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What Does It Mean to Remember Nanjing?
Reading Time: 7 minutes

By Jaden Lum (26S05A)

December 13, 1937 
Nanjing, China
Morning

Just five months into the Second Sino-Japanese War, and China’s capital has already fallen.

Alas, as Japanese forces march in, roughly a quarter of Nanjing’s one million residents remain. Many are terrified civilians who simply could not flee in time. Women. Children. The elderly. Non-combatants who prayed that the worst of the fighting was now perhaps over. After all, soldiers were supposed to kill soldiers, not civilians—not them. 

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Arts, Op-Eds, Opinion

Identity in the Undistinguished: Singapore Writers Festival 2025
Reading Time: 5 minutes

By Koh Shin Robbie (26A01A)

Identity is not a monolith. In our own self-identity lies many markers at play that, when met with the social conditions of today, create unique lived experiences for each of us. 

Whether we recognise it, these experiences are presented to us in all facets of our lives, across space and time—from the railways of Seoul to HDB void decks, even to the streets of 1960s Singapore. It is then often through such unseen little snippets of life that one’s expression of identity takes shape. Across the various panels in this year’s Singapore Writers Festival, this theme became apparent.

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Features, Op-Eds, Opinion, Raffles Reviews

A Shot at Capturing Singapore’s Best Photobooths
Reading Time: 6 minutes

By Ariann Khoo (26S06B), Christian Adriel Tan (26S07B) and Tara Teo (26A01D)

Special thanks to Teng Yifan (26S06H) and Nicole Lee (26S05A)

There’s something charmingly spontaneous about the photobooth experience. 

Whether it’s a flagship outlet at a shopping mall or tucked away in a discreet part of an alleyway, the sight of a photobooth always sparks a flicker of excitement. One moment you may just be walking by, and moments later you’re crammed into a tiny booth, fumbling with props as the flash goes off. In seconds, your strip prints out, displaying that moment of chaos or authenticity.

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Op-Eds, Opinion

No one Mourns the Performative Male: A Reflection
Reading Time: 4 minutes

By: Koh Shin Robbie (26A01A) and Tara Sim Yue (26A01C)

The term “performative male” is one that has been inescapable for the past few months—uttered from the lips of the friends around us and a hot topic of conversation in every corner of the internet, the performative male has become an iconic caricature on social media of a specific archetype of men.

Known for drinking matcha lattes, wearing wired earphones while they listen to Beabadoobee and Clairo, and reading feminist literature, why is this particular breed of men being metaphorically pelted with tomatoes?

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Commentary, Op-Eds, Opinion

Signing Off: Graduation ‘25 
Reading Time: 5 minutes

By Betty Ding (25A01B), Cayla Goh (25A01B), Isaac Chan (25A01B)

Everything about this article feels a little messy. At this point, most of us Y6s would have already hung up our signed shirts from graduation, yet we’re still hung up on it, trying to find the words to wrap up two years that were anything but tidy. 

Maybe that’s what makes this article so hard to write: JC life was never built for clean conclusions. Between the chaos of orientation, the blur of CCA activities, and the endless rhythm of lectures, there was always another moment, another memory, another deadline. So how do we even begin to say goodbye to something that never really paused long enough to be captured?

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