Floorball Boys’ Finals 2018
By Keziah Lam (19A01B), Mahima Sowrirajan (19S07A), Grace Lau (18S03I) Photos courtesy of BC Tng (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sportygraphy/sets/72157694708686652/with/42731166131/) We arrived at...
View ArticleCricket Finals 2018
By Nicole Chan (19S05A) and Shervon Lee (19S06A) Photographs courtesy of Dionne Pok (19S06P) of the Raffles Photographic Society While students were fighting the urge to fall asleep in lectures on the...
View ArticleTake Heart: Guitar Ensemble’s Esperanza
By Joyce Lee (19S06O) and Kwee Qiao Ying (19S03K) Photographs courtesy of Andrew Yap (19S06Q) and Ku Cheng Yong (19S06G) of the Raffles Photographic Society On the 18th of May, hundreds of students and...
View ArticleShooting to Silver: Netball Finals 2018
By Joyce Lee (19S06O) and Nicole Chan (19S05A) Photos courtesy of Li Ruiqi (19A01A) and Chloe Tan (19S03E) of the Raffles Photographic Society Rounding off a successful season, Raffles Netball emerged...
View ArticleSombre on Strings: A Rendition by Raffles Chamber Ensemble
By Calista Chong (18A01A) and Wong Zi Yang (19A01D) On 12 May, Raffles Chamber Ensemble held its annual concert, titled Sombre, in Lecture Theatre 2. Although its title conveyed melancholy, the...
View ArticleRI’s New Cafe, Professor Brawn: Great Food with a Great Cause
By Loh Lin (19A01D), Alyssa Marie Loo (19A13A) and Liu Enqi (19A01C) Rumours have been going around: “There’s a new cafe where the old Manna Cafe was? And there’s Gong Cha?!” We at Raffles Press have...
View ArticleRaffles Symphonic Band: A Tempo XXVII
By Loh Su Jean (19A01A) and Ben Lim (19S03I) Photos Courtesy of Amy Lin (19A01B) and Ku Cheng Yong of Raffles Photographic Society “A Tempo” is Italian for “to the tempo”. This piece of musical...
View ArticleWhy Rafflesians Serve: Motivations for VIA Activities
By Angus Yip (18A01A) Several weeks ago, during my walk to the parade square for morning assembly, I saw many people stop to look at a poster near the Innovation Centre. No, not a poster – a piece of...
View ArticleRockout 2018: Press Play
By Chloe Wong (19S07C) and Ina Song (19S07C) Photographs courtesy of S Rahul (19S06A) and Dylan Siew (19S06E) It was sensational. Held on 26th May at *SCAPE Ground Theatre, Raffles Rockout: Press Play...
View ArticleCLDCS Concert’18: Lost and Found?
By Elizabeth Leong (18S06G), Ling Young Loon (18S07A) and Zhu Xiuhua (18S06A) On 18 May 2018, the Chinese Language and Drama Cultural Society (CLDCS) presented to its audience a variety of art forms in...
View ArticleFilm Society Screening: (Be)Longing
By Loh Lin (19A01D), Kuang Shane Qi (19A13A) and Sarah Chen (19S03C) How do we grapple with notions of belonging? The second installment in Film Society’s Hodge Lodge screening series dealt with just...
View ArticleSelf-help: Comforting Chicken Soup or Cold Celery Soup?
By Zacchaeus Chok (18S03O) Whenever I go to the bookstore, my go-to section is the self-help section. In particular, I often seek out advice from personal management and pop psychology books, a...
View ArticleIt’s an Eco-LIT! Book Launch 2018
By Loh Lin (19A01D) Photos courtesy of Koh Yin Jie (18S03Q) “Look closer. Look longer. Look harder.” Found also in the biography of Eco-lit Batch 18’s Instagram, this tripartite prompt was reiterated...
View ArticleConfluence 2018: A Meeting of Minds
By Clarine See (18S03G) and Zacchaeus Chok (18S03O) Photographs courtesy of Aiken Lee (18S06G) For their final batch project in Community Advocates (CA), the Y6 members organised an event targeted at...
View ArticleOn the Second-hand
By Abigail Ang (18S06B) Donating second hand items is a common experience for many Singaporeans – those who live in HDB flats will have inevitably found the yellow recycling bag on their doorstep from...
View ArticleBlaze the Bay: ‘A’ Division Dragonboating Finals 2018
By Isabelle Tan (19S03S), Vanessa Lur (19S06Q) and Phang Yeu Yeou (19A01A) Photos courtesy of Raffles Dragonboating This year’s ‘A’ Division Dragon Boating Finals was a significant event for the newly...
View ArticleRaffles Photographic Society: 50by50
By Ina Song (19S07C) and Chloe Wong (19S07C) Photos by Chloe Tan (19S03E) and Melvin Liam (19S05B) Held at Dhoby Ghaut’s Visual Arts Centre, 50by50 was an exhibition of works created by members of the...
View ArticleLights, Camera, Fashion: RPROJ 2018
By Lynn Hong (18A13A), Zhu Xiuhua (18S06A) and Soh Ying Qi (18A01C) Photos courtesy of Xi Wenhan (19S07A) and Alyssa Marie Loo (19A13A) If upon entering Joyden Hall on the evening of Friday, 25 May,...
View ArticlePulling Ahead: Ultimate Inter-JCs Finals 2018
By Claire Zhai (19S03B) and Shervon Lee (19S06A) Photographs by Jiang Jin Liang (19S06N) of the Raffles Photographic Society In their 2018 CCA preview, featured on “Word of Mouth” earlier this year,...
View ArticleOf Checked Shirts and Courage: A Croatian Swan Song
By Lynn Hong (18A13A) At the 67th minute, five Croatian defenders look on, helpless, as Mbappe drives the ball past them into the net, 25 yards from goal. Three goals up, France is going to win. But...
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