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Mental Health Awareness Week 2018: A Preview

By Mabel Yet (19S03Q) and Varun Karthik (19S06A) With campaigns about mental health issues popping up all over the world (Singapore included), as well as an unprecedented number of celebrities sharing...

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Is Appreciation Enough?

By Phang Yeu Yeou (19A01A) and Loh Lin (19A01D) Wait. Before you continue scrolling, we know. We know that race as a topic has already been discussed to death, in conversations and lectures and forums...

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On Racism and Chinese Privilege

By Soh Ying Qi (18A01C) It’s safe to say that this is not a safe topic. (The preceding sentence, ironically, may be the only one in this article that’s truly uncontroversial.) It’s nebulous and...

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Ka38idoscope: Council Investiture 2018

By Aaron Tan (19A01B) and Phang Yeu Yeou (19A01A) Photos by Raffles Photographic Society Terse, straight-spined, the members of the 37th students’ council sat onstage as schoolmates poured in to...

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Ready Player One – Is Entertainment Enough?

By Aaron Tan (19A01B) It was at South by Southwest 2017, one of the largest annual conglomerates of film, interactive media, and music conferences in the world, that cinematic legend Steven Spielberg...

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Raffles Players Presents: Noises Off!

By Lim Jing Rong (18A03A), Phang Yeu Yeou (19A01A), Caryn Chia (19A01A) Photos courtesy of Amy Lin (19A01B), Kathryn Oei (19A01A), Andrew Yap (19S06Q) and Tian Ruiying (19S05B) of Raffles Photographic...

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Five Ways to Build a Home: Film Showcase ’18

By Loh Lin (19A01D) and Kuang Shane Qi (19A13A) Photos courtesy of Kathryn Oei (19A01A) from Raffles Photographic Society Opening to a full house last Friday, Five Ways to Build a Home showcased films...

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Is the Past a Present?: The Timeless Compass History Dialogue

By Kuang Shane Qi (19A13A) and Wong Zi Yang (19A01D) Photos courtesy of Michael Chow (18A13A) and Saksham Bambha (18S03F) from Raffles Photographic Society What is History? Is it of any use at all? If...

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Proceed at Your Own Discretion: To Say or Not to Say

By Asfar Alim (18S03J) To say or not to say? That is the question. Do I risk contributing my idea for a project, even though it could get shot down immediately? Should I tell my good friend that their...

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Language and the World: CJC ELL Symposium 2018

By Loh Lin (19A01D) The study of language may seem like a perplexing choice to many who are unfamiliar with Linguistics as a subject — after all, why is there a need to focus on and examine something...

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Team Raffles Games: Week 1

By Raffles Press The snitch has been released! Over the past week, members from all five houses fought to do their houses proud, in a series of games that saw victors fall from grace and underdogs rise...

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What’s in a Home?

By Sarah Chen (19S03C) Without fail, every 9th of August brings with it a sudden burst of patriotism in Singaporeans, me included. It’s both heartwarming and odd — something that can only be witnessed...

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Team Raffles Games: Week 2

By Raffles Press The snitch remains in the air… It’s been over a week since TRG season drew to a close, where members from all five houses fought to do their houses proud, in a series of games that saw...

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FEEL: Mental Health Awareness Week 2018

By Mabel Yet (19S03Q) and Varun Karthik (19S06A) Photos courtesy of Kathryn Oei (19A01A) from Raffles Photographic Society In a perfectly ordered universe, we would hop out of our beds each morning at...

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Life in Plastic

By Sarah Chen (19S03C), Rachel Lee (19A01D) and Keziah Lam (19A01B) Disclaimer: This article, like all other Raffles Press articles, is not sponsored. You don’t need to be an active frequenter of...

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The New Faces: 38th Students’ Council Feature

By Wong Zi Yang (19A01D) and Joyce Lee (19S06O) Photos courtesy of the 38th Student’s Council Managing a 1200-strong student population with a team of 60 is no easy task — especially with the...

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It’s The Simple Things We Forget

By Mr. Christopher Selvaraj from the KS Department Cover photo by Differantly, a Paris/Berlin-based artist duo These can be challenging times to think through the state of race relations in Singapore....

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RCY Blood Donation Drive: We Feel No Fear and We Feel No Pain

By Loh Su Jean (19A01A) and Loh Lin (19A01D) Photos courtesy of Celine Chua (19S03H)  On the Wednesday afternoon of 25 July, an antiseptic hush descends upon the Innovation Centre. The usually empty...

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Staffroom Blues: A Day in the Life of a Teacher

By Loh Su Jean (19A01A), Rachel Lee (19A01D), and Kuang Shane Qi (19A13A) Monday mornings: exhausting, tedious, dread-inducing. This isn’t unfamiliar to the frazzled, sleep-deprived Rafflesian. But...

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Come Heed the Call: Promethean Ceremony 2018

By Yoon Shwe Yee (19S03B) and Kwee Qiao Ying (19S03K) Photos courtesy of Andrew Yap (19S06Q) and Ku Cheng Yong (19S06G) from Raffles Photographic Society  How many of us know what the word “Promethean”...

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