Raffles Reads: Providence
By Neo Xin Yuan (21A01D) Rating: ★★★☆☆ Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own...
View ArticleRaffles Reads: The Good Day I Died
By Tan Yu You (21S03H) Rating: ★★★★★ The answer to life, the universe and everything may be 42 (a reference to Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)—but is there an answer to death?...
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Environmentalism in Raffles: Living On After COVID-19
By Shaun Loh (21A01A) About a year ago, immediately after taking the Mother Tongue O Level examination, a small group of Year 4 students congregated in a classroom at Sheares Block. “Should I call us...
View ArticleInterview Feature: Alyssa Marie Loo, 2020 President’s Scholar
By Shaun Loh (21A01A), Noelle Leow (21A01B), and Samyak Jain (21S03A)Photos courtesy of Michael Chow The President’s Scholarship is awarded to students who have ‘gone beyond excellence in academic...
View ArticleRaffles Symphonic Band 2020: Catharsis
By Neo Xin Yuan (21A01D), Snehal Sachde (21S07C), and Soh Jing Yee (21S03Q) Catharsis. As you click on the IVY notification, you may come across this word and take a pause. It’s not a word we use...
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The Brilliance of 100 gecs’ Anarchist Pop
By Charles Toh (21A01D) 100 gecs just wants to have fun. In what is possibly the most unexpected turn of events ever, the experimental pop project of St. Louis-born independent musicians Dylan Brady...
View ArticleRaffles Reads: The Authenticity Project
By Max Chwa (21A01B) and Samyak Jain (21S03A) Rating: ★★☆☆☆ What would happen if we were all honest about our true selves? That’s the question The Authenticity Project seeks to answer. In this novel,...
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Putting Meaning to Masks
By Sara Chia (21S03G) When one mentions Home-Based Learning, a shudder involuntarily comes at the reminder of all those days spent cooped up at home, with most of us spending them toiling away at our...
View ArticleRaffles Reads: The Night of Legends
By Clarice Tan (21A01C) Raffles Reads is a collaboration between Raffles Press and Times Reads which aims to promote a reading culture among Singaporean students. Rating: 3.5/5 stars A military...
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things: The “Unreliable Narrator” Film to End All Others?
By Charles Toh (21A01D) Rating: ★★★★☆ Spoilers for I’m Thinking of Ending Things follow. “I don’t like… what’s that called, abstract art? I could do abstract art. Couple strokes on a blank canvas, I...
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Raffles Business Symposium 2020: Food Wastage
By Clarice Tan (21A01C) and Neo Xin Yuan (21A01D) Like all other events in 2020, the Raffles Business Symposium (RBS) took a different form this year. Hosted entirely on a Zoom video conference call...
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Prelude To Our Bicentennial: Rethinking Raffles
By Matthew Ethan Ramli (21S03F) and Thet Hninn Zin (21A13A) Behind the grand piano at the Yusof Ishak Block atrium lies a room that not many know about. Commonly thought of as just another storage...
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CCA Previews ’21: Sailing
By Young Yun Xuan (21S06L), Captain, Jonathan Lio (21S06D), Vice-Captain, and Amadea Hong (21S03J), Vice-Captain Have you ever wondered how many of the seven continents the mere seven of us have been...
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CCA Previews ’21: Chinese Orchestra
By Damien Low (21S06A), Chairperson and Justinian Guan (21S03F), Vice-Chairperson Even if you’ve never watched a Chinese Orchestra performance, you probably think you know what a Chinese Orchestra...
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CCA Previews ’21: Soccer (Girls)
By Insyirah Iman (21A13A), Captain and Fatema Maimoon (21S05A), Vice-Captain Have you ever wondered why soccer is often referred to as ‘the beautiful game’? It could be because of the vital,...
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CCA Previews ’21: Art Club
By Raffles Art Club Do you enjoy doodling on your math tutorials? Have you always dreamt of interacting with like-minded artist friends? Or are you looking for opportunities to hone your artistic...
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CCA Previews ’21: Raffles Players
By Lee Rui Xuan (21A01C), Chairperson, Celine Yang (21A01A), Secretary, and Tiffany Li (21A13B), Quartermistress What do you think of when you hear “Players”? The first thing that comes to your mind...
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CCA Previews ’21: Ultimate Frisbee
By Ultimate Frisbee Over the years, people have referred to us as many things: Frisbee, Performing Arts Club, Jock CCA… But we prefer to refer to ourselves as Raffles Ultimate (RJU). Because Ultimate...
View ArticleCCA Previews ’21: History and Strategic Affairs Society
By Russell Choy (21A01B), Mikail Firas (21S06E), and Teo Jie Xuan (21S030) HSTA is more than just a CCA about ideas and speeches—it is about diplomacy. It is about those moments when you find yourself...
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CCA Previews ’21: Soccer (Boys)
By Soccer (Boys) Though football may not have the history and heritage like rugby or have the flashiest achievements hockey attained in the past few years, never let that alter your perception of...
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