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CCA Preview’14: Piano Ensemble
Listless and can’t Handel the grind of school? Then piano ensemble’s the CCA for you. You may be wondering – why bother putting up with these lame musical puns? Why join a CCA with 25 pianos playing...
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CCA Preview ’14: Touch Rugby
Touch [tuhch] to give a slight tap or pat to with the hand, finger, etc.; strike or hit gently or lightly. Rug·by [ruhg-bee] a form of football that differs from soccer in freedom to carry the ball...
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CCA Preview’14: Interact
I noticed that many of my close friends have been searching for a meaningful way to help serve the community as they transitioned into JC life. With various service opportunities available to students,...
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CCA Preview’14: Recreational Badminton
The name RI is usually synonymous with competition. Rafflesians are encouraged to fight for the school, and display school pride. While certainly laudable, many-a-times, Rafflesians tend to get...
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CCA Preview’14: Raffles Jazz
“I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.” – Miles Davis Playful, yet earnest on the bandstand, Raffles Jazz is a close community of musicians who are passionate...
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CCA Preview’14: Raffles Entrepreneur’s Network
By Aaron Quak (14S03P) You have a dream. Somewhere inside of you, there lurks a drive to achieve, succeed and most of all, to create. Perhaps your goal is to make it big in life or to improve the way...
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CCA Preview’14: HISSOC
HISSOC, or the History and Strategic Affairs Society, is one of the oldest CCAs in RI, having been founded over a century ago at about the same time as when this school emerged on Singapore’s map....
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5 More Minutes of Your Life You’re Never Getting Back
by Angelica Chong 14A01B 1.5 Hours of Your Life You’re Never Getting Back: A Preview It’s a Thursday night. Too late in the week to have any energy to finish (or should it be or perhaps start) your...
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CCA Preview’14: Track & Field
Track and Field. An individual sport with a team spirit. In fact, it’s more like four sports- sprints, jumps, throws, and pole vault. Quite apart from the abundance of good-looking teammates you’ll...
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Please Mind The Platform Gap: Relationships in RI
The guest writer of this article has requested to remain anonymous. To some, dealing with the opposite sex is not simply a matter of minding the platform gap. It is a veritable chasm, with most of us...
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Why we don’t debate alone: Winning ESDC ’14
By Lee Chin Wee 14A01B Not too long ago, I was wrong about debating. Perhaps because my views were blinkered by the heavily televised debates between American Presidential candidates or by watching my...
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[Please Mind the Platform Gap] Orientation 2014: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By Feng Zhuo (14S03S) Photos taken from the Orientation Facebook Page Orientation. That big word associated with hope, anticipation, and perhaps even a bit of fear. It’s coming your way, but you don’t...
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The Five Dollar Question
By Gao Wenxin 14A03A What can you get for SGD$5? Last December, I had been dared by my dear friend Chin Wee to take on the $5 Challenge. Challenge accepted, I thought, Barney Stinson-style. The premise...
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In Remembrance: Aunty Haw
By Tan Jun Xiang 14S06C Raffles Press recently received the sad news that the owner of the Haw’s Kitchen canteen stall passed away on the 27th of January, after a prolonged struggle against breast...
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101 Crowdsourced Ideas for Valentine’s Day
By Allison Choong 14S05B, Arintha Adelina 14S05B, Law May Ning 14S03O, Seraphine Chanentia 14S06N Q. What would you expect a girlfriend/boyfriend to do for you on Valentine’s Day? A. Kiss me. - Female...
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Being a JAE in RI – Just Another Environment
Jayne Chan 14S03D, Sushma Pai 14S03R, Divya Muthiah 14S06C At the start of every new year, 300 brave O level survivors will enter the realm of the Raffles world, facing excitement, apprehensiveness and...
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The Practical Side of the Budget Cuts: Why We Should Be Concerned
By Austin Zheng 14A01B In recent weeks, MOE has announced significant budget cuts for several independent schools and a slew of restrictions on expenditures, prompting parliamentary questions and...
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The Importance of Equality in Practice
By Lee Chin Wee and Jeremy Khoo 14A01B “The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition — all the great religions, all the great movements, all the great...
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More Than Words: Kaleidos 2014
By Celine Liu 15A01E, Michelle Zhu 15A01B, and Nai Jie Lin 15A13A Photo Credits: Raffles Institution Year 5 – 6 Orientation 2014 Facebook Page Kaleidos – from Ancient Greek Kalos, meaning beautiful,...
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Eclipse of an Orientation Cycle: Survival of the Fittest (OGs)
by Lee Wei Hern (14S03T) and Benedict Koh (14S06N) Before the Year 5s open a new chapter in their lives and embark on two years of JC life, they go through a traditional rite of passage- the four-day...
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