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Giant Odds, Not So Giant Squad: Basketball Boys’ NSG 2025 
Reading Time: 6 minutes

By Georgia Ong (26S03O), Tomi Peh (26S06P) 

Photographs courtesy of Sriram Tharaneetharan (25S06Q), Fang Rui Shan (26S06R), Chew Rui-Yan (26S03N), Aarika Soin (26S03H), Poh Le Yang (26S03F) and Zhu Tai Wu (26S06K) from RIAC unless otherwise stated.

They were knocked out in the Preliminary Group Stage last year. 

And the year before that. And the year before that. 

The Raffles Basketball Boys’ Team last won the A Division Championships in 2016, and they had been no favourite to win this year. Being one of the shortest basketball teams in the A Division, they opened their 2025 season on 9 April with a loss against ACSI. 

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Commentary, Internationally Speaking

“You Need To Know The Truth”: Lim Bo Seng Memorial Lecture 2025
Reading Time: 8 minutes

By Kunchur Bharat (26A01B)

Cast your mind back to your lower secondary History lessons for a moment. The phrases “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”, “banana money”, and “did not ATQ” may bring back horrific memories of poring over stacks of notes, trying to cram every last detail into your brain, or sacrificing legibility for speed as you raced against the clock to finish the Source-Based Case Study. 

Or, perhaps, the dread that set in as you weighed two conflicting interpretations and wondered which was the “correct” one? Indeed, history is written (and taught and examined) by the victors — so what do the losers have to say? And why are they worth listening to, if at all?

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CCA Events, Clubs, Commentary, Features, Movie Reviews, School Life

Firsts and Lasts: Raffles Crew Film Showcase 2025
Reading Time: 8 minutes

By Betty Ding (25A01B)

All photographs courtesy of RIAC and Mr Tay Li Cheng, screenshots courtesy of Raffles Crew.

This is the first — and quite possibly the last — Raffles Crew Film Showcase.

To clarify: this is the first-ever showcase by Raffles Crew, one of the newly merged CCAs formed in 2025 from the union of Audio Visual Unit and Raffles Film Society. Titled “Facets”, this year’s film showcase proudly presents six original films from filmmakers past and present – including two thesis films by the final batch of Raffles Film Society.

There was a palpable buzz in the PAC on the 30th of May: friends and family have come together in anticipation to watch what has been in the works for many months. As the lights dimmed and a pre-show montage of the graduating batch of Film Soc played, a hush fell over the audience, all eyes fixed on the screen as they awaited the first thesis film.

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CCA Events, Clubs, School Life, What We Do

Pressing Ahead 2025: Re-defining Student Journalism
Reading Time: 9 minutes

By Gladys Koh (26A01B) and Kunchur Bharat (26A01B)

In 2025, Pressing Ahead marks its ninth year. Similar to 2024’s edition, we kicked off our Saturday bright and early at 8.30 am. This year, we were fortunate to have with us guests from Victoria Junior College, Eunoia Junior College, River Valley High School, Hwa Chong Institution, Catholic Junior College, Dunman High School, and NUS High School of Mathematics and Science, who brought with them a shared spirit of collaboration and passion for journalism. 

However, that’s where the similarities end this year. Unlike previous editions, this year’s theme, “Elevating and Amplifying Student Journalism”, was not about preparing students for a career in professional journalism. Instead, it focused on providing opportunities to strengthen student publications as platforms for showcasing unique perspectives and uncovering stories that go unnoticed. 

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Arts, CCA Events, School Life

Love, Death and Reindeer: Raffles Chorale SYF 2025
Reading Time: 5 minutes

By Keng Yi, Nicole (25S03S)

As a chorus of voices rise and fill the Concert Hall of the School of the Arts (SOTA), the world seems to dim to the warm limelight of the stage. 

But for the performers on it, these next fifteen minutes will be “almost inconsequential”—compared to the hours of preparation that came before it, the climax itself feels, well, anticlimactic. 

Being onstage is very forgettable… you’re so laser-focused into delivering everything that it almost doesn’t feel real—like you enter a trance and wake up as the last note resounds. 

The 15 minutes onstage is forgettable; the journey is not, and all the pain, joy, and belonging is the real SYF to me.

Isaac Chan (25A01B), Chairperson of Raffles Chorale
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