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CCA Previews ’22: Raffles Photographic Society
Reading Time: 3 minutes

By Lim Yuan Ren (22S03P), Chairman, Matthew Tan (22S03Q), Vice-Chairman and Ryan Tong (22S03A), Quartermaster

Attend one of our school’s events, and you may just feel the weight of a lens pointing right at you! We are a community of photographers with a passion for our craft. 

As Percy W. Harris once remarked, “skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase”. In Raffles Photographic Society, we aim to hone our members’ photography skills and inculcate values such as creativity and passion for learning through fun and enriching CCA sessions! 

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CCA Previews ’22: Raffles Rock
Reading Time: 4 minutes

By Moey Yik Yang (22S03A), Chairperson, Justin Chua Jun Jie (22S06L), Vice-Chairperson, Cheung Wing Lam Cyan (22S03P), Secretary, Josh Koh Jun Yong (22S06R), Quartermaster

Hey there! We’re Raffles Rock, RI’s very own rock band. To clarify, we have nothing to do with stones or boulders. We don’t do any climbing either. But if you’ve ever dreamt of being a rockstar, you’ve come to the right place!

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CCA Previews ’22: Chinese Orchestra
Reading Time: 5 minutes

By RICO (Y5-6) EXCO ’22

What is a Chinese Orchestra? At first thought, one might think of the loud crashing sounds of cymbals and the shrieking trumpet noises heard during Chinese New Year. Come visit RICO, and you’ll discover that it is so much more! Raffles Institution Chinese Orchestra (Y5-6), or RICO for short, isn’t your typical Chinese orchestra. We are a 60-member orchestra, where all of us are musicians brought together by our passion for making music, especially Chinese music!

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Raffles Reviews – National Knick Knacks

Reading Time: 4 minutesby Calista Chong (18A01A), Grace Lau (18S03I), Sheryl Gwee (18A01D)
with guest contributions by Harshini Rayasam (18S06B), Sun Shuwei (18A01E) from Writer’s Guild

This year, Raffles Reviews is honoured to receive books and support from the Literature-loving folks over at Singapore’s beloved local bookstore, BooksActually!

We thought we couldn’t be happier receiving books from our favourite independent bookstore until the folks from Writer’s Guild – RI’s very own club for all things Lit –agreed to contribute to these monthly reviews.

In this joint effort to promote Singaporean Literature, we have reviewed three local books from BooksActually, and our Guild collaborators have recommended a SingLit Pick of the Month for our beloved readers.

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Right on Track: Track Finals 2017

Reading Time: 6 minutesBy Bill Puah (17S06B), Nerissa Loe (17A13A), Zara Karimi (18A01A), Marilyn Kang (17A01B), and Catherine Zou (17A01B)

Photos by Raffles Photographic Society and Loh Yuan Yee

With their peers cheering them on, the finalists took to the track at the National Stadium on 28 April, each hoping to deliver their best performance of the season. Despite the rowdiness of the crowd and the overwhelming uncertainty, the athletes still glowed with confidence and stood elegantly in front of the crowd.

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