By Rugby
Most people associate the Raffles Ruggers with their loud presence in the canteen, record high number of conduct slips, excessively taped shoulders and knees and random outbreaks of side stepping while they are walking to class (as prescribed by Coach Mark Lee to improve the “art of breaking one’s ankles”). Well, we are that and a whole lot more.
By Hazel Wong (20S03P), Girls’ Captain, and Muhammad A’qil (20S06T), Boys’ Vice-Captain
The rush of the wind battering their faces is like a slap to the face. The dry-fit jersey that caresses their bodies subtly flutters in the wind. The carbon fiber that embodies the mound of their sticks radiates energy beyond comprehension. Their muscles are tense, their vision is fixed. The voices of everyone around them is drowned out by a tsunami of concentration. Ferocity lives within their veins.
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By Tay Jing Xuan (20S03C), Li Fangqing (20S03A), and Audra Chua (20S06S)
“So, what’s the difference between Writers’ Guild and Raffles Press?” We hear this all too often.
To be fair, mixing us up with Press is all too easy—RJ has two writing-centric CCAs, a number so small it might as well be one, and to many, the lines between various written genres seem fine and blurred. So let’s put it this way—Raffles Press deals with journalism and the covering of school events, while we, Writers’ Guild, deal with the more literary and creative end of the spectrum.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Ashley Lee Shi Hui (20S03N) and Gee Qi Hao (20S07B)
The fastest racket sport in the world. There’s nothing like engaging in an intense rally, chasing the shuttlecock from corner to corner… If this sounds like something for you, read on! Continue reading “CCA Previews ’20: Badminton “
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Natasha Ong (20S03R), Chairperson and Shao Yang (20S06J), Academics IC
It has been said that astronomy is a lonely endeavour, a soul-searching in the pitch dark of night of some remote corner of the Earth under the embrace of the starry sky. Well, it is certainly an inimitable pleasure for many of us to marvel at the grandeur at the night sky—to partake in the oldest of all the natural sciences, to look up at the very same stars our hominid ancestors must have wondered at hundreds, thousands, even millions of years ago. It is then frequently asked: What use is this pointless pursuit in one of the most light-polluted, busiest cities on Earth where all we see at night are street lamps, shopping malls, and tutorials? It may seem to many that astronomy is completely disconnected from the hustle and bustle of our fast-paced lives, and you’d be forgiven for thinking as such. Continue reading “CCA Previews ’20: Astronomy Club”
