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Aiming For The Podium: Badminton NSG 2026
Reading Time: 10 minutes

By Dara Tan (27A01A) and Sean Loh (27S06I)

Photographs courtesy of Tay Kai-En, Othniel (27S03Q) from RAPS

This year, both the boys and the girls of the RI badminton team arrived at the OCBC Arena Badminton Courts to battle it out for 3rd place. 

For the girls, it was a strong comeback after they failed to reach the Top 4 last year. For the boys, it was not the ideal placement they had hoped for. Yet, both were aiming for the same outcome.

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Boomerang: Cricket NSG 2026 
Reading Time: 6 minutes

By Prajna Girish (27S06O) and Harish Arun Prasad (27S05B)

All photographs provided by Zhu Taiwu (26S06K)


The Coin Toss

3 games against VJC this year. 2 losses for RI’s Cricket Team. But they earned their redemption just in time. 

The air in Ceylon Sports Club was hot and engulfing—not just because temperatures were crossing 34°C, but because tensions were thick enough to slice with a knife. 

“Everyone was charged up and ready to make a statement when it mattered the most.” 

Swarit Thakur (27S05B)

After a relatively-good NSG run, both the VJC and RI players were warming up—rehearsing batting motions and lobbing balls, while spectators took to the stands for the match that would determine the 2026 champion after multiple face-offs. For the RI team, the stakes were especially high. They had to defend their title from last year, didn’t they?

The coin was tossed, RI was batting first. The first ball landed on the pitch, and the finals had officially begun. 

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More than a Medal: Touch Rugby Girls NSG 2026
Reading Time: 6 minutes

By Olivia Chia (27A01A) and Kate Suzuki Kokomi (27A01A)

All photos courtesy of Fang Rui Shan (26S06R) and Ayyaatharan Srinivasan (26S06D) from the Raffles Art and Photographic Society

23 April 2026

The original day of the match kicked off at Hwa Chong Institution to the flashing of orange lightning alert signals and a drizzle that soaked the parade square ground where we sat with the supporters. The fate of the match dangled in the fickle hands of the rain; the game had been suspended and, if the lightning alert didn’t stop flashing by 4:30pm, would be cancelled. Suddenly having a lot of time on our hands, we descended the stairs to find the RI Touch Rugby team surprisingly coolheaded, scattered across a few canteen tables snacking on gummy cola bottles. 

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Commentary, Culture, Op-Eds, Opinion, School Life

The Case for Google Apps : Why They Are *Objectively* Better (For School)
Reading Time: 7 minutes

By Dara Tan (27A01A)

I nearly screamed aloud on the first day of orientation, in the middle of the lecture hall, with all of the 300-odd new JC students there. 

Why? The new school emails had just been passed out to all of us, and to my abject horror, we would be using Outlook. As a pure Google user, I was miserable. I would have to download all of the Microsoft apps (OneNote, Word, Excel etc.) and get used to an entirely new ecosystem. 

But then I stopped panicking for a while, and thought, Maybe Microsoft is just a JC thing. Maybe it isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Maybe I can like it. (Spoiler alert, the answer was a vehement no.)

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Chamber Ensemble Concert 2026: Reminisce 
Reading Time: 4 minutes

By Joshua Gerrard Tan (27A01A) and Tran My Linh (27A01B)

All images courtesy of Raffles Art and Photographic Society

To reminisce is an act most of us are all too familiar with: walking down memory lane, reflecting on our past experiences, past friends and past troubles, and the life that has shaped us into who we are today. It is this feeling, a mix of joy, melancholy and love, that Raffles Institution Chamber Ensemble (RICE) sought to evoke in their audience for their 2026 Annual Concert, Concert Reminisce. 

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