CCA Previews’20: Computer Science Club
By Stanley Benjamin Yukon (20S03M), Vice-Chairperson Amazon has nearly no stores. Uber owns almost no cars. Facebook creates no content and Bitcoin (as we all know) has no physical coins. However,...
View ArticleCCA Previews ’20: Bridge Club
By Bridge Club “No matter where I go, I can always make new friends at the bridge table.” – Martina Navratilova Perhaps you are more familiar with the simpler, more casual version of bridge commonly...
View ArticleCCA Previews ’20: Tenpin Bowling
By Raffles Bowling To the untrained eye, bowling seems simple. It’s always the same bowling ball, rolling down the same lane, in the same bowling alley. Again, again and again. But beneath the surface,...
View ArticleCCA Preview ‘20: Water Polo
By Coline Staes-Polet (20A13A), Girls Captain, Brandon Tan (20S03G) Boys Captain, Vivien Tai (20S03G), Girls Vice-Captain, Edison Yap (20S07B), Boys Vice-Captain If you ever happen to be craving an...
View ArticleCCA Previews ’20: Cross Country
By Lim Zhi Xuan (20S03J), Girls’ Captain and Thaddaeus Ng (20S07A), Boys’ Captain Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport. – Chuck Norris Indeed,...
View ArticleCCA Previews ’20: Community Advocates
By Cherie Goh (20S06O), Chairperson, and Lily Wei (20S03C), Vice-Chairperson An Introduction to Advocacy In the midst of our hectic day to day life, it is all too easy to overlook a glaringly obvious...
View ArticleCCA Previews '20: Raffles Debaters
By Raffles Debaters Exco ’20 Who are debaters? Perhaps you have seen us on one of our regular trips to Chill, leaving with an armful of coffee, honey lemon and Strepsils (and sometimes, to the sighs...
View ArticleCCA Previews '20: Soccer (Boys)
By Soccer (Boys) While the football boys aren’t exactly known to have the sharpest minds out there, don’t let the cheery, happy-go-lucky exterior fool you. Trainings are intense and serious, with the...
View ArticleCCA Previews '20: Piano Ensemble
By Megan Hon (20S06D), Chairperson, Shitong (20S06G), Vice-Chairperson, Zhang Ming (20S07A), Musical Director, and Ruoqing (20S06O), Secretary Psst… do you feel like you are a green banana sometimes,...
View ArticleBandemonium XVIII: Fiesta
By Valerie Tan (20A01E) and Emily Ni (20S03C)Photographs courtesy of Raffles Photographic Society Before walking into Albert Hong Hall on 7 December 2019, we’d just eaten a whole box of popcorn in the...
View ArticleCCA Previews '20: Squash
By Zachary Chan (20S06B), Boys’ Captain and Ashley Fok (20S07C), Girls’ Captain Have you ever felt like you are hitting walls in your life? Squash players would tell you they are doing that every...
View ArticleCCA Previews ’20: Fencing
By: Alastair Tam (20S06N), Boys’ Captain, and Yasmin Tay (20A01C), Treasurer Did you know that the fencing sword is the second fastest moving object in sports after the marksman’s bullet? Pretty cool,...
View ArticleCCA Previews '20: Raffles Jazz
By Alvan Png (20A03A), Chairperson, Lam Weng Chung (20S03Q), Vice-Chairperson, Kong Pek Yan (20S06A), Secretary, and Teo Gi Sing (20S06T), Quartermaster “Do not fear mistakes—there are none.”Miles...
View ArticleCCA Previews ‘20: Raffles Chorale
By Jerome Tay (20S06Q) and Wang Xuyang, Chairperson (20S06K) Choral singing isn’t easy. Hours of hard work are to be invested in every piece that Raffles Chorale performs. Magical moments, beautiful...
View ArticleVocal Delights 2019: Volaré
By Benjamin Liew (20A03A) and Ng Jing Ting (20A13A)Photos courtesy of Celine Chung (20S06H) of Raffles Photographic Society Last year’s instalment of Vocal Delights having proved no less than a...
View ArticleCCA Previews ’20: Softball
By Tasha Ting (20S06F), Vice-captain and Max Koh (20S06U), Vice-captain You stand at the plate. 3 balls, 2 strikes, 2 down, bases loaded. The winning run at third base. “Play ball.” Your grip on the...
View ArticleCCA Previews ‘20: Raffles Players
By Liu Kaizhong (20S03C), Quartermaster and Fiona Xiao (20A01A), Quartermistress What does it mean to be in Raffles Players? The first thing which comes to your mind is probably just acting and...
View ArticleCCA Previews '20: Students' Council
By Ian Michael Yam (20A01A) and Wong Chia Ying (20S03C), Secretaries of the Students’ Council “Council comprises 3 departments – Welfare, Communications Department (Commz’D) and CCA Department (CCAD)...
View ArticleCCA Previews ‘20: Raffles Press
By Ng Ziqin (20S03H), Chairperson, and Sarah Lok (20A03A), Vice-Chairperson (Editorial) Six weeks and 67 CCAs later, it’s finally our turn! A curious and somewhat charming breed of student, the...
View ArticleRank It: Chewing on Cookies
By Sarah Lok (20A03A) and Valerie Tan (20A01E) Here’s a challenge: try naming some cookie stores in Singapore. Chances are, you probably have Famous Amos in your list. But maybe it’s the only name on...
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