Not all exchanges go smoothly. Ryan Quek recounts a trip to Spain during his exchange where he loses almost all his belongings, and he shares tips on how to deal with such an ordeal, or better still, avoid such a predicament.
The College Students’ Committee (CSC) recently launched a project to gather views on Senior Selection from the student body and to understand how seniors contribute to Tembusu. Isaac Neo, who volunteered as a focus group leader for some of the discussions, reflects on the feedback received.
As Singapore prepares to commemorate the bicentennial anniversary of Sir Stamford Raffles’s arrival in January 1819, Jonathan turns to an unlikely source of historical knowledge: The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye. In this article, he reflects on the politics of remembering and forgetting, and on the form and content of Singaporean public memory.
One and a half months since the 9th College Students’ Committee (CSC) took office, Treehouse speaks to the 8th CSC President Zachary Fong, a final-year pharmacy student, on life after stepping down from office and his thoughts on our Home of Possibilities.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a town hall dialogue titled “Canada and Asia in a Changing World” at NUS on 15 November. Here’s a list of questions Bryan Kwa prepared but didn’t get to ask.
The article aims to shed some light on this hermit nation- the DPRK (“North Korea”). Instead of a day-to-day account of my 8-day trip to North Korea that will probably bore everyone, with the benefit of hindsight, I believe that the key takeaways can be distilled into 4 significant and interesting observations.
