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Cover Photo by Georges Ip of the Photographic Society
Let’s face it: Rafflesians have tics. Getting rid of some of them will probably go some way to making you a better person. Unfortunately, that also involves a measure of sacrifice in your social life while you’re still 17 or 18 and think the world is your oyster (even if your conception of the world is in a walled up compound planted on Marymount).
The guest writer of this article has requested to remain anonymous.
Most honest Rafflesians will admit that paying attention during Assembly isn’t something they do very well. By the end of the school year, they just seem to blend into one long and fairly undifferentiated stream of waffled words, pleasant performances and boring briefings. Every now and again, however, there are moments in Assembly that do remain stuck somewhere in the recesses of our minds.
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By Law May Ning (14S03O)
Cover Photo by Georges Ip of the Photographic Society
A couple of days ago, my family and I ended up babysitting my 3 year old cousin. Decked in a baby blue dress and a matching pseudo-pearl necklace, the irresistibly adorable little girl pranced into the house and waved at me. “P-ween-cess,” she mumbled happily, pointing to the Snow White plastered on the front of her dress, a shy smile on her face. Continue reading ““Rafflesian” Doesn’t Mean Perfect”
By Lea Tan (14S06B)
We all have those classmates. The ones who disappear into the EWBIS block for a few hours at a time, two or three times a week, maybe more. We see them in the canteen at six pm, drinking murky protein shakes, muscles clearly defined under sleeves, sitting around talking about hyphy mud and 90kg cleans. The things we hear and the sights we see conjure a formidable stereotype in the eyes of the ‘mundane crowd’: that of the Raffles gymmer. Continue reading “Gym Rats and Scaredy-Cats”
By Lee Chin Wee (14A01B)
Did you know that every day, more than 22,000 African children die of acute malnutrition? Or that there are over 450 patients on the National Kidney Waiting List here in Singapore? Or that for a patient diagnosed with leukemia or lymphoma, the odds of finding a match from the existing registry of volunteer bone marrow donors is 1 in 20,000? Chances are, you do – every day, we find ourselves bombarded by messages from the latest social advocacy campaign, fighting to grab our attention. We memorize these facts all the time, so they can be regurgitated in the middle of a GP Exam. We walk past posters bearing these sobering statistics without so much as batting an eyelid. Continue reading “How to Save a Life: Hope for Tomarrow 2013”
