Compilations, Cross Island Impressions, School Life

CII 2023: School Culture — Perspectives from EJC, RGS and NUSH
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By Zachary Seah (NUS High), Charlize Ong (NUS High), Ng Le Kang (EJC), Sophia Chiang Yue Ying (EJC), and Chloe Loe (RGS)

This video is part of the 5th Edition of Cross Island Impressions. CII is a national student paper written by student journalists across Singapore. This year’s edition will comprise publications from teams spanning 8 different schools: DHS, EJC, HCI, NJC, NUSH, RGS, RI, and VJC. Each team of writers collaborated to produce a video and a photojournalistic article. Come read the 5th Edition of CII here, and watch the videos here!

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Compilations, Cross Island Impressions, School Life

CII 2023: Runway or Run Away?
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By Johnathan Lim Yang Kai (23S03M), Ng Cheng Jie (NUS High), Rebecca Yap Jia Xin (EJC), Ryan Goh Chan Khee (EJC), and Venkatesan Vidya Laxmi (RGS)

This video is part of the 5th Edition of Cross Island Impressions. CII is a national student paper written by student journalists across Singapore. This year’s edition will comprise publications from teams spanning 8 different schools: DHS, EJC, HCI, NJC, NUSH, RGS, RI, and VJC. Each team of writers collaborated to produce a video and a photojournalistic article. Come read the 5th Edition of CII here, and watch the videos here!

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Compilations, Cross Island Impressions, School Life

CII 2023: Old and New Media — Our Lives
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By Cao Yuhan (24S03M), Shaylea Ng (RGS), Jagriti Panda (NJC), Jayita Vutukuru (NJC), and Saksham Arora (VJC)

This video is part of the 5th Edition of Cross Island Impressions. CII is a national student paper written by student journalists across Singapore. This year’s edition will comprise publications from teams spanning 8 different schools: DHS, EJC, HCI, NJC, NUSH, RGS, RI, and VJC. Each team of writers collaborated to produce a video and a photojournalistic article. Come read the 5th Edition of CII here, and watch the videos here!

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Music Reviews, Opinion, Raffles Reviews

Alternative Rock and Its Many Faces
Reading Time: 8 minutes

By Tang Lanyun (23S05A)

Alternative rock isn’t so much a genre as it is an attitude. Emerging from the underground punk scene of the 70s, alt-rock lacks a defining sound; rather, it is characterised by its independent ethos and scepticism toward the mainstream. 

Though its acts rarely experience the whirlwind fame of their commercial contemporaries, over the years a few have managed to attain cult status, whose albums endure in music’s collective memory.

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Op-Eds, Opinion, Student Issues

Let’s Talk: The Definition of Success
Reading Time: 5 minutes

By Venkatesan Ranjana (23A01D)

There is undoubtedly a voice within you preaching that ten years from now, you should be on a perfect trajectory to becoming the top in your field, attaining widespread recognition and numerous accolades. What is worth examining for many of us is whether there is another voice—which may be slightly quieter, or raving more loudly—that questions the first.

That first voice represents what we can refer to as the typical Rafflesian path of success, in which the only definition of success deemed acceptable is three-fold: regard, position, and service.  

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