’ most recent production, The Bicycle Plays. Part One casts an inward-looking eye...
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PHOTO ESSAY: Behind the Bicycle Plays (Part Two)
By: Choo Shuen Ming (16A01E) This is Part Two of a photo essay documenting the backstage happenings of Raffles Players’ most recent production, The Bicycle Plays. Part One casts an inward-looking eye...
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The Holiday Bucketlist
by Daphne Tang (16S03M) and Lim Lex-xis (16S03M) As we near the halfway mark of our year-end holidays, now becomes an optimal point for us to take stock of what we’ve been doing so far, and think of...
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5 Things I Wish I’d Known About Finishing A Levels
by Joyce Er (15A01A) So this is it. You’re a fresh-faced J1 or anxious J2 anticipating (or dreading) what will be the culmination of 12 years of Singaporean education: the A Level exams. You’re...
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Grad Night 2015: Fashion Watch
by Heather I’anson-Holton (16A01E) and Adelyn Koh (16S06H) Photos by Chang Po Chun (16S03K) and Hoong Li-Ann (16A03A) During the annual Grad Night on 3 December a week ago, the fashion sleuths of...
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